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§ 4 ''Pending. Ordered. A proposition or motion is said to be pending'' after it has been stated to the assembly by the presiding officer, and until a vote has been taken on it, or until it has been at least temporarily disposed of. After the vote on the question is taken, if in the affirmative, it is then ordered.

Yields to. When the pending motion may be forced to give way to another it is said to yield to that motion.

Applies to. One motion is said to apply to another when it may be used for the purpose of changing or disposing of it.

''Meeting. Session.'' For a distinction between these terms see Sec. 29.  

4. Wherever a number of persons are assembled for the transaction of business the first business necessary is to organize by providing suitable officers, so that the assembly may conduct its business with dig-