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34 troduced when any question is before the assembly. In order to insure correctness instating, and to prevent a misunderstanding of a complicated motion, the mover of any principal motion or resolution must (if requested by the presiding officer) submit it in writing. It requires to be seconded (for exceptions see Sec. 76), and is not before the assembly for debate until it has been stated by the chair.

By parliamentary courtesy the member upon whose motion a subject is brought before the assembly is first given the floor. In case of the report of a committee this courtesy is extended to the member who presents the report.

28. If a principal motion be indefinitely postponed (122), or rejected, it cannot be brought up again at that session, except by a motion to reconsider (135) the vote by which it was postponed or rejected; this rule applies also to the equivalent of, or to the negative of that motion. But, inasmuch, as one assembly cannot dictate to or