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§ 82 It may, however, be interrupted by a question of privilege (87) [if requiring immediate action] or by a point of order (32). It may be either a privilege or an unprivileged motion, and it may be debatable or undebatable, according to the circumstances under which it is moved. For example, if the privileged motion to adjourn (83) had been made, and no time or place for reassembling had been previously determined by vote or rule, then the motion to fix the time or place would be a highly privileged motion, taking precedence of, but not cutting off, the unqualified motion to adjourn, and it “must be first acted upon,” but when it interrupts the undebatable motion “to adjourn,” while it may be amended by changing the time or place of meeting it must be decided without debate.

82. It is in order even after a vote to adjourn has been taken if the result of the vote on the motion to adjourn has not been announced by the chair, but it does not have privilege over a motion for a recess already pending, and cannot be repeated without in-