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Rh motion to adjourn, for example, cannot be laid on the table, postponed, committed or amended].

(6) The effect of the motion if adopted, whenever it could possibly be misunderstood.

(7) The form of stating the question when peculiar, and all other information necessary to enable one to understand the question.

Part II is a Parliamentary Primer, giving very simple illustrations of the methods of organizing and conducting different kinds of meetings, stating the very words used by the chairman and speakers in making and putting various motions; it also gives briefly, the duties of the officers, and forms of minutes, and of reports of the treasurer and committees; it classifies the motions into eight classes according to their object, and then takes up separately each class and compares those in it, showing under what circumstances each motion should be used.

Part III consists of a few pages devoted to miscellaneous matters that should be understood by members of deliberative assemblies, such as the important but commonly misunderstood subjects of the Legal Rights of Deliberative Assemblies and Ecclesiastical Tribunals, etc.

In addition to the terms defined above (taking precedence of, yielding to and applying to, see p. 18), there are other terms that are liable to be misunderstood, to which attention should be called.

Meeting and Session. For the distinction between these terms, see first note to § 42.