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34 sembly, or any of its members, take precedence of all other questions, except the two preceding, to which they yield. If the question is one requiring immediate action it can Interrupt a member’s speech. When such a question is raised the Chairman decides whether it is a question of privilege or not, from which decision an appeal [§ 14] can be taken by any two members.

It is not necessary that the assembly take final action upon the question of privilege when it is raised—it may be referred to a committee [§ 22], or laid on the table [§ 19], or it may have any other subsidiary [§ 7] motion applied to it, and in such case the subsidlary motion is exhausted on it without affecting the question interrupted by the question of privilege. As soon as the latter is disposed of, the assembly resumes the consideration of the question which it interrupted.

A call for the Orders of the Day takes precedence of every other motion, excepting to Reconsider [§ 27], and the three preceding, to which latter three it yields, and is not debatable, nor can it be amended. It does not require to be seconded,