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§ 13] Orders; in each class the separate questions must be taken up in their exact order, the one first assigned to the day or hour taking precedence of one afterwards assigned to the same day or hour. (A motion to take up a particular part of the Orders of the Day, or a certain question, is not a privileged motion). Any of the subjects, when taken up, instead of being then considered, can be assigned to some other time, a majority being competent to postpone even a Special Order.

The Form of this question, as put by the Chair when the proper time arrives, or on the call of a member, is, “Shall the Orders of the Day be taken up?” or, “Will the assembly now proceed to the Orders of the Day?”

The Effect of an affirmative vote, on a call for the Orders of the Day, is to remove the question under consideration from before the assembly, the same as if it had been interrupted by an adjournment [§ 11].

The Effect of a negative vote is to dispense with the orders merely so far as they interfere with the consideration of the question then before the assembly.

A common case of Orders of the Day is where an assembly has adopted an order of