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38 business for the day, specifying the hour at which each question shall be considered. When the hour appointed for taking up the second question has arrived, the Chairman should announce that fact, and, if no one objects, immediately put to vote the questions before the assembly, and state the question next to be considered. Should any member object to this, the Chairman should at once submit to the assembly a question like this: “Will the assembly now proceed to consider [here state the subject], which was assigned to this hour?” While a programme, as here supposed, does not state the fact, yet its very form implies that at the expiration of the time allowed any subject, all the questions then pending shall be put to vote. Still, as it takes a formal vote, except by unanimous consent, to proceed originally to the Orders of the Day, so a formal vote is necessary if any one objects, to take up the next order, and close discussion on the one pending.

A Question of Order takes precedence of the