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64 ment to a motion has been either adopted or rejected, and then a vote taken on the motion as amended, it is not in order to reconsider the vote on the amendment until after the vote on the original motion has been reconsidered. If the Previous Question [§ 20] has been partly executed, it cannot be reconsidered. If anything which the assembly cannot reverse has been done as the result of a vote, then that vote cannot be reconsidered.

The Effect of making this motion is to suspend all action that the original motion would have required until the reconsideration is acted upon; but if it is not called up, its effect terminates with the session [§ 42], provided, that in an assembly having regular meetings as often as monthly, if there is not held upon another day an adjourned meeting of the one at which the reconsideration was moved, its effect shall not terminate till the close of the next succeeding session [see note at end of this section]. But the reconsideration of an Incidental [§ 8] or Subsidiary [§ 7] Motion (except where the vote to be re-