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82 quarterly. In other organizations, such as convections, if not called up previously its effect ends with the session. Thus, if an ordinary society has adopted a resolution directing a certain bill to be paid and the motion to reconsider is made, the order is suspendend until the close of the next session unless the reconsideration is called up previously and acted upon. No motion can be reconsidered twice unless it has been materially amended since its first reconsideration. It requires only a majority vote to reconsider a motion even though that motion requires a two-thirds vote for its adoption. A list of the motions that cannot be reconsidered will be found on page 172. [For fuller explanation of this motion, see R. O. R., pages 156-168.]

Reconsider and Have Entered on the Minutes. This form of the motion to reconsider can be made even after the motion to reconsider has been made but only on the day the vote which it is proposed to reconsider was taken. It can be applied only to a vote adopting, or rejecting, or postponing indefinitely a main question. It is designed, and its effect is, simply to protect the assembly from the action of a temporary majority in an unrepresentative meeting which is opposed to the will of the real majority. Its name should not be construed to imply that the ordinary motion to reconsider is not entered on the minutes, but it is a condensed form of a motion to reconsider the vote and have the motion entered on the minutes to be called up at the next meeting.