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164 closes the meeting as usual. No motion to adjourn is made, nor have members a right to introduce questions. When the president has brought up a question, a few remarks may be allowed and members may make subsidiary motions to dispose of it, but it must be remembered that this is only a semi-deliberative assembly. If ordinary debate is desired, the rules may be suspended for the purpose of debate by a two-thirds vote, as shown on page 94, or an adjourned meeting may be appointed at which the question may be considered. No minutes are read at such meetings, but the secretary should keep a memorandum of the business transacted which should be entered in the Minute Book and be read and approved at the next regular business meeting.

In many societies of the kind here referred to, the rules allow members to be received at any regular meeting. In such cases the membership committee should inform the president in advance that it has a report to make. The president calls on the committee for its report, usually just before the close of the meeting, and action is then taken.