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@ This sign indicates that the motion which it precedes can be amended. The other motions cannot be amended.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; A single underscore shows that the motion is debatable. Motions not underscored are undebatable.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; A double underscore shows that the motion is debatable, and that at the same time the pending main motion is open to debate.

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp; A single broken underscore shows that the motion is sometimes debatable and sometimes undebatable. Thus, to Amend is debatable only when the motion to be amended is debatable, and an Appeal can be debated except when it relates to indecorum, or to the transgression of the rules of speaking, or to the priority of business, or if made while the immediately pending question is undebatable or during a division of the assembly.

A double broken underscore, which is used only for the motion to Reconsider,  shows that the motion is debatable whenever the motion to" be reconsidered is debatable; and, also, that when debatable the question to be reconsidered is at the same time open to debate.

2/3. A motion followed by 2/3 requires a two-thirds vote for its adoption, the other motions requiring only a majority vote. In the case of an objection to the consideration of a question, since the question is put on the consideration, and not on the objection to the consideration, a 2/3 vote in the negative is required to prevent the consideration.

2/3? This sign shows that the motion preceding it requires a 2/3 vote unless previous notice of the motion has been given, in which case it requires only a majority.

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