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Motions, continued

withdrawal of 55, loi

Necessity for rules xi

Nominating ballot 148-152, 154

committee 154-156

Nominations 3, 17, 153-157

motions relating to 97, 146

Objection to consideration of a question 95, 133

Obtaining the floor 5, 17, 21

Order, question or point of 37, 53, 92, in, 145, 153

of precedence of motions (Chart I) 166

of business 123

Orders of the day 86

general 86

special 87

Organization of an occasional or mass meeting 3, 16

Parliamentary inquiry 18, 100, 105, 147

Parliamentary law, definition xii

elementary rules that all should know xiv

Pending motion, definition 9, 12

immediately 13

Point of order [see Question of Order]

Plurality .' 141

Polls, to open and to close 139

Possession of the Assembly, In the 12

Postpone to a certain time 70

Postpone indefinitely 14, 22

Preamble 11, 20

President, duties of 113

vice, duties of 115

Previous question 72, 75, 108

exhaustion of 75

Privileged motions 6, 86-91, 166

Putting a question 9

Question of order 37, 53, 92, in, 145, 153

of privilege 64, 88

stating the 9

putting the 9

Quorum 122

Reading Papers 102

Recess, take a 89, 109