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 but a two-thirds vote can immediately suppress it by ordering the previous question [29]. This is the only difference between the two classes of main motions. The following list contains some of the most common Incidental Main Motions. Accept or Adopt a Report upon a subject referred to a committee 54

Adjourn at, or to, a future time 17

Adjourn, if qualified in any way, or to adjourn when the effect is to dissolve the assembly with no provision for its reconvening 17 Appoint the Time and Place for the next meeting, if introduced when no business is pending 16 Amend the Constitution, By-laws, Standing Rules, or Resolutions, etc., already adopted 68

Ratify or Confirm action taken 39

Rescind or Repeal action taken 37 All of these motions are essentially main motions, and are treated as such, though they may appear otherwise.

Though a question of privilege is of high rank so far as interrupting a pending question is concerned, yet when the question has interrupted business and is pending, it is treated as a main motion so far as having incidental and subsidiary motions applied to it. So an order of the day, even though a special order, after it has been taken up is treated in the same way, as is also a question that has been reconsidered.