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 PUBLISHER'S ADVERTISEMENT.

This new edition of Cushing's Parliamentary Manual has been put in type from a copy of the original edition, (now out of copyright), and is identical in matter with the present Boston edition, excepting three or four pages of comments by the author's brother, which do not modify the text, nor present any new rule of proceeding or debate. The Manual was so thorough and complete, as it came from the hands of its author, that any attempt to revise it in conformity with arbitrary statutes, or rules made for a particular purpose, but having no universal application to parliamentary law, would be not only presumptuous, but lead to confusion. The additional notes, however, which are enclosed In brackets, will be found useful, and will make this edition more valuable than any other. Several topics and new forms not treated by Mr. Cushing have been introduced.