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60 32. When no other business is before the meeting, a motion to adjourn may be amended. When it supersedes the pending question, it must simply be to "adjourn," without any particular day added, and cannot be amended.

33. A motion to adjourn, except to a day certain, is not debatable.

34. A motion to lie on the table decided affirmatively, removes the matter before the meeting, until by a motion and vote it be again taken up.

35. A motion to lie on the table cannot be amended, nor can it be debated.

36. When a member moves the previous question, and this is seconded, the Chair must immediately put the question: "Shall the main question be now put?" A negative decision suppresses the main question for the day. If decided in the affirmative, the main question is to be put immediately.

37. A motion for the previous question cannot be amended or debated.

38. A motion to postpone to a day certain may be amended by substituting one day for another.

39. A subject should be deferred to a committee when more careful consideration is required than can be given in the meeting. A subject may also be re-committed.

40. A motion to commit or recommit may be amended by substituting one committee for another, by altering the numbers, or by instructions.

41. In form, an amendment may be made by: (1) Inserting or adding certain words; (2) striking out certain words; (3) striking out certain words, and inserting or adding others.

42. An amendment may be amended, but an amendment to an amendment cannot be amended.