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§ 112
Amendment of Amendment.
111

sponding alteration in the preamble. Finally, the subject should be adopted as a whole.

AMENDMENT OF AN AMENDMENT.

112. When an amendment is offered and the amendment is not satisfactory the amendment may be amended by moving an amendment to the amendment; but in order to avoid confusion and to facilitate business there must be some limit to the number of pending amendments. Therefore, practice has placed this limit at one primary amendment and one secondary amendment (or amendment of the amendment). If, however, after the secondary amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, or after the amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, other amendments would be in order, which may also be adopted or rejected, and so on until the assembly is satisfied, because since a resolution or motion may require many amendments to express the deliberate judgment of the assembly, the only limit to the number of amendments that may be made