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PRIVILEGED MOTIONS.
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taken up at the next succeeding session previous to new business, and treated the same as if there had been no adjournment [see § 44 for its place in the order of business]. Provided that, in a body elected for a definite time (as a board of directors elected for one year), unfinished business shall fall to the ground with the expiration of the term for which the board or any portion of them were elected.

(c) When the adjournment closes a session in an assembly which does not meet more frequently than once a year, or when the assembly is an elective body, and this session ends the term of a portion of the members, the adjournment shall put an end to all business unfinished at the close of the session. The business can be introduced at the next session, the same as if it had never been before the assembly.

12. Questions of Privilege.[1] Questions relating to the rights and privileges of the as-


  1. Questions of Privilege must not be confounded with Privileged Questions [§ 9]. Disorder in the gallery, one member opening a window so as to cause a draft, endangering the health of others, charges made against the official character of a member, etc., are examples of questions of privilege.