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PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE

allows a special meeting to be called by ten members. Any amendment to this amendment is in order which changes the number required to call a special meeting to a number that is between that required by the proposed amendment, ten, and that required at present, namely, a majority of the membership. Since twenty falls between these numbers the amendment to the amendment is in order. The question is on the amendment to Section 4 of the substitute. [Adopted.] Are there any further amendments proposed to this section? [No response.] There being none, the present section and the two sections it is proposed to substitute for it will be read. [After they are read the chair proceeds:] As many as are in favor of substituting the two sections last read for Sec. 3, Art. VI of the by-laws will rise and stand until counted. [Count made by chair or secretary if assembly is small; if large, the chair should appoint tellers to make the count.] Be seated. Those opposed will rise. [Count made.] Be seated. There are 39 in the affirmative and 8 in the negative. There being two-thirds in the affirmative the substitute is adopted.[1] The next business in order is the election of four delegates to the State Convention. How shall they be chosen?

Mr. D. I move "that nominations be made from the floor and that the election be viva voce."

  1. When amendments are adopted that demand changes in the numbering of articles, or sections, or paragraphs, such changes are made by the secretary without any action of the society.