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CHART II.

INCIDENTAL MOTIONS.


Questions of Order and Appeal.

Suspension of the Rules. (2/3)

Objection to Consideration of a Question. (2/3)

@ Division of a Question, and @ Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim.

Division of the Assembly. & @ Motions relating to Voting.

@ Motions relating to Nominations. (2/3?)

Requests growing out of Business Pending or that has just been pending; as,

Parliamentary Inquiry,

Request for Information,

Leave to Withdraw a Motion,

Reading Papers,

To be Excused from a Duty,

Request for any other Privilege.


CERTAIN OTHER MOTIONS.


Take from the Table.

Reconsider.

@ Rescind. (2/3?)

@ Ratify.

Incidental motions, see page 92, cannot be arranged according to rank like privileged and subsidiary ones. They take precedence of the pending motion or business out of which they arise. On account of their privilege to interrupt business they are undebatable, excepting an appeal in certain cases as shown in the explanation of a broken underscore (— — — —) page 165.

Of the Certain Other Motions mentioned, Reconsider is the only one that can be moved when another question is pending. Its privileges are very great as will be seen by consulting page 80. The motion to Take from the Table has the right of way over any main motion that has not yet been stated by the chair. [See page 72.]

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