iness.

70. Session. Each regular meeting of a society constitutes a separate
session. Any meeting which is not an adjournment of another meeting,
commences a new session; the session terminates as soon as the assembly
"adjourns without day."* [In ordinary practice, a meeting is closed by
moving simply "to adjourn;" the society meet again at the time provided
either by their rules or by a resolution of the society. If they do not
meet till the time for the next regular meeting, as provided in the
By-Laws, then the adjournment closed the session, and was in effect an
adjournment without day. If, however, they had previously fixed the
time for the next meeting, either by a direct vote, or by adopting a
programme of exercises covering several meetings or even days, in either
case the adjournment is in effect to a certain day, and does not close
the session.]

When an assembly has meetings for several days consecutively, they all
constitute one session. Each session of a society is independent of the
other sessions, excepting as expressly provided in their Constitution,
By-Laws, or Rules of Order, and excepting that resolutions adopted by
one session are in force during succeeding sessions until rescinded by a
majority vote [see note to Sec. 49].

Where a society holds more than one regular session a year, these rules
limit the independence of each session as follows: (a) The Order of
Business prescribed in Sec. 72 requires that the

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minutes of the previous meeting, the reports of committees previously
appointed, and the unfinished business of the last session, shall all
take precedence of new business, and that no subject can be considered
out of its proper order, except by a two-thirds vote; (b) it is
allowable to postpone a question to the next session, when it comes up
with unfinished business, but it is not allowable to postpone to a day
beyond the next session, and thus interfere with the right of the next
session to consider the question; (c) a motion to reconsider a vote can
be made at one meeting and called up at the next meeting even though it
be another session, provided the society holds its regular sessions as
frequently as monthly.* [See Rules of Order, Sec. 42, for a full discussion
of this subject.]

71. Quorum. [See Sec. 43 for full information on this subject.]

72. Order of Business. Every society should adopt an orde