cannot be laid on the table, postponed, committed or amended].
(6) The effect of the motion if adopted.
(7) The form of stating the question when peculiar, and whatever other
information is necessary to enable one to understand the question.

Part II. While the second part covers the entire ground of the first
part, it does so in a much simpler manner, being intended for those who
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no acquaintance with the usages of deliberative assemblies. It also
explains the method of organizing an assembly or society, and conducting
a meeting. The motions are treated on an entirely different plan, being
classified according to the objects for which they are used, and those
of each class compared together so that the reader may obtain the best
motion for the accomplishment of any given object. It omits the
complications of parliamentary law, and has but few references to the
rules of Congress, or those in this Manual. In order to make it
complete in itself, it was necessary to repeat a few pages from the
first part.

Definitions.

In addition to the terms defined above (taking precedence of, yielding
to and applying to, see p. 14), there are other terms that are liable to
be misunderstood, to which attention should he called.

Meeting and Session.--In this Manual the term "meeting" is used to
denote an assembling together of the members of a deliberative assembly
for any length of time, during which there is no separation of the
members by adjournment. An adjournment to meet again at some other
time, even the same day, terminates the meeting, but not the session,
which latter includes all the adjourned meetings. The next meeting, in
this case, would be an "adjourned meeting" of the same session.

A "meeting" of an assembly is terminated by a

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temporary adjournment; a "session" of an assembly ends with an
adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings [see Session,
Sec. 42].

Previous Question--This term is frequently understood to refer to the
question previously under consideration. As used in this country it is
equivalent to a motion to "Stop debate, and proceed to voting on all the
questions before the assembly," with certain exceptions, where it
affects only one motion (as to postpone, to reconsider and an appeal;
see Sec. 20 for a full