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Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Subsidiary Motions

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4245442Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure — Subsidiary Motions1902Orson B. Felt

SUBSIDIARY MOTIONS.

93. Subsidiary motions (sometimes called preferred dependent motions), are applied to other motions for the purpose of disposing of that particular business, and therefore must be decided before the question giving rise to them can be acted upon.

To lay on the table.

The previous question.

To postpone to a certain time.

To commit or re-commit.

To amend.

To postpone indefinitely.

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