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§ 114
Affirmative Action.
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others should be definite. Otherwise the rule prohibiting amending different part of the proposition at the same time would be violated.

EFFECT OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

114. If the motion to strike out certain words from a paragraph be decided in the affirmative, then the words so struck out cease to be a part of the paragraph (unless by a reconsideration [135] of the vote by which they were struck out) cannot be reinstated in whole or in part, except with other words—because the assembly has decided they shall not in their present form stand as a part of the paragraph, but the same words with others, or part of the same words with others may be again inserted, provided they constitute a proposition different from the one already decided.

EFFECT OF NEGATIVE ACTION.

115. So if a motion to strike out certain words is rejected it cannot be renewed as

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