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to meet at 7:30 p. m. could not be amended by striking out all after adjourn, because it changes it from a qualified to an unqualified motion; or a motion fixing the time could not be amended by striking out the time and inserting the place of meeting.[1]
- ↑ Note—As a rule, the motion to strike out and insert is indivisible, because it might lead to confusion, and is held by most authorities to be strictly one proposition, since if the proposition to strike out is rejected the proposition to insert would fall on its own weight; or the words, if inserted, might destroy the sense of the motion or resolution. Therefore, the chairman should exercise his best judgment as to whether the questions presented are properly divisible, for since it is a combination of the two forms—to strike out and to insert—there seems to be no good reason why this question may not be divided into these two forms, provided each of the propositions into which it is proposed to divide the question is a distinct proposition, capable of standing by itself if the other is not adopted.
(For further description of this form of amendment see division of the question, Sec. 128).
