it terminates by an “adjournment without day.” The intermediate adjournments from day to day, or the recesses taken during the day, do not destroy the continuity of the meeting—they in reality constitute one session. Any meeting which is not an adjournment of another meeting commences a new session. In the case of a permanent society, having regular meetings every week, month or year, for example, each meeting constitutes a separate session of the society, which session, however,
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 temporary adjournment; a “session’’ of an assembly ends with an adjournment without day, and may consist of many meetings. Sometimes a recess is taken for a few minutes, and this does not terminate the “meeting.”
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 adjournmer.t 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.
