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CHAPTER XIV.

INCIDENTAL MOTIONS.

Questions of Order.
Appeal.
Suspension of the Rules.
Objection to the Consideration of a Question.
Division of a Question.
Consideration by Paragraph or Seriatim.
Motions relating to Nominations.
Motions relating to Voting.
Division of the Assembly.
Requests, as Parliamentary Inquiry, etc.

Incidental Motions are such as arise out of the business of the assembly; or out of another question which is pending, and therefore take precedence of, and must be decided before, the question out of which they arise; or, out of a question that has just been pending and should be decided before any other business is taken up. They are undebatable, except an appeal under certain circumstances, as shown on page 93. Most of them are of such a nature that they cannot be amended. Amend is the only subsidiary motion that can be applied to any of them except to an appeal. They are in order whenever they are legitimately incidental at the time they are made. They have no relative rank among themselves. The

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