OF

RULES OF ORDER

FOR

DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES.

PART I.

RULES OF ORDER.

A COMPENDIUM OF PARLIAMENTARY LAW, BASED UPON THE RULES
AND PRACTICE OF CONGRESS.

PART II.

ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF
BUSINESS.

A SIMPLE EXPLANATION OF THE METHODS OF ORGANIZING AND
CONDUCTING THE BUSINESS OF SOCIETIES, CONVENTIONS,
AND OTHER DELIBERATIVE ASSEMBLIES.

BY MAJOR HENRY M. ROBERT,
CORPS OF ENGINEERS, U. S. A.

THIRTIETH THOUSAND

CHICAGO:

S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY.
1880.

HARVARD \
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY
046*270

COPYRIGHT, 1876,
By H. M. ROBERT.

KNIGHT & LEONARD, PRINTERS, CHICAGO.

Art. I.

Part I.-Rules of Order.

Introduction of Business.

§ 1. How introduced

2. Obtaining the floor..

3. What precedes debate on a question...
4. What motions to be in writing, and how
they shall be divided.

5. Modification of a motion by the mover.

Art. II.-General Classification of Motions.

§ 6. Principal or Main motions..

7. Subsidiary or Secondary motions
8. Incidental motions.

9. Privileged motions.

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Art. III.-Motions and their Order of Precedence.

Privileged Motions.

§ 10. To fix the time to which to adjourn.. 30
11. Adjourn

12. Questions of privilege.

13. Orders of the day...

Incidental Motions.

14. Appeal [Questions of Order].

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38

15. Objection to consideration of a question 41

16. Reading papers...

17. Withdrawal of a motion.

18. Suspension of the Rules..

25. Filling blanks, and Nominations
26. Renewal of a motion.

Form of their Reports... 72

32. Committee of the Whole..

73

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33. Informal consideration of a question.. 80

Art. V.- Debate and Decorum.

$34. Debate

35. Undebatable questions and those open-
ing the main question to debate..

36. Decorum in debate..

37. Closing debate, methods of.

Art. VI.-Vote.

$38. Voting, various modes of

39. Motions requiring more than a major-
ity vote.....

Art. VII.

Officers and the Minutes.

40. Chairman or President...

41. Clerk, or Secretary, and the Minutes.. 105

Art. VIII.- Miscellaneous.

$ 42. Session

43. Quorum

44. Order of Business.

109

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114

45. Amendment of the Rules of Order, etc. 117

Part II. - Organization and Conduct of
Business.

Art. IX.—Organization and Meetings.

§ 46. An Occasional or Mass Meeting.
(a) Organization

(b) Adoption of resolutions

(c) Committee on

(d) Additional Officers ..

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(b) Second meeting.

132

49. Constitutions, By-Laws, Rules of Or-

Art. X.- Officers and Committees.

der and Standing Rules..

135

§ 50. President or Chairman....

139

51. Secretary, or Clerk, and the Minutes.. 140

52. Treasurer

143

53. Committees

147