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Robert's Rules of Order - Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies by Henry M. Robert
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to Postpone, without affecting the principal motion, and can, if
specified, be applied to a pending amendment [§ 20]; (b) the motions to
Postpone to a certain day, and to Commit, can be amended; and (c) a
motion to Amend the minutes can be laid on the table without carrying
the minutes with it [§ 19].

8. Incidental Questions are such as arise out of other questions, and,
consequently, take precedence of, and are to be decided before, the
questions which give rise to them. They yield to Privileged Questions
[§ 9], and cannot be amended. Excepting an Appeal,

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they are undebatable; an Appeal is debatable or not, according to
circumstances, as shown in § 14. They are as follows:

Appeal (or Questions of Order) ........................... See § 14.
Objection to the Consideration of a Question ............. '' § 15.
The Reading of Papers .................................... '' § 16.
Leave to Withdraw a Motion ............................... '' § 17.
Suspension of the Rules .................................. '' § 18.

9. Privileged Questions are such as, on account of their importance,
take precedence over all other questions whatever, and on account of
this very privilege they are undebatable [§ 35], excepting when relating
to the rights of the assembly or its members, as otherwise they could be
made use of so as to seriously interrupt business. They are as follows
(being arranged in their order of precedence among themselves):

To Fix the Time to which the Assembly shall Adjourn ...... See § 10.
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