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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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Adjourn .................................................. '' § 11.
Questions relating to the Rights and
Privileges of the Assembly or any of
its Members ............................................ '' § 12.
Call for the Orders of the Day ........................... '' § 13.

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Art. III. Motions and their Order of Precedence.* [For a list of all
the ordinary motions, arranged in their order of precedence, see § 64.
All the Privileged and Subsidiary ones in this Article are so arranged.]
[§§ 10-27.]

Privileged Motions.
[§§ 10-13. See § 9.]

10. To Fix the Time to which the Assembly shall Adjourn. This motion
takes precedence of all others, and is in order even after the assembly
has voted to adjourn, provided the Chairman has not announced the result
of the vote. If made when another question is before the assembly, it
is undebatable [§ 35]; it can be amended by altering the time. If made
when no other question is before the asembly, it stands as any other
principal motion, and is debatable.** [In ordinary societies it is better
to follow the common parliamentary law, and permit this question to be
introduced as a principal question, when it can be debated and
suppressed [§ 58, 59] like other questions. In Congress, it is never
debatable, and has entirely superseded the unprivileged and inferior
motion to "adjourn to a particular time."]

The Form of this motion is, "When this assembly
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