(a) When it does not close the session, the business interrupted by the
adjournment is the first in order after the reading of the minutes at
the next meeting, and is treated the same as if there had been no
adjournment; an adjourned meeting being legally the continuation of the
meeting of which it is an adjournment.

(b) When it closes a session in an assembly which has more than one
regular session each year, then the unfinished business is taken up at
the next succeeding session previous to new business, and treated the
same as if there had been no adjournment [see § 44, for its place in the
order of business]. Provided, that, in a body elected for a definite
time (as a board of directors elected for one year), unfinished business
falls to the ground with the expiration of the term for which the board
or any portion of them were elected.

(c) When the adjournment closes a session in an assembly which does not
meet more frequently than once a year, or when the assembly is an
elective body, and this session ends

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the term of a portion of the members, the adjournment shall put an end
to all business unfinished at the close of the session. The business
can be introduced at the next session, the same as if it had never been
before the assembly.

12. Questions of Privilege. Questions relating to the rights and
privileges of the assembly, or any of its members, take precedence of
all other questions, except the two preceding, to which they yield. The
Previous Question [§ 20] can be applied to these, as to all other