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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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Day?"

The Effect of an affirmative vote on a call for the Orders of the Day,
is to remove the question under consideration from before the assembly,
the same as if it had been interrupted by an adjournment [§ 11].

The Effect of a negative vote is to dispense

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with the orders merely so far as they interfere with the consideration
of the question then before the assembly.

Incidental Motions.
[§§ 14-18; see § 8]

14. Appeal [Questions of Order]. A Question of Order takes precedence
of the question giving rise to it, and must be decided by the presiding
officer without debate. If a member objects to the decision, he says,
"I appeal from the decision of the Chair." If the Appeal is seconded,
the Chairman immediately states the question as follows: "Shall the
decision of the Chair stand as the judgement of the assembly?"* [The
word Assembly can be replaced by Society, Convention, Board, etc.,
according to the name of the organization.] This Appeal yields to
Privileged Questions [§ 9]. It cannot be amended; it cannot be debated
when it relates simply to indecorum [§ 36], or to transgressions of the
rules of speaking, or to the priority of business, or if it is made
while the previous question [§ 20] is pending. When debatable, no
member is allowed to speak but once, and whether debatable or not, the
presiding officer, without leaving the
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