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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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An Objection to the Consideration of a Question .............. § 15.
To Take up a Question out of its proper order ................ § 13.
To Suspend the Rules ......................................... § 18.
The Previous Question ........................................ § 20.
To Close or Limit Debate ..................................... § 37.
To Amend the Rules (requires previous notice also) ........... § 43.
To Make a special order ...................................... § 13.

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Art. VII. The Officers and the Minutes.
[§§ 40, 41.]

40. Chairman* [In connection with this section read § 44, and also §
40, 41.] or President. The presiding officer, when no special title has
been assigned him, is ordinarily called the Chairman (or in religious
assemblies more usually the Moderator); frequently the constitution of
the assembly prescribes for him a title, such as President.

His duties are generally as follows:

To open the session at the time at which the assembly is to meet, by
taking the chair and calling the members to order; to announce the
business before the assembly in the order in which it is to be acted
upon [§ 44]; to state and to put to vote [§ 38] all questions which are
regularly moved, or necessarily arise in the course of proceedings, and
to announce the result of the vote;

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