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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... MOTIONS ..". what you hare to say, I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear, and answer, such high things." --Julius Gssar, Act I., Scene 1. Introduction of Business.--The business of an assembly is introduced through one of its members by the offering of a motion, or the presentation of a communication, report or resolution. If a communication, report or formal resolution is presented, a motion must be made to bring the question before the assembly for consideration and decision. Form of Motion.--The question always is, "Are you in favor of the motion, or are you opposed to it?" When a members says, "What is the question before the house?" he means, "What is the motion now under consideration?" In reply to such an inquiry the chair should say, "The question is upon the motion" (repeating the motion). Whenever in parliamentary usage a motion is reduced to writing it is presented in the form of a resolution. For instance, a members says, "1 move that the architect be instructed to provide for mill construction in the plans and specifications for the new building," but when asked to present the motion in writing it appears as follows: Offered by: Resolved, That the architect be instructed to provide for mill construction in the plans and specifications for the new building. Any main proposition is thus spoken of as a resolution. When a proposition is presented in the form of a resolution, the motion is "to adopt the resolution." A preamble in one or more paragraphs often precedes the resolution, as: Whereas, We, the undersigned, deprecate the maintenance and enlargement of the standing armies of the world as a menace to civilization, to culture and to religious ideals, therefore, Resolved, That we hope the conference...