Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230244761
Book Description
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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... company, and they are not seated, it is highly expedient that the chairman require them to be so. And if he think that some of them require instruction on this head, it will be equally expedient in him to request that gentlemen will keep their seats during the business of the meeting, save when they rise to speak; and that each gentleman, on the conclusion of whatever he may have to say, instantly resume his seat, affording thereby a fair opportunity for any other gentleman to rise. Observations of this kind, according to the taste and judgment of the chairman, concluding with a recommendation to the meeting to give a patient hearing to the several speakers, will form a very suitable prelude to the business of the meeting. On resuming his seat, the chairman, both now and on every other occasion, intimates his desire that the business of the meeting should proceed. 30. A motion will now, of course, be submitted to the meeting; and this motion, having been read, generally by the mover, will doubtless be seconded. After the moving and the seconding, the words of the motion in writing being handed to the chairman or to his secretary, ought again, in an audible voice, to be read to the meeting, either by the chairman or by some person of his appointment: and immediately after this, for any objection to be made on such motion, or any amendment moved thereon. If, after a reasonable and sufficient pause, no objector present himself, the chairman will proceed to put the motion to the meeting, taking the votes for it, and then against it, in the manner usual at meetings of the same description. This is by a show of hands, or by the ayes and noes. 31. If, however, an objection to the Original MoTion, as the first motion is called, be raised, that...