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Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure

Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure (1902)
by Orson B. Felt
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FELT'S
PARLIAMENTARY
PROCEDURE








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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE

For

Deliberative Assemblies

WITH PROPER FORMS FOR DISPOSING OF PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRIES, POINTS OF ORDER, APPEALS, ETC. ALSO, PRACTICAL LESSONS ON STATING THE QUESTION, PUTTING TO VOTE AND DECLARING THE RESULT


By ORSON B. FELT



PUBLISHERS
FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO.
CHICAGO

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Copyrighted, 1902, by Orson B. Felt

Chapters (not listed in original)
  1. Parliamentary Rules
  2. Need of Rules
  3. Definition of Terms
  4. Temporary Organization
  5. Permanent Organization
  6. Duties of a Presiding Officer
  7. Duties of the Secretary
  8. Minutes
  9. How to Obtain the Floor
  10. Seconding a Motion
  11. Main Question
  12. Meeting and Session
  13. Points of Order
  14. Parliamentary Inquiry
  15. Withdrawal of a Motion
  16. Renewal of a Motion
  17. Debate and Decorum
  18. Quorum
  19. Voting
  20. Proxy Voting
  21. Committees
  22. Reports of Committees
  23. Committee of the Whole
  24. Equivalent Motions
  25. Classification of Motions
  26. Order of Motions and their Precedence to One Another
  27. Cannot be Amended
  28. Cannot be Debated
  29. Do Not Require to be Seconded
  30. Require a Two-Thirds Vote
  31. Business that May Interrupt a Member while Speaking
  32. Privileged Motions
  33. To Fix the Time or Place to Which to Adjourn
  34. To Adjourn
  35. Effect of Adjournment on Unfinished Business
  36. Questions of Privilege
  37. Orders of the Day
  38. Subsidiary Motions
  39. To Lay on the Table
  40. The Previous Question
  41. Postpone to a Certain Time
  42. To Commit or Re-commit
  43. To Amend
  44. Amendment of an Amendment
  45. To Strike Out or to Insert Words
  46. Effect of Affirmative Action
  47. Effect of Negative Action
  48. To Strike Out and Insert Words
  49. As Applied to Paragraphs
  50. To Postpone Indefinitely
  51. Incidental Motions
  52. Appeal
  53. Objection to Consideration
  54. Division of a Question
  55. Suspension of the Rules
  56. Miscellaneous Motions
  57. To Fill Blanks
  58. Reading of Papers
  59. To Reconsider
  60. To Rescind
  61. To Substitute
  62. Order of Business
  63. Practical Lessons
  64. Next Meeting
  65. Another Example
  66. Practical Suggestions

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