V. Of Questions and Votes.

When any communication, petition, or memorial is presented,

Mode of submitting motions and taking votes.

before it is read, or any vote taken on it, a brief statement of its contents shall be made by the introducer or the Chair; and after page 30 it has been read, a brief notice of the purport thereof shall be entered upon the Journal.

No motion shall be subject to action until seconded and stated by the Chair, and at the desire of any member it shall be reduced

When a blank is to be filled, the question shall be taken first upon the highest sum or number, and the longest or latest time proposed

Any member may call for a division of the question, when the sense may admit of it.

When a question is before the Grand Lodge, no motion shall be received unless (1st) to adjourn, (2nd) the previous question, (3rd) to lie on the table, (4th) to postpone indefinitely, (5th) to post pone to a certain time, (6th) to refer or to amend, and such motions shall have preoedence in the order herein arranged, the first three of which shall be decided without debate.

After any question, except one of indefinite postponement, has been decided, any two members who voted in the majority, may, during the same session move for a reconsideration thereof; and no second motion to reconsider the same question shall be in order during that session.

The previous question can be called for by two members, and if seconded by a majority, shall be put in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" If carried all debate shall cease, and the vote shall be first upon all pending amendments, beginning with the one last proposed, after which upon the mam question.

When five members rise in favour of taking a question by ayes and noes, they shall be ordered to-be be recorded; and the names of the Representatives shall be called by Lodges.

No more than two amendments to a proposition shall be entertained at the same time—that is, an amendment, and an amendment to an amendment—and the question shall be first taken on the latter.

Every member present shall vote on any question before the Grand Lodge, unless he is personally interested in the result, or has been excused by the Grand Lodge, or is otherwise incapacitated.

When a substitute for a motion is adopted in place of an amendment, it is not necessary to take action on the amendment.