Appendix.

1.

Order of Business, and Rules of Order and Dehate.

THE Chair shall be taken, and the Company called to Order precisely at the time specified for the Meeting, by the senior officer present.

The following shall be, as nearly as practicable, the

1. Roll Call.

Order of Business,

2. Reading of the minutes of preceding Meetings, not yet passed upon.

3. Session of the Court Martial.

4. Payment of Dues and Assessments.

5. Treasurer's Report.

6. Reports of Committees. [The Recruiting Committee first.]

7. Unfinished business.

8. Elections.

9. Original business.

Rules of Order and Debate.

1. No question or motion shall be debated or put, unless the same be seconded; when a motion is seconded, it shall be stated by the Chairman before debated, and every such motion shall be reduced to writing, if any member require it.

2. After a motion is stated by the Chairman, or read by the Secretary, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the Meeting; but it may be withdrawn at any time before the question has been taken upon it, or before it has been amended.

3. When a question is before the Company no motion shall be received, unless

1. To amend it.

2. To substitute another.

3. To refer it.

4. To postpone it.

5. To lay it on the Table.

6. For the previous question.

7. To adjourn.

4. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; that and the motion to lay on the Table shall be decided without debate.

5. The previous question shall be put in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?"

Until it is decided, it shall preclude all amendments of the main question.

6. Every member engaged in debate shall rise and address his remarks to the Chairman. Should more than one member rise to speak at the same time, the Chairman shall designate the one entitled to the floor.

7. A member called to order shall await the decision of the Chairman upon the question of order, from which decision any member may appeal to the Company, who shall decide upon the question after it has been stated without debate.

8. No motion for reconsideration shall be in order unless made at the same Meeting, or in pursuance of notice then given for the next Meeting after that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered took place. It shall be in order for any member who has voted with the majority to move a reconsideration

thereof.

9. Every member shall be allowed at his own request, to have his vote recorded on any question before the close of the meeting at which the vote upon such question is taken.

10. The yeas and nays on any question may be called for by five members, and the Secretary shall call the name of each member, who shall answer "yes," or "no," unless for special reason he be excused for so doing. If a division be called for by any member, the Meeting shall divide those in the affirmative shall first rise from their seats, and afterwards those in the negative.

11. An appeal may be had from any decision of the Chairman, made at any Meeting for business, if de

manded the same evening the decision is made, by five members present at such Meeting.

12. Any deficiency in these Rules shall be supplied, and any debate or point of order, arising from any misapprehension or deficiency therein, shall be decided by reference to the Rules of Order and Debate of the House of Assembly of the State of New York.