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Title: Robert's Rules of Order
Pocket Manual of Rules Of Order For Deliberative Assemblies

Author: Henry M. Robert

Release Date: November 13, 2004 [EBook #9097]

Language: English

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ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER

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Pocket Manual
of
Rules Of Order
For
Deliberative Assemblies

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Part I.
Rules of Order.

A Compendium of Parliamentary Law, based upon the rules
and practice of Congress.

Part II.
Organization and Conduct Of Business.

A simple explanation of the methods of organizing and
conducting the business of societies, conventions,
and other deliberative assemblies.

By Major Henry M. Robert,
Corps of Engineers, U.S.A.

Chicago:
S. C. Griggs & Company.
1876.

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Copyright, A.D. 1876,
by
H. M. Robert

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Printed by Burdick & Armitage, Milwaukee

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PREFACE.

There appears to be much needed a work on parliamentary law, based, in
its general principles, upon the rules and practice of Congress, and
adapted, in its details, to the use of ordinary societies. Such a work
should give, not only the methods of organizing and conducting the
meetings, the duties of the officers and the names of the ordinary
motions, but in addition, should state in a systematic manner, in
reference to each motion, its object and effect; whether it can be
amended or debated; if debatable, the extent to which it opens the main
question to debate; the circumstances under which it can be made, and
what other motions can be made while it is pending. This Manual has
been prepared with a view to supplying the above information in a
condensed and systematic manner, each rule being either complete in
itself, or giving references to every section that in any way qualifies
it, so that a stranger to the work can refer to a