ng any report or proposition
containing several paragraphs,* [No vote should be taken on the adoption
of the several paragraphs,--one vote being taken finally on the
adoption of the whole paper. By not adopting separately the different
paragraphs, it is in order, after they have all been amended, to go back
and amend any of them still further. In committee a similar paper would
be treated the same way [see Sec. 30]. In Sec. 48 (b) an illustration is
given of the practical application of this section.] is as follows:

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The whole paper should be read entirely through by the clerk; then the
Chairman should read it by paragraphs, pausing at the end of each, and
asking, "Are there any amendments proposed to this paragraph?" If none
are offered, he says, "No amendments being offered to this paragraph,
the next will be read;" he then reads the next, and proceeds thus to the
last paragraph, when he states that the whole report or resolutions have
been read, and are open to amendment. He finally puts the question on
agreeing to or adopting the whole paper as amended. If there is a
preamble it should be read after the last paragraph.

If the paper has been reported back by a committee with amendments, the
clerk reads only the amendments, and the Chairman then reads the first
and puts it to the question, and so on till all the amendments are
adopted or rejected, admitting amendments to the committee's amendments,
but no others. When

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through with the committee's amendments, the Chairman pauses for any
other amendments to be proposed by the assembly; and when these are
voted on, he puts the question on agreeing to or adopting the paper as
amended. Where the resolutions have been just read by the member
presenting them, the reading by the clerk is usually dispensed with
without the formality of a vote. By "suspending the rules" [Sec. 18], or
by general consent, a report can be at once adopted without following
any of the above routine.

45. Amendments of Rules of Order. These rules can be amended at any
regular meeting of the assembly, by a two-thirds vote of the members
present, provided the amendment was submitted in writing at the previous
regular meeting. And no amendment to Constitutions or By-Laws shall be
permitted, without at least equal notice and a two-thirds vote