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When the evidence is all in, the accused should retire from the room,
and the society deliberate upon the question, and finally act by a vote
upon the question of expulsion or other punishment proposed.

In acting upon the case, it must be borne in mind that there is a vast
distinction between the evidence necessary to convict in a civil court
and that required to convict in an ordinary society or ecclesiastical
body. A notorious pickpocket could not even be arrested, much less
convicted, by a civil court, simply on the ground of being commonly
known as a pickpocket; while such evidence would convict and expel him
from any ordinary society.

The moral conviction of the truth of the charge is all that is necessary
in an ecclesiastical or other deliberative body, to find the accused
guilty of the charges.

If the trial is liable to be long and troublesome, or of a very delicate
nature, the member is frequently cited to appear before a committee,
instead of the society, for trial. In this case the committee report to
the society the result of their trial of the case, with resolutions
covering the punishment which they recommend the society to adopt.

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TABLE OF RULES

RELATING TO MOTIONS.

[This Table contains the answers to more than two hundred questions on
parliamentary law, and should always be consulted before referring to
the body of the Manual.]

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TABLE OF RULES RELATING TO MOTIONS.

Explanation of the Table. A Star shows that the rule heading the column
in which it stands, applies to the motion opposite to which it is
placed: a blank shows that the rule does not apply: a figure shows
that the rule only partially applies, the figure referring to the note
on the next page showing the limitations. Take, for example, "Lie on
the table:" the Table shows that Sec. 19 of the Pocket Manual treats of
this motion; that it is "undebatable" and "cannot be amended;" and that
an affirmative vote on it (as shown in note 3) "cannot be reconsidered:"
-- the four other columns being blank, show that this motion does not
"open the main question to debate," that it does not "require a 2/3
vote," that it does "require to be seconded," and that it is not "in
order when another member