tion to "adjourn to a particular time."]

The Form of this motion is, "When this assembly

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adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time."

11. To Adjourn. This motion (when unqualified) takes precedence of all
others, except to "fix the time to which to adjourn," to which it
yields. It is not debatable, and cannot be amended, or have any other
subsidiary motion [Sec. 7] applied to it. If qualified in any way it loses
its privileged character, and stands as any other principal motion. The
motion to adjourn can be repeated if there has been any intervening
business, though it be simply progress in debate [Sec. 26]. When a
committee is through with any business referred to it, and prepared to
report, instead of adjourning, a motion should be made "to rise," which
motion, in committee, has the same privileges as to adjourn in the
assembly [Sec. 32].

The effect upon Unfinished Business of an adjournment is as follows*
["After six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session
of any Congress, all bills, resolutions and reports which originated in
the House, and at the close of the next preceding session remained
undetermined, shall be resumed, and acted on in the same manner as if an
adjournment had not taken place." Rule 136, H. R. Any ordinary society
that meets as seldom as once each year, is apt to be composed of as
different membership at its successive meetings, as any two successive
Congresses, and only trouble would result from allowing unfinished
business to hold over to the next yearly meeting.] [see Session, Sec. 42]:

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(a) When it does not close the session, the business interrupted by the
adjournment is the first in order after the reading of the minutes at
the next meeting, and is treated the same as if there had been no
adjournment; an adjourned meeting being legally the continuation of the
meeting of which it is an adjournment.

(b) When it closes a session in an assembly which has more than one
regular session each year, then the unfinished business is taken up at
the next succeeding session previous to new business, and treated the
same as if there had been no adjournment [see Sec. 44, for its place in the
order of business]. Provided, that, in a body elected for a definite
time (as a board of directors elected for one year), unfinish