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Rules of Order

The following simple rules will be about all that Commanders will find necessary in conducting the business of the Conclaves:

1.On the demand of a member, a motion must be reduced to writing.

2.A motion, when stated by the Commander, can not be withdrawn without the consent of the Commandery.

3.A motion to postpone to an indefinite time is debatable; a motion to postpone to a time definite is not debatable.

4.No amendment beyond an amendment to an amendment can be entertained.

5.A question will be divided on request of a member.

6.A proposition to be referred to a committee with instructions is debatable; if without instructions, it is not debatable.

7.A Frater voting in the majority may move to reconsider; such a motion is not debatable.

8.When a proposition is reconsidered it is before the Commandery in the exact form it was in at the moment it was voted upon.

9.Before a member is required to vote upon a paper he may require its reading.

10.When the report of a Committee is read, or received, it is the property of the Commandery, and the Committee is discharged without a vote. It may be revived.

11.When the Commander desires the debate to cease he arises, and proceeds to take the necessary steps.

12.A proposition subject to debate is open to debate until the negative is put, unless the Commander decides the debate should cease.

The following motions are not allowable in a Conclave of Knights Templar:

To lie on the table.

The previous question.

To close, or call to rest.

The following questions are not debatable:

To read papers.

To grant leave to withdraw a proposition.

To postpone to a time definite.

To reconsider a proposition.

To commit without instructions.