GENERAL CONFERENCE 1882.

RULES OF ORDER.

I. The President shall take the Chair at the hour to which the Conference may stand adjourned, and cause the same to be opened by reading of the Scriptures, Singing and Prayer. The business of Conference shall proceed in the following order :

1.-Reception of the Memorials.

2.-Reports, first of the Standing and then of the Special Committees.

3.

Motions, and other business of which notice has been previously given.

4. The Secretary shall announce the Order of Business for the day.

II. The President shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Conference; but in case of such appeal the question shall be taken without debate. When a member rises to a point of order, or the President calls any member to order, in each case the point of order shall be distinctly stated.

III. In case two or more members rise at the same time, the President shall deside which has the floor, and shall announce, if required, his name, and the Conference to which he belongs; and no member shall remain standing during debate, excepting the member addressing the President.

IV.--All motions or resolutions shall be presented in writing by the proposer, and shall be read by the President or Secretary on being being submitted to the vote of the Conference.

V. When a motion is made, or a resolution moved and seconded, or a report is presented and read by the Secretary, it shall be deemed in possession of the Conference; but any motion or resolution may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before amendment or decision.

VI.—All motions to postpone or lay on the table shall be taken without debate.

VII. No new motion or resolution shall be entertained until the one under consideration has been disposed of, which may be done by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following motions should intervene, which shall have precedence in the order in which they are here placed:— (1)-Indefinite postponement.

(2) Laying on the table.

(3)-Reference to a Committee.

(4) Postponement to a given time.

(5)-Substitute.

(6)-Amendment.

A substitute or amendment may be amended.

VIII.—When any member is about to speak in debate, or to deliver any matter to the Conference, he shall rise and address the President.

IX. No member shall be interrupted when speaking, except by the President to call him to order when he departs from the question; but any member may call the attention of the President to the subject when he deems the speaker out of order.

question, without leave of the Conference, except the mover, who shall have the right of a general reply.

XI. When any motion or resolution has been voted upon by the Conference, it shall be in order for any member, who voted with the majority, to move a reconsideration— Provided he shall have given notice of such motion at a previous session; but a motion to reconsider a non-debatable motion shall be decided without debate.

XII. No member shall absent himself from the Session of the Conference without leave, unless he is sick or unable to attend.

XIII. No member shall be allowed to vote upon any question who is not within the bar when such question is put by the President, except by leave of the Conference.

XIV. Every member who is within the bar at the time the question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Conference shall, for special reasons, excuse him.

XV.—It shall be in order for any member to call for yeas and nays on any question before the Conference, and should the call be sustained by twenty-five members, the vote thereon shall be taken.

XVI. It shall be in order to move that the question be taken without further debate, on any measure pending before the Conference, and if such motion be sustained by a vote of two-thirds the question shall be taken.

XVII. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

XVIII. No Rule or Order of proceeding adopted by the Conference, shall be suspended unless by a two-thirds

vote.