Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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(g) Motions of which notice has been given, and
questions in the order in which they stand.
(h) Reports of Special Committees.
(i) Reports of Ordinary Committees and communications
from the Vestry Clerk.
VI.— No Motion shall be brought before the Vestry
unless notice thereof has been given in writing and been
read at a previous Meeting, or unless a notice thereof in
writing has been given to the Vestry Clerk one week
at least previous to the day of Meeting on which it is to
be discussed, except on such matters as may arise out of
Reports of Ordinary or Special Committees.
Notice of
Motions.
VII.— No Motion or Amendment shall be put from the
Chair unless reduced to writing and seconded; and no
Motion or Amendment, having been seconded, shall be
withdrawn without leave of the Vestry.
Mode of putting
Motions
or Amendments.
VIII.— Whenever an Amendment is made upon any
Motion, no second Amendment shall be taken into consideration
until the first Amendment is disposed of. If the
Amendment is carried, it shall then be put as an original
Motion, upon which a further Amendment may be moved ;
if the Amendment be negatived, then a further Amendment
may be moved to the original Question, so far as it applies
thereto; but the original Motion having been adopted cannot
be superseded by any other Amendment. No Member
shall be permitted to move more than one Amendment to a
Motion.
Amendments
how dealt
with.
Bye-Laws.
I.— Every Memorial must be sent to the Vestry Clerk to
be laid before the Vestry, the same to be considered the
following Vestry to that to which it is presented, when a
Deputation may attend if they think fit,— only one Member
of which shall address the Vestry, except in reply to questions
from Vestrymen.