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Divison.
17. A division may be demanded by any Five
Members, and the Chairman shall thereupon cause the
names of the Members of the Vestry to be called over, and
their Votes taken.
Adjournment
of Debate.
18. No Member moving the Adjournment
of a Debate or the Vestry shall be allowed to speak for
more than five minutes; after the Motion has been Seconded
without a speech, and one Member has been heard for not
more than five minutes in opposition to the Motion, the question
shall be at once put without further debate.
Opposed
Business.
19. No opposed business shall be taken after
Ten o'clock p.m. Opposed business, for the purposes of this
Rule, means business to which three Members rise in their
places in opposition.
Closure.
20. When Nine Members shall rise in their
places and desire that the question shall be put, the Chairman
shall put the previous question, "That the Question be
now put." If the Vestry resolve in the affirmative, then,
if the question before the Vestry be the original motion
or the first amendment, the Chairman shall call upon the
Mover of the original motion to reply before putting the
question.
Committees,
Nomination for
21. That the Nomination of Members of the
Vestry to the different Standing Committees at the first
Meeting of the Vestry after the Elections in May of each
year, shall be made by Wards. The Vestry Clerk shall,
immediately after the May Elections, and prior to the first
Meeting of the Vestry thereafter, convene Meetings of the
Members for each Ward separately, when they shall prepare
their nominations for the different Committees.