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(d) Questions in accordance with By-law 16.
(e) Keports and notices of motion in the order in which they stand
upon the Agenda; provided (1) that at the second ordinary
meeting in each month reports of Committees shall take precedence
of notices of motion by private members, and (2) that at 9 p.m.
any debate in progress shall be suspended, and the Chairman shall
read out the remaining numbers on the Agenda which relate to
reports of Committees in order to ascertain which are unopposed.
These last shall forthwith be put to the vote, after which the
debate shall be resumed.
15.—No discussion shall be allowed on any subject not on the
Agenda.
16.—Except in the course of debate, or by permission of the Vestry,
it shall not be competent for any Vestryman to ask a question relative
to parochial affairs of any member or officer of the Vestry, unless notice
in writing signed by the Vestryman intending to ask the same shall
have been received by the Vestry Clerk before noon on the day of
meeting.
17.—All documents of which copies have been sent to Vestrymen,
and all reports of Committees of which a full epitome is printed on
the Agenda, shall lie taken as read.
18.—The following motions may be moved and seconded without
notice, but no speech or debate shall be permitted on any of them,
and the question shall be forthwith put, and decided by show of
hands without a division unless at least ten members vote against
the motion :—
a. To suspend a By-Law.
b. To adjourn the meeting or the debate.
c. To refer any matter to one of the permanent Committees.
d. To resolve the Vestry into Committee.
e. To proceed to the next business.
f. *'That the question be now put."
19.—A motion to suspend a by-law shall not be carried unless twothirds
of the Vestrymen present vote in its favour. No motion to
suspend so much of By-law 1 as relates to the termination of the
meeting of the Vestry shall be entertained before 9.30 p.m. nor a second
time the same evening.
20. Upon a motion to adjourn in which no time is mentioned, an
amendment may be moved that such adjournment be to a stated time.
Upon a motion to adjourn to any stated time, an amendment may
be moved to substitute some other time.
No Vestryman shall move or second more than one motion of
adjournment on the same evening.