Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor: Third Appendix: Rules of O...
Shibboleth: A Templar Monitor, by George Cooper Connor, [1894]
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 A motion, when stated by the Commander, can not be withdrawn without the consent of the Commandery.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:
The previous question.
To close, or call to rest.
The following questions are not debatable:
To grant leave to withdraw a proposition.
To postpone to a time definite.
To reconsider a proposition.
To commit without instructions.