Secretarial practice

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Identifikator:: 1828236004

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249926

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Secretarial practice

Edition:: fourth edition

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: viii, 987 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XXVII. Agenda and minutes

Collection:: Economics Books

AGENDA AND MINUTES 339 the original resolution is submitted. If the amendment is lost, the chairman will then proceed to put the original resolution. If the amendment is carried, it then takes the place of the original resolution, and, notwithstanding that it has already been voted upon by the meeting, the chairman will again put it in the form of a substantive motion. In minuting a motion to which an amendment is proposed, it is desirable to give the name of the proposer and seconder of the original motion, and care must be taken to set out the exact words of the motion, then to record the name of the proposer and seconder of the amendment with the exact wording of the amendment, and the secretary should be careful to state in his minute the declaration of the chair- man upon the voting, first of the amendment, and, if that amendment is carried, also of the substantive motion. If two amendments are proposed to the same motion, the first amendment (after being seconded) should be disposed of before the chairman accepts a second amendment. It is not usual to allow the same person to move more than one amendment to any particular motion. If an amendment is proposed and finds no seconder, it drops, and the chairman passes on to the main motion or other next business without putting the amendment to the meeting. In that case, there will not be minuted any record of the amendment that failed to find a seconder. [t is not necessary to record on the minutes, in the case of a vote taken by show of hands, the exact number voting for or against the resolution, though if the chairman an- nounces those numbers there is no objection to recording them. If the chairman announces a resolution to be ‘carried unanimously,” that fact should be recorded, and where a majority of voters vote in favour of a resolution and a minority remain neutral, it may be recorded that the resolu- tions was carried nem. con. This expression, which is an abbreviation of the words ‘nemine contradicente,” is in ordinary acceptation, only a method of recording the fact that no one actually voted against the resolution. Strictly speaking, however, the expression ‘nem. con.’ is a par- liamentary expression, and according to the Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England (Vol. 9, page 594) the words signify the unanimous consent of the House of Commons to a vote or resolution—a different expression being used to record a similar vote in the House of Lords. (See also article by Sir Ernest Clarke in The Secretary, Jan. 1917) When a resolution has to be carried by a given majority,

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