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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,