-144 MARYLAND MANUAL.

TO STRIKE OUT THE ENACTING CLAUSE.

(See Rule XXVIII.)
This motion takes precedence of the motion to amend, and

-if carried, rejects the bill. The motion is debatable, and

-cannot be amended, but can be reconsidered.
TO AMEND.

All the foregoing motions take precedence of this motion.
Debate must be limited to the subject of the amendment; can
^!be reconsidered. No motion or proposition on a subject dif-
ferent from that under consideration shall be admitted under
x:olor of an amendment. An amendment may be moved to an
amendment, but no farther; but there may be submitted at the
same time an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the
whole or part of the'Original text, and an amendment to that
amendment, but it cannot be voted upon until the original
matter is perfected.

A House amendment to a Senate bill may be amended, but
:it must be returned to the House for their concurrence.

[NOTE.—The foregoing motions are arranged in the order of prece-
dence to which they apply to questions under consideration. When
one of the foregoing motions is received, the practice is not to receive
one of lower dignity until the former is disposed of. None of the
aforegoing motions are in order when a question is being actually put,
when the roll is being called, or when another has the floor.]

OTHER MOTIONS.

SPECIAL ORDERS.

The practice of the Senate has been by a majority vote to
make any subject a special order, but parliamentary law
:requires a two-third vote to make a special order, it being
equivalent to a suspension of the rules, changing the estab-
lished order of business, but a majority vote only is neces-
sary in the case of general appropriation bills, or to post-
pone a special order. If a bill, or other subject made a special
order, is not taken up, 'Or, if taken up, is left undisposed
of on the day fixed, thereafter it loses its specialty.
.Special orders take precedence in the order in which they