Adjourn

Adjourn for an hour, then crank it up one minute after midnight.

CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009 2009

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the next meeting of The Junta when the delegate from the Southern Baptist Convention makes a Motion to Fix the Time to Adjourn, to which the rep. from the the Z.O.G. or perhaps the Freemasons will raise a point of order . . . just like '61, when they froshed the Vatican rookie!

Foreign policy Tripp 2006

Mrs. Adams arose and chose to Adjourn to her Chamber.

John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961

Adjourn, if you see fit, without settling this question; leave it as it is; admit no member from Tennessee; and when you go through the States next fall which hold their elections for Congress, see whether agitation has ceased.

History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

“Adjourn?” murmured Miss Curley, who already saw Mike on the scaffold.

Flowers for the Judge Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1934

Fix the Time to which to Adjourn (if made while another question is pending)

2. General Classification of Motions. 14. Privileged Motions Henry Martyn 1915

To Fix the Time to which to Adjourn is privileged only when made while another question is pending, and in an assembly that has made no provision for another meeting on the same or the next day.

ORDER OF PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS Henry Martyn 1915

To Adjourn loses its privileged character and is a main motion if in any way qualified, or if its effect, if adopted, is to dissolve the assembly without any provision for its meeting again.

ORDER OF PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS Henry Martyn 1915

Adjourn (if unqualified and if it has not the effect to dissolve the assembly)

2. General Classification of Motions. 14. Privileged Motions Henry Martyn 1915

In accordance with these principles, vote on the following motions cannot be reconsidered: Adjourn; Take a Recess; Lay on the Table; Take from the Table; Suspend the Rules or Order of Business; and Reconsider.

6. Some Main and Unclassified Motions. 36. Reconsider. Henry Martyn 1915