Town Meeting:Adjournment

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For many years, the length of the Warrant has precluded the completion of Town Meeting business in a single evening. Customarily, the Selectmen recommend dates and times of successive sessions.

A motion to adjourn, which is debatable, is usually made as close to 10:45pm as possible without interrupting action on an article. Thus no article for which prolonged debate is anticipated should be brought up after 10:00pm and no article after 10:15pm. The motion is usually made by a Selectman, though any member may move adjournment. Occasionally, the members choose to remain long enough to take up one or two more articles.