Tilson's Manual, or A Manual of Parliamentary Procedure, is a parliamentary authority

Parliamentary authority

A parliamentary authority is a manual on parliamentary law, containing rules of order for the transaction of business in deliberative assemblies...

 written by John Q. Tilson

John Q. Tilson

John Quillin Tilson was a Republican politician in the United States, on both state and national levels, and a lawyer....

 and published in 1948.

Chapter VI of Tilson's Manual is on Seconding Motions. Tilson explores the history of seconding motions in the English Parliament and in early American Legislatives. He then details the reasons why the practice of seconding motions should be dropped.

Cited in Mason's Legislative Manual.