aken. To prevent
the motion being used to defeat a measure that cannot be deferred till
the next regular meeting, it is provided that in case the society
adjourn, to meet the next day for instance, then the reconsideration
will not hold over beyond that session; this allows sufficient delay to
notify the society, while, if the question is one requiring immediate
action, the delay cannot extend beyond the day to which they adjourn.
Where the meetings are only quarterly or annual, the society should be
properly represented at each meeting, and their best interests are
subserved by following the practice of Congress, and letting the effect
of the reconsideration terminate with the session.

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Art. IV. Committees and Informal Action.
[Sec.Sec. 28-33.]

28. Committees. It is usual in deliberative assemblies, to have all
preliminary work in the preparation of matter for their action, done by
means of committees. These may be either "standing committees" (which
are appointed for the session [Sec. 42], or for some definite time, as one
year); or "select committees," appointed for a special purpose; or a
"committee of the whole" [Sec. 32], consisting of the entire assembly.
[For method of appointing committees of the whole, see Sec. 32; other
committees, see commit, Sec. 22.] The first person named on a committee is
chairman, and should act as such, without the committee should see fit
to elect another chairman, which they are competent to do. The clerk
should furnish him, or some other member of the committee, with notice
of the appointment of the committee, giving the names

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of the members, the matter referred to them, and such instructions as
the assembly have decided upon. The chairman shall call the committee
together, and if there is a quorum (a majority of the committee, see Sec.
43,) he should read or have read, the entire resolutions referred to
them; he should then read each paragraph, and pause for amendments to be
offered; when the amendments to that paragraph are voted on he proceeds
to the next, only taking votes on amendments, as the committee cannot
vote on the adoption of matter referred to them by the assembly.

If the committee originate the resolutions, they vote, in the same way,
on amendments to each paragraph of the draft of the resolutions, (which
dr