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and the foregoing exceptions, the same rules of order govern the com- 

 mittee of the whole as govern the main l>ody. 



7. A motion to rise and report progress is in order at any stage of the 

 business, and is to be decided without debate. When they have reported, 

 they may be discharged on motion, which brings the matter laid before 

 them directly before the association itself. 



COMMITMENT. 



1. If it be desired to refer a resolution, address or other matter to a com- 

 mittee, it is done on motion. If to a special committee, the chair names 

 the committee. Any member present may suggest one member on that 

 committee, and if the main body do not object the chair will name him, 

 since the silence of members in that case is equivalent to a direct appoint- 

 ment of that person by the association. But such a course is unusual, and 

 generally improper. 



2. Though the majority on a committee should be favourable to a mea- 

 sure, the minority may be of those who are opposed to it in some particu- 

 lars. But those totally opposed to it should never be appointed ; and if 

 any one of that view be named, he should rise and state the fact, when the 

 main body will excuse him from serving. 



3. If it be a written matter which is referred, the secretary delivers it 

 to the first named of the committee. 



4. A committee meets when and where it pleases, unless the time and 

 place is fixed for it. But it cannot act unless its members assemble to- 

 gether. 



5. The committee cannot change the title or subject of the matter before 

 it, but otherwise have full power over it. 



6. If it be a written matter before it, if it originate with the committee, 

 the writing must be considered paragraph by paragraph, and the question 

 put on each. After each paragraph is approved or amended, it is then 

 considered as a whole. If it has been referred, the committee only report 

 the amendments they recommend separately ; as they have no right to 

 amend a paper belonging to the main body. 



7. When the committee is through, some member moves that it rise, and 

 report the matter to the main body, with or without amendments, as the 

 case may be. 



REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



The chairman of the committee, standing in his place, informs the asso- 

 ciation that the committee to which was intrusted such a matter, naming 



