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.
[§§ 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 [§ 42], or for some definite time, as one
year); or "select committees," appointed for a special purpose; or a
"committee of the whole" [§ 32], consisting of the entire assembly.
[For method of appointing committees of the whole, see § 32; other
committees, see commit, § 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 §
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