are not separated by too great a time, the minutes are read at the next
meeting.

The clerk should, previous to each meeting, for the use of the chairman,
make out an order of business [§ 44], showing in their exact order what
is necessarily to come before the assembly. He should also have at each
meeting a list of all standing committees, and such select committees as
are in existence at the time. When a committee is appointed, he should
hand the names of the committee and all papers referred to it to the
chairman, or some other of its members.

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Art. VIII. Miscellaneous.
[§§ 42-45.]

42. A Session of an assembly is a meeting* [See definitions in
Introduction for the distinction between "meeting" and "session."]
which, though it may last for days, is virtually one meeting, as a
session of a Convention; or even months, as a session of Congress; it
terminates by an "adjournment without day." The intermediate
adjournments from day to day, or the recesses taken during the day, do
not destroy the continuity of the meeting--they in reality constitute
one session. In the case of a permanent society, having regular
meetings every week, month, or year, for example, each meeting
constitutes a separate session of the society, which session however can
be prolonged by adjourning to another day.

If a principal motion [§ 6] is indefinitely postponed or rejected at one
session, while it cannot be introduced again at the same session [see