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(b) Second Meeting.[1] At the next meeting the officers of the previous meeting, if present, serve until the permanent officers are elected. When the hour arrives for the meeting, the chairman standing, says, “The meeting will please come to order;” as soon as the assembly is seated, he adds, “The secretary will read the minutes of the last meeting.” If any one notices an error in the minutes, he can state the fact as soon as the secretary finishes reading them; if there is no objection, without waiting for a motion, the chairman directs the secretary to make the correction. The chairman then says, “If there is no objection the
- ↑ Ordinary meetings of a society are conducted like this second meeting, the chairman, however, announcing the business in the order prescribed by the rules of the society [§ 44]. For example, after the minutes are read and approved, he would say, ‘‘The next business in order is hearing reports from the standing committees.” He may then call upon each committee in their order for a report, thus: ‘‘Has the committee on applications for membership any report to make?’’ In which case the committee may report, as shown above, or some member of it reply that they have no report to make. Or, when the chairman knows that there are but few if any reports to make, it is better, after making the announcement of the business, for him to ask, “Have these committees any reports to make?” After a short pause, if no one rises to report, he states, ‘‘There being no reports from the standing committees, the next business in order is hearing the reports of select committees,’’ when he will act the same as in the case of the standing committees. The chairman should always have a list of the committees, to enable him to call upon them, as well as to guide him in the appointment of new committees.
