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60 Special committees are such as are appointed, or elected for a specific purpose, or to take charge of some special subject.

Most fraternal organizations have a standing committee known as an executive committee or council of administration whose duty is to attend to pressing matters of the organization between its annual meetings.

55. Where there are two or more bodies auxiliary to each other it is customary to have appointed a committee consisting of an equal number from each body known as a conference committee (which ranks with standing committees) to which is referred all matters concerning both or all the bodies. This committee meets to discuss the business referred to them and after agreement report to their respective assemblies. In such assemblies courtesy to the auxiliary body requires that precedence be given to the report of the conference committee. In order for a conference report to be valid it must be agreed to by a majority of those from each body on this committee and the