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§ 48] chair, and the temporary secretary is at the same time replaced. The convention is now organized for work.

(a) First Meeting. When it is desired to form a permanent society, those interested in it should see that only the proper persons are invited to be present at a certain time and place. It is not usual, in mass meetings or meetings called to organize a society, to commence until ten or fifteen minutes after the appointed time, when some one steps forward and says: “The meeting will please come to order; I move that Mr. A act as Chairman of this meeting.” Some one “seconds the motion,” when the one who made the motion puts it to vote (or, as it is called, “puts the question”), as already described under an “occasional meeting” [§ 46 (a)]; and, as in that case, when the Chairman is elected he announces, as the first business in order, the election of a secretary.

After the secretary is elected, the Chairman calls on some member who is most interested in getting up the society to state the object of the meeting. When this member rises he says: “Mr. Chairman.” The Chairman then an-