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Rh When a chairman is elected, he takes the chair, and proceeds in the same manner to complete the organization of the assembly, by the choice of a secretary and such other officers, if any, as may be deemed necessary.

4. An organization, thus effected, maybe, and frequently is, sufficient for all the purposes of the meeting; but if, for any reason, it is desired to have a greater number of officers, or to have them selected with more deliberation, it is the practice to organize temporarily, in the manner above mentioned, and then to refer the subject of a permanent organization, and the selection of persons to be nominated for the several offices, to a committee; upon whose report, the meeting proceeds to organize itself, conformably thereto, or in such other manner as it thinks proper.

[The presiding officer is called the "speaker" in Congress, and in the lower branches of all our State legislatures, as well as in a few State Senates. In the majority of State Senates as well as in the U.S. Senate, he is denominated the President. In both Houses of the English Parliament he is called Speaker; the Lord Chancellor is Speaker of the House of Lords in the Commons elect their own