After some further debate, it was determined to refer the two first resolutions to a committee of seven, and the last to a committee of five members.
The previous question was then demanded by five members: Shall the main question be now put?
Ordered, That a committee to consist of five members be appointed to prepare an address pursuant to the said resolution.
The convention, apprised of the danger, sat permanently, stationed round its place of sitting the troops of the camp of Sablons, and concentrated its powers in a committee of five members, who were entrusted with all measures of public safety.
It confided the legislative power to two councils; that of the Cinq-cents and that of the Anciens; and the executive power to a directory of five members.
The department had an administrative council composed of thirty-six members, and an executive directory composed of five members: as the names indicate, the functions of the one were to decide, and of the other to act.
They, therefore, confined themselves to the creation of a directory of five members, nominated by the council of ancients, at the recommendation of that of the Five Hundred.
It had an acting committee of five members in each county in the State.
According to the census of 1830, and the ratio of representation based upon that, slave property added twenty-five members to the House of Representatives.
The committee consisted of five members, two from the majority, two from the minority, and the speaker, who was the fifth member.
Altogether fifty-five members sat in the convention at one time or another, though only thirty-nine signed the Constitution.
In most states it is a small board, usually three or five members; in some it is larger, being composed of one member from each township in the county.
We have a local circle in this place which numbers twenty-five members, and the majority of them have their names enrolled at Plainfield, N.
The instruction committee consists of five members, and apportions the work among the members.
On the expiration of the above-mentioned period the said area will be placed under the authority of an International Commission of five members appointed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers.
The idea of ending political anarchy by establishing an executive body of five members was a curious one, but it was better than the executive body of more than a hundred which had existed before.
The two chambers were reduced to one legislative body of thirty-five members.
There was to be a sort of parliament of fifty-five members elected by the provincial estates.
Out of sixty-five members thirty-nine voted for the bill.
Resolved, That the Message be referred to a select committee, to consist of five members, to consider and report thereon by bill or otherwise.
The Dutch representation in the Legislative Assembly at Paris was fixed at twenty-five members; in the Senate at six members.
He was assisted by a Council of State, nominated by himself, of five members, and by six Secretaries of State.
Five members of the old board retired at their own wish, one of them, Miss Meyer, being in the war service in France.
The three families have in all one hundred and forty-five members.
There are in all sixty-five members, and eleven families.
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