§ 1717Selection of Committee

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When the number
aforesaid shall be completed, the clerk of the House of
Representatives shall draw out, one by one, the names of the
remaining members of the Senate, and deliver them singly to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall unfold and
read them aloud; and the secretary of the Senate shall in like
manner draw out the names of the remaining members of the House
of Representatives, and deliver them singly to the presiding
officer of the Senate, who shall unfold them and read them
aloud; and if any unfairness or mistakes shall then be
discovered therein, the whole proceedings shall be set aside,
and the same shall be renewed in manner and form hereinbefore
directed; but after the committee is sworn, no objection for
such cause shall be received.

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