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Select committee   /səlˈɛkt kəmˈɪti/   Listen
Select committee

noun
1.
A parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose.






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... effect. For then the application of capital to industry, and the increase in production and revenue can proceed at the rate of compound interest. Already his hopes, for which he was indebted to the "Wealth of Nations,"[44] had been largely realized. The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons presented in May 1791 showed the following growth in the ordinary revenue (exclusive of ...
— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... rambled into a long discussion of the rights allowed under the Constitution, although no action had been proposed except the mere appointment of a Select Committee, to whom all questions relating to woman suffrage might be referred, such as already existed ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... and the three years ending with 1829, had been doubled. Of the vast number of persons affected, or at least interested in this business, we see not only from the crowded rooms, but also from the statement given in the report of the select committee on the Admiralty and other Courts of Doctors' Commons in 1833, where it appears that in one year (1829) the number of searches amounted to 30,000. In the same year extracts were taken from ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... Inchiquin, came to naught. The rejection by the Lords of measures supported by Gladstone's government in 1881-1883 brought the chamber afresh into popular disfavor, and in 1884 Lord Rosebery introduced a motion "that a select committee be appointed to consider the best means of promoting the efficiency of this House," with the thought that there might be brought into the chamber representatives of the nation at large, and even of the laboring classes. The motion was rejected overwhelmingly, but in 1888 it was renewed, and in ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... the Select Committee of the United States Senate. Investigation into the cases of the removal of Negroes from the Southern states into the Northern states. 3 Parts, 1,486 pp. ...
— The Negro at Work in New York City - A Study in Economic Progress • George Edmund Haynes


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