Section 16Part 0 —
Appointment of standing and other committees
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Every society may elect and appoint any number of the members to be a committee, the number thereof to be declared in the rules of such society; and may delegate to such committee any of the powers given by this Law; who, being so delegated, shall continue to act as such committee during such time as they are appointed, for such society, for general purposes, the powers of such committee being first declared in the rules, certified and filed in the manner directed, and in all cases wherein a committee shall be appointed for any particular purpose, the powers delegated to such committee shall be reduced to writing and entered in a book by the secretary or clerk of the society, and a majority of the members of such committee shall, at all times, be necessary to concur in any act of such committee, and such committee shall, in all things delegated to them, act for and in the name of the society; and all acts and orders of such committee under the powers delegated to them shall have the like force and effect as the acts and orders of such society at any general meeting could or might have had under this Law:
Provided that the transactions of such committee shall be entered in a book belonging to such society, and shall be, at all times, subject to the review, allowance or disallowance, and control of such society, in such manner as the society shall, by their general rules certified and filed as aforesaid, have directed and appointed, or shall in like manner direct and appoint.