The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

The same note also used an Eye of Providence, taken from the first committee's design.

Barton had at first specified " on the Summit of it a Palm Tree, proper ", with the explanation that " The Palm Tree, when burnt down to the very Root, naturally rises fairer than ever ", but later crossed it out and replaced it with the Eye of Providence, taken from the first committee's design.

To illustrate the article, along with copies of Hopkinson's and Barton's original drawings and his own interpretations of the first committee's designs, he also included an apparently original version of the reverse.

It was first formulated in 1842 by a committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature ; the committee's report was written by Hugh Edwin Strickland.

The main document, dated November 18, 1952, was supposedly prepared by Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the first CIA director, to brief incoming president Dwight Eisenhower on the committee's progress.

The committee's first meeting took place on 7 October, and on 11 October they delegated the arrangements for the individual branches of sports to the relevant governing bodies in Sweden.

The committee's work nevertheless led in 1906 to the first federal regulation of telephone and telegram service by the Board of Railway Commissioners, the ancestor of the current Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The committee's hearings, which were televised live just as many Americans were buying televisions, made Kefauver nationally famous and introduced many Americans to the concept of a criminal organization known as the Mafia for the first time ever.

The committee's investigation resulted in the first comprehensive report detailing critical shortfalls within the United States intelligence community's performance and technological capabilities.

Actress Katharine Hepburn declined the committee's first offer, though she relented in 1990.

The first reading of a favorably reported bill is automatic and occurs when the committee's report appears in the Journal of the House or Senate Clerk.

The committee's jurisdiction has been changed several times since it was first created, through additional powers or by changing the manner in which committee members are appointed.

In one of the committee's first moves, citizens lynched two criminals that had been in the city jails.

The first of these studies, laid down by the Fortification Committee of 1819 ()— which was largely influenced by the committee's secretary Johan Peter Lefrén — led to nothing more than the opinion that the large rivers up north — especially the Ångerman River — would benefit the defence and that no major fortifications were to be built.

Many of the committee's hearings were televised live on national television to large audiences, providing many Americans with their first glimpse of organized crime's influence in the U. S. Among the more notorious figures who appeared before the committee were Tony " Joe Batters " Accardo, Louis " Little New York " Campagna, Mickey Cohen, Frank Costello, Jake " Greasy Thumb " Guzik, Meyer Lansky, and Paul " The Waiter " Ricca.

Senator Kefauver served as the committee's first chair.

He became the committee's chairman in 1995 after the Republicans under Newt Gingrich of Georgia gained their first majority in the House in forty years.

Surrey's official captain for 1920 was Cyril Wilkinson, although Miles Howell, the committee's first choice, was unavailable.

At the committee's first meeting on 27 November 1947 it resolved to ask the Royal New Zealand Air Force for assistance.

It was led by George Lusk, a local builder who was elected chairman during the committee's first meeting on 10 September 1888.

This involves comparing the committee's performance versus its charter, any formal guidelines and rules, and against best practices.

The 1946 special joint committee's recommended national flag

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily ; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

Baseball historian Bill Marshall later wrote that the document and subsequent vote to which Rickey was referring was the advisory committee's initial draft of recommended reforms.

The planning committee recommended continued investment in the IRP and recommended specific administrative changes ; many of these were implemented upon release of the committee's final report ; other changes — for example, the establishment of a major new program on Mood and Anxiety Disorders — have been introduced in the years since.

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily.

The full Canadian Judicial Council, made up of the 22 of Canada's chief justices and senior judges, met to consider the committee's recommendation and, on March 31, 2009 formally recommended to Parliament that Cosgrove be removed saying that " We find that Justice Cosgrove has failed in the execution of the duties of his judicial office and that public confidence in his ability to discharge those duties in the future has been irrevocably lost.

The committee's subsequent report recommended that the identity of rape complainants should be kept secret, and that the defence should be limited in its ability to cross-examine the complainant about their sexual history in an effort to attack their character.

He said that even while the committee's own analysis and data supports the formation of an independent Telangana, it only recommended this as the second-best option.

This bill would have amended " the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of president to include with the committee's statement of organization a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the office of president under the Constitution ".

Lott's strong showing in the polls landed him on the powerful House Judiciary Committee as a freshman, where he voted against all three articles of impeachment drawn up against Nixon during the committee's debate.

Although some historians such as Macaulay have claimed Somers was made chairman of the committee which drew up the Declaration of Right, the committee's report was delivered to the Commons by Sir George Treby ( the chairman always delivered the report to the House ).

During this time, under the guise of an alliance of promoters attempting to regulate the sport and uphold the committee's ideas, the promoters created a cartel based on America's National Wrestling Alliance territory system that was designed to carve up control of the business among a handful of promoters — which it did in 1952 under the name of Joint Promotions.

During the immediate post war period, several new organizations sprung up that intended to continue the committee's goal of fighting communism ( i. e., The Union of the St. Andrew Flag ; the Committee of United Vlasovites, or Vlasovtsy, followers of Vlasov ; the Union of Battle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia ), started by veterans of the committee and the Russian Liberation Army who managed to escape forced repatriation to the Soviet Union.

The Democratic Constitutional Congress elected in its place in November 1992 did not take up the investigation again nor publish the senatorial committee's preliminary findings.

Parliament rejected this solution but enacted the committee's recommendations in a weaker form, including the setting up of an Electricity Commission and a number of Joint Electricity Authorities:

When Belcourt's bill came up for debate, DeVeber scolded him on the floor of the Senate for misrepresenting the committee's report as being much more supportive of the bill than it actually was ; in the estimation of University of Ottawa law professor Jamie Benidickson, DeVeber's comments assured the bill's defeat.

The committee's formal responsibilities are to examine the expenditure, administration and policies of the security and intelligence agencies as laid down in statute ; the Secret Intelligence Service, the Security Service and Government Communications Headquarters.

In a gesture of protest against the National Film Awards committee's bias in awarding popular and mainstream cinema, he turned down the 2001 Special Jury Award for Best Actor.

As a result of the committee's work, trees were cut down and new ones planted in their place.