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 guidelines recommended that animals require the freedoms to " stand up, lie down, turn around, groom themselves and stretch their limbs ".

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.

On 22 May 1787, at the inaugural meeting of the Committee — nine Quakers and three Anglicans ( who strengthened the committee's likelihood of influencing Parliament )-Sharp's position was unanimously agreed.

The committee's consensus, arrived at in a meeting held June 1, 1945, is described as follows in the meeting's log:

Although the committee's recommendation was addressed to Stimson, Byrnes went directly from the June 1 meeting to brief Truman, who reportedly concurred with the committee's opinion.

In a meeting on May 21, ContentGuard appears to have presented a new version of XrML, 2. 1, as the starting point for the committee's work.

However, neither Syria nor Lebanon adopted the committee's suggestion, and neither country took any action along the suggested lines.

The committee's final report took credit for providing 56, 037 free appearances by 4, 147 persons in 7, 700 events, including 13, 555 playing days by 176 persons on 122 overseas tours.

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.

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

The AID committee's chairman in charge of the redecoration, Mrs. Henry Francis Lenygon, was in town yesterday to consult with White House staff members on the project.

By November the Deputy General Minister and President, William Howland, suggested that the committee's staff consultant and chairperson agree on a specific proposal and bring it back to the committee: that meant Robert L. Friedly of the Office of Interpretation and Ronald E. Osborn.

* Stephen King's novel Carrie includes many excerpts from a fictional committee's findings on the events in the novel, as well as excerpts from a book on the events in the novel titled The Shadow Exploded.

In 1669 Pepys had to prepare detailed answers to the committee's eight ' Observations ' on the Navy Board's conduct, and in 1670 he was forced to defend his own role.

The committee's report stated that the clause defining the northern boundary depended on " a fact not yet ascertained " ( the location of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan ), and the members " thought it unnecessary to take it provision, at the time, into consideration.

The committee's 447 page report, made public on November 29, 1977, reported on plans by the National Intelligence Service ( South Korea ) ( KCIA ) to manipulate American institutions to the advantage of South Korean government policies, overtly and covertly.

Eighty-one pages ( pages 311 to 392 ) of the report presented the committee's findings on Sun Myung Moon, the Unification Church, and what the committee termed " the Moon Organization.

Their reports and the committee's written views and concerns are available on the committee's website.

If the need arises, the members of either house can force a committee to take action on a bill, or they can ignore the committee's recommendations.

This was revealed by a declassified interview with then-US National Security Council minutekeeper Robert Johnson released in August 2000 from Senate intelligence committee's inquiry on covert action.

Countering Terrorist Finance: The Central Bank of Sudan and its financial intelligence unit circulated to financial institutions a list of individuals and entities that have been included on the UN 1267 al-Qa ’ ida and Taliban sanctions committee's Consolidated List.

Johnson chaired a House committee to report on the subject, and delivered the committee's report on January 17, 1832.

" The committee's recommendation for establishing a permanent independent research laboratory on the East Coast to " prosecute oceanography in all its branches " led to the founding in 1930 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Each council member is appointed by the Mayor to one of six standing committee's during the Annual Reorganization Meeting held on January 1 of each year.

On the basis of his studies of international heads of state, Duffy was one of six people ( including Sir Ellis Clarke, the former Governor-General and President of Trinidad and Tobago ) commissioned in 1993 by Australia's Republic Advisory Committee to prepare reports on international republican experiences — to appear as an appendix to the committee's main report.

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.

" The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried.