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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
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ber who concurs. The report is not usually dated or addressed, but can be headed, as, for example, “Report of the Finance Committee of the Y. P. A., on Renting a Hall.” The report of a committee should generally close or be accompanied with formal resolutions covering all their recommendations, so that the adopting of their report [§ 31] would have the effect to adopt all the resolutions necessary to carry out their recommendations.[1]

30. Reception of Reports. When the report of a committee is to be made, the Chairman (or member appointed to make the report) informs the assembly that the committee to whom was referred such a subject or paper, has directed him to make a report thereon, or report it with or without amendment, as the case may be; either he or any other member may move that it be “received”[2] now or at some other specified time.


  1. If the report of a committee were written in this form, ‘‘Your committee think the conduct of Mr. A at the last meeting so disgraceful that they would recommend that he be expelled from the society,” the adoption of the report would not have the effect to expel the member.
  2. A very common error is, after a report has been read, to move that it be received; whereas the fact that it has been read shows that it has been already received by the assembly. Another mistake, less common, but dangerous, is to vote that the