so. The report is not usually dated. When the chairman reports he should move the adoption of the resolutions. If he neglects this duty any member may make the motion; or the chair may state the question on the adoption without any motion, since the mere submission of the resolutions is practically a motion that they be adopted. Since the committee consists of more than one person, it is not necessary that the motion to adopt be seconded. When the chair has stated the question on adopting the resolutions they are open to debate and amendment exactly as if they had been offered by a member. In case the committee makes recommendations and neglects to submit resolutions to carry them out, the recommendations should all be repeated at the close of the report and the committee's chairman should move their adoption. If this motion is adopted the recommendations become the recommendations of the assembly the same as if it had originated them. It is seldom that a report should contain recommendations without resolutions to carry them out.
(c) In case the committee reports merely facts or opinions without recommendations, no motion is made nor is a vote taken for the adoption of the report, but as soon as the report is read the presiding officer announces the next business in order.
When the report is made, it is handed to the chairman if in writing and the committee is automatically discharged. While a resolution or any subject is in
