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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
