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68 question then before the asesmblyassembly [sic] is on the adoption on rejection of the report. A vote to accept a report is equivalent to adopting it.

When a committee's report is adopted, accepted, or agreed to, it becomes the action of the assembly the same as if done by the assembly without the intervention of a committee.

64. When no time is fixed for the report, the proper procedure is: when the committee or some member reports that the committee is ready to report, the assembly may by vote receive the report then, or at some future time; when said report is read then take steps toward the adoption of rejection of such report; the fact that the assembly has voted to receive the report only indicates that the assembly is willing to take up its consideration. Should the committee recommends amendments, the amendments so recommended should be first voted on, because they are in fact offered by the assembly itself, which created the committee and gave it power to act. When