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§ 30] 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.

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” now or at some other specified time.