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§ 31] revived by a vote to recommit. If the report is recommitted, all the parts of the report that have not been agreed to by the assembly are ignored by the committee as if the report had never been made.

If any member or members wish to submit a minority report (or reports) it is customary to receive it immediately after receiving the report of the committee; but it cannot be acted upon unless a motion is made to substitute it for the report of the committee.

When the assembly is to consider a report, a motion should be made to “adopt,” “accept,” or “agree to” the report, all of which, when carried, have the same effect, namely, to make the doings of the committee become the acts of the assembly, the same as if done by the assembly without the intervention of a committee. While these motions are generally used indiscriminately, and all have the same effect, still it would probably be better to vary the motion according to the character of the report. Thus if the report contains merely a statement of opinion or facts, the best form of the motion is to “accept the report;” if it also concludes with resolutions or orders, the motion would