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50 (a) to consider and report on a resolution; or

(b) to consider a subject and report recommendations for the society's action; or

(c) to attend to some other business for the assembly.

(a) When a resolution is referred to a committee, the committee may agree to recommend its adoption or rejection in its present shape, or it may recommend the adoption of the resolution after it has been amended in a specified manner. If the resolution when committed had amendments pending, the committee should recommend what action should be taken on these amendments as well as on the resolution.

(b) In this case the committee considers the subject informally and then usually appoints one member to draft a report, which, after giving the necessary information, should close with resolutions for the assembly to adopt. These resolutions should be complete so as to cover all action which the assembly should take in order to carry out the recommendations of the committee. This draft is open to discussion and amendment by the committee before its adoption by them.

(c) Committees may be appointed to investigate matters and report the facts without any recommendations, or to perform a certain duty. In the latter case the committee is usually required to make a report to the society of what it has done.

The committee's report must be adopted by a