"Report of the Finance Committee of the Y. P. A., on Renting a Hall."

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"* [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 report
be accepted (which is equivalent to adopting it, see § 31), when the
intention is only to have the report up for consideration and afterwards
move its adoption. Still a third error is to move that "the report be
adopted and the committee discharged," when the committee have reported
in full and their report been received, so that the committee has
already ceased to exist. If the committee however have made but a
partial report, or report progress, then it is in order to move that the
committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject.]
now or at some other specified time.

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Usually the formality of a vote on the reception of a report of a
committee is dispensed with, the time being settled by general consent.
Should any one object, a formal motion becomes necessary. When the time
arrives for the assembly to receive the report, the chairman of the
committee reads it in his place, and then delivers it to the clerk, when
it lies on the table till the assembly sees fit to consider it. If the
report consists of a paper with amendments, the chairman of the