committee reads the amendments with the coherence in the paper,
explaining the alterations and reasons of the committee for the
amendments, till he has gone through the whole. If the report is very
long, it is not usually read until the assembly is ready to consider it
[see §§ 31 and 44].

When the report has been received, whether it has been read or not, the
committee is thereby dissolved, and can act no more without it is
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.

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31. Adoption of Reports. 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. If the
report contains merely a statement of opinion or facts, the motion
should be to "accept" the report; if it also concludes with resolutions
or certain propositions, the motion should be to "agree to" the
resolutions, or to "adopt" the propositions. After the above motion is
made, the matter stands before the assembly exactly the same as if there
had been no committee, and the subject had been introduced by the motion
of the member who made the report. [See § 34 for his privileges in
debate, and § 44 for the method of treating a report containing several
propositions, when being considered by the assembly.]

32. Committee of the Whole. When an assembly has to consider a subject