Note Return to text — Chapter XV · OF COMMITTEES.

304. Second. A committee of the whole cannot adjourn, like other committees, to some other time or place, for the purpose of going on with and completing the consideration of the subject referred to them; but if their business is unfinished, at the usual time for the assembly to adjourn, or, for any other reason, they wish to proceed no further at a particular time, the form of proceeding is, for some member to move that the committee rise,—report progress,—and ask leave to sit again; and, if this motion prevails, the chairman rises,—the presiding officer resumes the chair of the assembly,—and the chairman of the committee informs him that the committee of the whole have, according to order, had under their consideration such a matter, and have made some progress therein;[Footnote 40] but, not having had time to go through with the same, have directed him to ask leave for the committee to sit again. The presiding officer thereupon puts a question on giving the committee leave to sit again, and also on the time when, the assembly will again resolve itself into a committee. If leave to sit again is not granted, the committee is of course dissolved.