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appropriations therein recommended for the ensuing year were 

 ordered to be made, viz: 



Total, ^2700 



Pending nomination No. 394, and new nominations Nos. 

 395, 396, were read. 



The Annual Report of the Publication Committee, postponed 

 from the last meeting, was read. 



The Committee on the sale of the Hall reported the following 

 recommendation, which was adopted: — 



Resolved, That the President be requested to prepare and cause to 

 be presented to the Congress of the United States a respectful memo- 

 rial, in the name of the Society, setting forth the facts connected with 

 the sale of the Hall of the Society to the United States, the action of 

 the Officers of the Government thereon, and the authority given by 

 Congress to sell the Hall as the properly of the United States, and 

 requesting the passage of a law directing the acceptance of the con- 

 veyance tendered by the Society for said property, and the payment 

 of the purchase money due to it therefore. Signed F. Fraley, Charles 

 B. Trego, Isaac Hays, VV. Parker Foulko. 



The resignations of Henry A. Boardman and George M. 

 Wharton, members, were again read and accepted. 



The deferred special business of the evening being in order, 

 Judge Thompson's amendment to Mr. Fraley's substitute was 

 discussed, and both amendment and substitute adopted. 



Amendments to Chapter VH. were then adopted, and the 

 Society adjourned. 



