SPECIAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



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Smithsonian Institution, under wliose supervision the Museum has been 

 erected. 



^^Besolved, That the use of the new National Museum buikling be 

 granted for the inaugural reception of the President of the United States 

 on the 4th of March, 1881, and^ that the Secretary be authorized to 

 make all necessary arrangements for this i)urpose." 



Eespectfully submitted. 



PETER PARKER, 

 W. T. SHERMAI^, 

 Executive Committee. 



Washington, 8th Becemler, 1880. 



