JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. XIII 



Dr. Welliug, on behalf of liis colleagues, presented the report of the 

 executive committee to June 30, 1892, which was adopted. 



Dr. Welliug also said that he would here present the usual resolu- 

 tion relative to the income and expenditures of the institution, which 

 was adopted, as follows: 



Eesolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1894, be appropriated for the service of the institution, to be expended by the Secre- 

 tary with the advice of the executive committee, upon tlie basis of the operations 

 described in the last annual report of said committee, with full discretion on the 

 part of the secretary as to items of expenditures properly falling under each of 

 the heads embraced in the established conduct of the institution. 



Dr. Welling then said that at the last regular meeting, the secretary- 

 had presented a statement of the burdens imposed by the need of his 

 pervsonally signing all purely routine money papers, and theboawl had 

 referred a resolution on the subject to the executive committee, with 

 power to act. He would now present the result of their action as fol- 

 lows : 



Washington, D. C, April 15, 1892. 

 Whereas a memlier of the Board of Regents, at their last meeting on January 27, 

 1892, ottered the following resolution: 



"liesolved, That the Secretary be empowered to appoint some suitable person who, 

 incase of need, w.iy sign such requisitions, vouchers, abstracts of vouchers, accounts 

 current, and indorsements of checks and drafts, as are needed in the current business 

 of the Institution or of any of its bureaus, and are customarily signed in the bureaus 

 of other Departments of the Government." 



And whereas this was referred to the executive committee with power to act — 

 Resolved, That the executive committee approve the resolution in the terms pro- 

 posed, and confirm the Secretary in the powers therein mentioned. 



James C. Welling, 

 Henky Coppke, 

 J. B, Henderson, 



Executive Committee. 



Dr. Welling added that the action was taken sim})ly to relieve the 

 Secretary of what was becoming a too heavy tax upon his time and in 

 other ways an increasing burden, and it was to further provide that, in 

 case of his absence, the work of the Institution should not be sus- 

 pended; that he had now power to delegate authority to sign such 

 routine papers. 



The Secretary announced the death of Mr. Thomas G. Hodgkins on 

 November 25, 1892, and read the following obituary notice: 



Mr. Thomas G. Hodgkins, who died at Setauket, Long Island, on November 25, 

 1892, was born in London, England, in 1803. His ancestors were clergymen, and 

 belonged to the class of English gentlemen, but his father, who was in reduced cir- 

 cumstances, was unable to keep him at Eton or Harrow, and sent him to France, 

 where he remained for his education until he was about 15 years old. During this 

 time his language, habits, and manners became rather French than English. 



He returned to England, but troubles with a stepmother made his home anbear- 

 able, and against the urgent entreaty of his father he shipped before the mast in a 

 trading vessel bound for Calcutta. The vessel was wrecked near the mouth of the 



