2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



A vacaiic}" continues to exist in tlie Establishment caused by the 

 succession to the Presidency of Vice-President Roosevelt. 



As organized on June 30, 1904, the Establishment consisted of the 

 followincr ex officio members: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 



(Vacancy), Yice- President of the United States. 



Melville W. Y\]IA.y.^, Chief Justice of the United States. 



JoHX Hay, Secretary of State. 



Leslip: M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. 



William H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



Philander C. Knox, Attorney- General. 



Henry C. Payne, Postmaster- General. 



William H. Moody, Secretary of the Nary. 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary (f tlte Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of A<jri culture. 



George B. Cortelyou, Secretary of Coninierce and Lahor. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE HOARD OF REGENTS. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the Chief 

 Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three members of 

 the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six 

 citizens, ''two of whom shall be residents of the city of Washington 

 and the other four shall ))e inhabitants of some State. Init no two of 

 them of the same State."" 



As organized at the end of the fiscal year, the Board consisted of the 

 following members: 



The Hon. M. W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chan- 

 cellor; the Hon. W. P. Frye, President pro tempore of the United 

 States Senate, acting as Regent; Senator S. M. Cullom; Senator O. H. 

 Piatt; Senator Francis M. Cockrell; Representative R. R. Hitt; Rep- 

 resentative Robert Adams, jr.; Representative Hugh A. Dinsmore; 

 Dr. James B. Angell, of Michigan; Dr. Andrew D. White, of New 

 York; the Hon. J. B. Henderson, of 'Washington City; Prof. A. Gra- 

 ham Bell, of Washington City; the Hon. Richard Olnej', of Massachu- 

 setts, and the Hon. George Gray, of Delaware. 



:\IKETlN(iS OF THE BOAUD OF REGENTS. 



At a nieeling of the Board of Regents held Mai'ch 12, 1903, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted: 



'^ Resolned^ That in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the 

 fourth Wedn(\sday in January, regular meetings of the Board sliall be 

 held on the Tuesday after the Hrst Monday in December and on the 

 6th day of March, unless that date falls on Sunday, when the follow- 

 ing Mondav shall be substituted/' 



