REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



By 'the organizing act approved August 10, 1846, Be vised Statutes,, 

 title Lxxin, section 5580, " The business of the Institution shall be con- 

 ducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vice- 

 President, the Chief Justice of the United States [and the Governor of 

 the District of Columbia], three members of the Senate, and three mem- 

 bers of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, 

 other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the 

 city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some 

 State, but no two of them of the same State." 



BEGENTS FOB THE YEAB 1883. 



Term expires. 

 The Vice-President of the United States : 



David Davis {pro tern.) Mar. 3, 1883 



George F. Edmunds (elected March 3, 1883) Mar. 3, 1885 



The Chief Justice of the United States: 

 Morrison R. Watte. 



United States Senators: 



George F. Hoar (from Feb. 21, 1881. Resigned Jan. 19, 1883) Mar. 3, 1883 



Nathaniel P. Hill (from May 19, 1881) Mar. 3, 1885 



Samuel B. Maxet (from May 19, 1881) Mar. 3, 1887 



George F. Edmunds (appointed Jan. 19, 1883. Resigned Feb. 21, 



1883) Mar. 3, 1885 



Justin S. Morrill (appointed Feb. 21, 1883) Mar. 3, 1885 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



Otqo R. Singleton (appointed Jan. 7, 1884) Deo. 23, 1885 



William L. Wilson (appointed Jan. 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1835 



William W. Phelps (appointed Jan. 7, 1884) Dec. 23, 1885 



Citizens of Washington: 



Peter Parker (first appointed in 1868) Deo. 19,1885 



William T: Sherman (first appointed in 1871) Mar. 25, 1885 



Citizens of a State : 



John Maclean, of New Jersey (first appointed in 1868) Dec. 19, 1885 



Asa Gray, of Massachusetts (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 19, 1885 



Henry Copper, of Pennsylvania (first appointed in 1874) Dec. 19, 1885 



Noah Porter, of Connecticut (appointed in 1878) Jan. 26, 1884 



Morrison R. Waite, Chancellor of the Institution and President of the Board of 



Regents. 

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