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tors so appointed shall serve during the term for which they shall hold, 

 without re-election, their office as senators. And vacancies, occasioned 

 by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled as vacancies in com- 

 mittees are filled ; and the other six members aforesaid shall serve, two 

 for two 3"ears, two for four years, and two for six years ; the terms of 

 service, in the first place, to be determined by lot ; but after the first 

 term, then their regular term of service shall be six years ; and new 

 elections thereof shall be made by joint resolution of Congi-ess ; and 

 vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, may be filled 

 in like manner, by joint resolution of Congress. And the said Regents 

 shall meet in the city of Washington on the first Monday of September 

 next after the passage of this act, and organize by the election of one of 

 their number as Chancellor, who shall be the presiding officer of said 

 Board of Regents, by the name of the Chancellor of the " Smithsonian 

 Institution," and a suitable person as Secretary of said Institution, who 

 shall also be the Secretary of said Board of Regents ; said Board shall 

 also elect three ot"lheir own body as an Executive Committee, and said 

 Regents shall then fix on the time ihr the regular meetings of said 

 Board; and on application of an\' three of" the Regents to the vSecretary 

 of the said Institution, it shall be his duty to appoint a special meeting 

 of the Board of Regents, of which he shall give notice b}^ letter to each 

 of the members; and at any meeting of said Board, five shall constitute 

 a (]uorum to do business. And each member of said Board shall be 

 paid his necessary travelling and other actual expenses in attending 

 meetings of the Board, which shall be audited by the Executive Com- 

 mittee, and recorded by the Secretary of said Board ; but his services 

 as Regent shall be gratuitous. And whenever money is required for 

 the payment of the debts or performance of the contracts of the Institu- 

 tion, incurred or entered into in conformity with the provisions of this 

 act, or for making the purchases and executing the objects authorized 

 by this act, the Board of Regents, or the Executive Committee thereof, 

 may certify to the Chancellor and Secretary of the Board that such sum 

 of money is required ; whereupon, they shall examine the same, and, 

 if they shall approve thereof^, shall certify the same to the proper officer 

 oftlie treasury for payment. And the said Board shall submit to Con- 

 gi'ess, at each session thereof, a report of the operations, expenditures, 

 and condition of the Institution. 



Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That after the Board of Regents 

 shall have met, and become organized, it shall be their duty forthwith 

 to proceed to select a suitable site for such building as may be neces- 

 sary for the Institution ; which ground may be taken and appropriated 

 out of that part of the public ground in the city of Washington, lying 

 between the Patent Office and Seventh street: Provided, The President 

 of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Com- 

 missioner of the Patent Office, shall consent to the same ; but if the 

 persons last named shall not consent, then such location may be made 

 upon any other of the public grounds within the city of Washington, 

 belonging to the United States, wifich said Regents may select, by and 

 with the consent of the persons herein named; and the said ground so 

 selected shidl be set out by proper metes and bounds, and a descrip- 



