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lutions of the Select Committee on the distribution of the income, the 

 first resolution was read, namely : 



Resolved, That the seventh resolution passed by the Board of 

 Regents on the 26ih of January, 1847, requiring an equal division of 

 the income between the active operations and the museum and hbrary 

 when the buildings are completed, be and it is hereby repealed. 



Remarks were made by Messrs. Choate, Pearce, Douglas, and 

 Berrien. 



On motion of Mr. Mason the yeas and nays were ordered. 



The question was then taken on the adoption of the first resolution as 

 follows : 



Yeas. — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, 

 Hawley, Mason, Pearce, Rush, and Totten — 8. 



Nays. — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, English, Meacham, Stuart, and 

 Towers — 6. 



The second resolution was then read : 



Resolved. That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be appor- 

 tioned specifically among the different objects and operations of the 

 Institution in such manner as may, in the judgment of the regents, be 

 necessary and proper for each, according to its intrinsic importance, 

 and a compliance in good faith with the law. 



The question being taken on this resolution it was adopted. 



Yeas. — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, 

 Hawle}^ Mason, Pearce, Rush, Totten, Towers — 9. 



Nays. — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, Enghsh, Meacham, and Stuart — 5. 



Mr. Meacham then offered the Ibllowing resolution, which was the 

 first reported by him in his minority report, namely : 



Resolved, That a compliance in good faith with the letter and spirit 

 of the charter of the Smithsonian Institution, requires that a large propor- 

 tion of the income of the Institution should be appropriated " for the 

 gradual formation of a library composed of valuable works pertaining 

 to all departments of human knowledge." 



The question being taken on this resolution it was lost. 



Yeas. — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, Meacham, and Stuart — 4. 



Nays. — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, 

 English, Hawley, Mason, Rush, Pearce, and Totten — 9. 



Mr. Meacham's second resolution was then read, namely: 



Resolved, That the expenditures for the library shall be made under 

 the direction of a " library committee" of three members, to be annually 

 elected by the Board of Regents from members not upon the Executive 

 Committee, or upon other committees which may be appointed to 

 superintend the affairs of other departments or objects of the Institution. 



The question being taken on this resolution it was lost. 



Yeas. — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, and Meacham — 3. 



Nays. — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, 

 English, Hawley, Mason, Pearce, Rush, Stuart, and Totten — ]0. 

 On motion of Mr. Pearce the following resolution was adopted. 

 Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the Chancellor 

 lo confer with a Committee of the Estabhshment as to suitable means 

 of communication between the two bodies, and to report thereon at a 

 subsequent meeting of the regents. 



