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Communications and a memorial from Mr. Blodget to the Board 

 were then read and ordered to he on the table. 



The report of the Executive Committee was then adopted unani- 

 mously. 



It being stated to the Board by Mr. Choate on behalf of Mr. C. C. 

 Jewett that he did not design, for reasons stated by him, to ask the ac- 

 tion of the regents at their present meeting on his memorial of the 3d 

 July last, communicated to the Board through the Secretary, Mr. Ma- 

 son moved that the said paper be returned by the Secretary to Mr. 

 Jewett. 



On motion the memorial to the Board was then read. 



Mr. Choate then requested permission in behalf of Mr. Jewett to 

 withdraw the memorial, which was granted. 



The Secretary then stated to the Board that he had deemed it his 

 duty since its last session to remove Mr. Charles C. Jewett from the 

 office of assistant to the Secretary. He deeply regretted the necessity 

 which he had been under to exercise this authority, declared to be 

 vested in him by the Board, and for the present he rested his reasons 

 for the act on the character of a paper submitted by Mr. Jewett to the 

 select committee on the distribution of the income, and upon the 

 opinion in regard to that paper expressed by the committee to which it 

 was submitted. 



Mr. Pearce offered the Ibllowing: 



The Secretary having stated to the Board that since the last meeting 

 of the Regents in 1854 he had removed Mr. Jewett, under the author- 

 ity declared to be vested in him by the resolution of July 8, 1854. 



Resolved, That while the Board regret the necessity of Mr. Jevv^ett's 

 removal, they approve of the act of the Secretary. 



Resolved, That this approval by the Board is not deemed by them to 

 be essential to the validity of the act of the Secretary in so removing 

 Mr. Jewett. 



The Board then adjourned to meet on Monday, January 15, at ten 

 o'clock. 



MONDAY, January- 15, 1855. 



The Board of Regents met to-day at ten o'clock. 



Present: Tiie Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, 

 Douglas, Hawley, Mason, Pearce, Rush, Towers and Totten. 



The Chancellor, took the chair, and the minutes of the last meeting 

 were read and approved. 



Mr. Pearce's resolutions offered at the last meeting on Saturday were 

 then taken up. 



The question being taken on the first resolution, it was adopted. 

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

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



Nays. — Messrs. Douglas, Towers — 2. 



The second resolution was then taken up and adopted. 



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

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



Nays. — Messrs. Douglas, Towers — 2. 



