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PROCEEDINGS 



BOARD OF REGENTS 



SIXTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE BOARD OP REGENTS. 

 [Continued from last Report.] 



Washington, June 5, 1852. 

 The Board of Regents was notified to meet this day at 11 o'clock 

 A quorum not being present, the Board adjourned to August 7, 1852. 



Washington, August 7, 1852. 



The Board of Regents met this evening at 7 J o'clock. Present: 

 Messrs. Colcock, Fitch, Pearce, and Totten. 



Mr. Maury, elected Mayor of Washington, and therefore ex officio 

 Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, appeared and took his seat. 



In the absence of the Chancellor, Mr. Pearce took the chair. 



Mr. Fitch, from the Building Committee, presented to the Board a 

 letter from James Renwick, jr., architect, informing the committee 

 that the building, so far as it was embraced in the contract of Mr. Cam- 

 eron, was completed, and recommending that six thousand dollars be 

 advanced to the contractor from the fifteen per cent, kept back, in 

 advance of Mr. Renwick' s final certificate ; also stating that it would 

 take several days for him to make up his final award. 



Mr. Fitch stated to the Board that there was now a suit pending 

 between Mr. Cameron and his sub-contractor ; and that though the 

 Institution had no interest in this suit, the Regents had been informed 

 that they were a party to the same. The Building Committee, there- 

 fore, thought it advisable to refer this subject to the Board. 



In order to obtain further information on this point, it was, on mo- 

 tion, resolved to postpone the consideration until next meeting. 



Mr. Fitch, from the Building Committee, also presented an account 

 from Mr. Renwick for services from March 1 to June 1, 1852 ; which 

 the committee did not feel themselves authorized to pay without an 

 order from the Board. 



Mr. Fitch also presented, from the same committee, a communica- 

 tion from INIr. Renwick to the B(jard, relative to his compensation, in- 

 cluding another account fbr services to August 1, 1852. 



