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authority to administer the trust directly, and, therefore, constituted 

 an "estabhshment" whose statutory members are "the President, the 

 Vice President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of the executive 

 departments." 



THE BOARD OF REGENTS 



The affairs of the Institution are administered by a Board of 

 Regents whose membership consists of "the Vice President, the Chief 

 Justice, three Members of the Senate, and three Members 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." One of the regents is elected chan- 

 cellor of the board. In the past the selection has fallen upon the Vice 

 President or the Chief Justice, and a suitable person is chosen by the 

 regents as Secretary of the Institution, who is also secretary of the 

 Board of Regents, and the executive officer directly in charge of the 

 Institution's activities. 



No changes occurred in the personnel of the Board during the year. 

 Dr. John C. Merriam, whose 6-year term as a citizen (District of 

 Columbia) regent expired on December 20, 1933, was reappointed as 

 a member of the Board by joint resolution of Congress approved 

 April 20, 1934, for the statutory term of 6 years. 



The roll of regents at the close of the year was as follows: Charles 

 Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States, Chancellor; John 

 N. Garner, Vice President of the United States; members from the 

 Senate— Joseph T. Robinson, M. M. Logan, David A. Reed; mem- 

 bers from the House of Representatives — T. Alan Goldsborough, 

 Edward H. Crump, Charles L. Gifford; citizen members — Irwin B. 

 Laughlin, Pennsylvania; Frederic A. Delano, Washington, D. C; 

 John C. Merriam, Washington, D. C; R. Walton Moore, Virginia; 

 Robert W. Bingham, Kentucky; Augustus P. Loring, Massachusetts. 



Proceedings. — Only one meeting of the full Board was held during 

 the year — the annual meeting on December 14, 1933. The regents 

 present were Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, chancellor. Senator 

 M. M. Logan, Senator David A. Reed, Frederic A. Delano, Hon. 

 Irwin B. Laughlin, Dr. John C. Merriam, Hon. R. Walton Moore, 

 and the Secretary, Dr. Charles G. Abbot. 



The Secretary presented his annual report, detailing the activities 

 of the several Government branches and of the parent Institution 

 during the year, and Mr. Delano presented the report of the executive 

 committee, covering financial statistics of the Institution. The 

 Secretary also presented the annual report of the National Gallery of 

 Art Commission. 



The Secretary presented his usual special report reviewing the 

 outstanding events of the year, emphasizing the urgent need for the 



