REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



By the organiziug act approved August 10, 1846, Eevised Statutes, 

 title Ixxiii, section 5580, " Tlie business of the Institution shall be con- 

 ducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Eegents, named the 

 Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vice- 

 President, the Chief Justice of the United States, [and the Governor of 

 the District of Columbia,] three members of the Senate, and three mem- 

 bers of the House of Eepresentatives, 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." 



REGENTS FOB TEE YEAR 1881. 



Term expires. 



The Vice-President : 



William A. Wheeler Mar. 4, 1881 



Chester A. Arthur (became President) Sept. 19, 1881 



David Davis (pro tem.) Mar. 4, 1883 



The Chief Justice, Morrisox R. Waite. 



United States Senators : 



George F. Hoar (fiom Feb. 21,1881) Mar. 4,1883 



Nathaniel P. Hill (from May 19, 1881) Mar. 4,1885 



SajiuelB. Maxey (from May 19, 1881) Mar. 4,1887 



Members of the House of Representatives : 



Hiester Clymer Dec. 28,1881 



James A. Garfield Dec. 28, 1881 



Joseph E. Johnston Deo. 28, 1881 



Citizens of Washington : 



Peter Parker (appointed in 1868) Dec. 19,1885 



William T. Sherman (appointed in 1871 ) Mar. 25, 1885 



Citizens of a State: 



John Maclean, of New Jersey (appointed in 1868) Dec. 19,1885 



Asa Gray, of Massachusetts (appointed in 1874) -Dec. 19, 1885 



Henry CoppIiie, of Pennsylvania (appointed in 1874) Dec. 19,1885 



Noah Porter, of Connecticut (appointed in 1878) Jan. 26,1884 



Morrison R. Waite, Chancellor of the Institution and President of the Board of 



Regenta, 



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