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AprilG, 1S47. 



Dear Sir: On consulting with the Commissioner of Public Build- 

 ings in relation to the use, by the committee, of the old fence around the 

 mall, between 7lh and 12th streets, to enclose the lot of the institution, 

 between the same points, he agrees to allow so much of the same as is 

 necessary for this purpose. 



I have made an estimate to determine what the expense would be of 

 removing, repairing, and enclosing this open fence with a five feet height 

 of palings, and found it would amount to four hundred dollars. 



The circuit of these grounds is 3,680 feet. 



Mr. r3ixon reports that the expense of conducting the water from the 

 Market-house pipe to the building, will cost six hundred and fifty dollars. 



Respectfully submitted. 



ROBERT MILLS, 

 Assistant Architect and SupH Smithsonian Institution. 



To the Hon. Robert Dale Owen, 



Chairman of the Building Committee 



of tiie ISmilhsonian Institution. 



On motion of Mr. Seaton, it was 



Resolved, That, for the purpose of conveying to the building a supply 

 of water, as well for the builders as for the pernjanent uses of the institu- 

 tion, the consent of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings be re- 

 quested for drawing a supply from the water plug at the Centre Market- 

 house, to be conveyed thence, by a leaden pipe, to the institution. 



Resolved^ That an arrangement be made with some responsible con- 

 tractor for laying said pipes, provided the cost thereof does not exceed 

 $650. 



Resolved, That the resolution of the 30th ultimo, in regard to the dig- 

 ging two wells, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded. 



Resolved, That Mr. Downer, or some other responsible person, be em- 

 ployed to build a substantial paling fence around the institution ground, 

 provided the same cost not more than S'iOO, and that the fence be as high 

 as the present rails will permit with safety. 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



TWENTY-SECOND MEETING— April 9, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton and Owen. 



Mr. Owen stated to the committee that he had spoken with one of the 

 Regents, Mr. A. D. Bache, on the subject of procuring a steel plate of the 

 Girard College, from the managers of the said institution, on the same 

 terms proposed to Mr. Stewart, as mentioned in his (Mr. O.'s) report of 

 April 6; and that Mr. Bache promised to write on the subject to the prin- 

 cipal manager of the Girard College, and to communicate the result to the 

 committee. 



Mr. Owen also stated that he had written on the same subject to Mr. 

 Richard Rush, Regent, from Philadelphia, requesting him to use his in- 

 fluence to procure for us the said plate. 



Mr. Seaton stated that he was about to write a similar letter to 

 Mr. Ogden Hoffman, one of the vestrymen of Calvary church. New 



