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120 



[Note. — On inqniry, I learn that the above bid includes all materials^ 

 though not expressly so stated. 



ROBERT DALE OWEN.] 



Laid on the table. 



Ordered, That, for the present^ the services of Wm. McPeak^ messen- 

 ger, be dispensed with. 



On motion of ]Mr. Owen, 



Resolved, That the architect be authorized to cause to be erected on the 

 ground a secure temporary building, as an office for the said architect, 

 provided the same shall not cost over two hundred dollars. 



The chairman stated to the committee the request of Mr. Mills, the su- 

 perintendent, that he be allowed the use of the lower rooms in the City 

 Hall which were granted by the corporation to the building committee, 

 until the same are required by the committee. 



Ordcrcdy That Mr. Mills be allowed the use of said rooms accordingly. 

 On motion of Mr. Owen, it was 



Resolved, That the city surveyor be requested to make out a plat of the 

 grounds of the Smithsonian Institution, laying down the levels at each 

 intersection of one hundred feet. 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



TWENTY-THIRD MEETING— April 10, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton and Owen. 



Mr. Owen submitted for consideration the following resolutions, relative 

 to the work on '^ Public Architecture," of which the preparation had been 

 intrusted to him: 



Resolved, That the work on '^ Public Architecture," to be published by 

 the couimittee, contain a comparative review of the advantages, economy, 

 and facility of adaptation to modern purposes, of v^ious styles of public 

 architecture, particularly the Grecian, modern Italian, Gothic of different 

 ages, and Norman; giving the actual cost, compared to extent of accom- 

 modations, of some of the principal pubHc edifices in the United States, in 

 the various styles, including some of the public buildings in Washington, 

 and others erected by the general government. 



Resolved, That, so far as the funds permit, the said work contain illus- 

 trations, in the best style of art, representing such among the public buildings 

 of the United States as exhibit the purest specimens of architecture, in 

 various styles, including two perspective views of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, on steel; one perspective view of the gotliic plan submitted for 

 competition by Mr. James Renwick, jr., architect of the institution; one 

 perspective view of the Norman plan submitted by Mr. Haviland, provided 

 he (Mr. H.) will, at his own cost, reduce the drawing to the required size; 

 one perspective view either of the plan submitted by Mr. Arnot, or that 

 submitted by Mr. Notman, provided the architect will, at his own cost, 

 reduce the drawing to the rerpiired size; one geometrical elevation of the 

 Italian plan submitted by Mr. Daniel, of Cincinnati, provided he will re- 

 duce the same; also ground plans and geometrical elevations of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, and one or two interiors of die same. 



Resolved, That application be made, in the proper quarters, for plates of 

 the following public edifices, to wit: 



