169 [ 23 ] 



the 17th of February next, amounting in all to tlie sum of $25,646^ be 

 appropriated as follows — that is to say: 



1. To the publication of the first volume of the Sniithonian Contribu- 

 tions to Science, two thousand dollars; being one thousand dollars in ad- 

 dition to the thousand dollars appropriated for this object by resolution 

 of the 26th of January last. 



2. To the publication of one thousand copies of a brief treatise, to be 

 entitled " Hints on Public Architecture," heretofore authorized to be pub- 

 lished by the building committee, to be illustrated with designs of the in- 

 stitution buildings, &c,, two thousand dollars; being one thousand dol- 

 lars in addition to the thousand dollars appropriated for this object by reso- 

 lution of the 5th of February last. 



3. For experiments heretofore authorized to be instituted to determine 

 the economical value of building-materials throughout the United States, 

 five hundred dollars; being the same sum appropriated for that object by 

 resolution of the 1st of March last, but still unexpended. 



4. To purchase philosophical and chemical apparatus, one thousand dol- 

 lars; being a portion of the four thousand dollars appropriated for this ob- 

 ject by resolution of the 4th of Decend3er last. 



5. To part of salary of the Secretary, fifteen hundred dollars. 



6. To the building fund, seventeen thousand dollars. 



7. To incidental expenses and contingencies, including the expenses of 

 the board and its committees, sixteen hundred and forty- six dollars, or so 

 much of that sum as may be required for these purposes. 



Resolved, That during each of the four years next following the 19th 

 of March, 1848, being the four years throughout which the unexpired 

 term of the building contract runs, the proportion of expenditure shall be 

 as follows — that is to say: out of the interest annually accruing to the in- 

 stitution, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in each year may be appro- 

 priated for the current expenses of the institution, exclusive of all expendi- 

 tures whatever properly belonging to the building hind, but including the 

 expense of the board and its cornniittees, the salaries of officers, includhig 

 messenger, the expense of all publications, researches, or other similar 

 undertakings, the purchase of books and apparatus, and all incidentals 

 whatever, not connected with the expenditure on the building or grounds. 

 And the remainder of the interest accruing to the institution shall, during 

 each of these four years, be appropriated to the building fund. 



Resolved, That it is the deliberate opinion of this board that the enUre 

 cost of the institution building— including the complete fitting up and fur- 

 nishing of the same; lighting and heating, ventilating and draining the 

 same; supplying the same with water; laying out in grass and planting in 

 trees and shrubs the lot, fencing the same, both widi the present temporary 

 fence and the ultimate permanent one; also all expenses lor superintend- 

 ence of erection, including the cost of architect's office and other incidentals; 

 so as to cover all expenses whatever that have been and are to be incurred 

 on the building and on the lot on which it stands, until the comple- 

 tion of the building and of the preparation of the lot, up to the IJth 

 of March, 1852— shall under no circumstances exceed the sum expended 

 thereon up to the 1st of this month, to wit: the sum of twenty- five thou- 

 sand dollars, and seventeen thousand dollars by a preceding resolution 

 appropriated to the building fund; together with the annually accruing 

 interest over $15,000 in each of the four years next following the lyth ot 



