2 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



A vacancy continues to exi.st in the Establishment caused b}' the 

 succession to the Presidenc}^ of Vice-President Roosevelt. 



As organized on June 30, 190-i, the Establishment consisted of the 

 following ex officio members: 



Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. 



(Vacancy), Yice- President of the United States. 



Melville W. 'Fvia.ts.u, Chief Justice of the United States. 



John Hay, Secretary of State. 



Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. 



AViLLiAM H. Taft, Secretary of War. 



Philander C. Knox, Attorney- General. 



Heney C. Pay^ne, Postmaster- General. 



William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy . 



Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior. 



James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



George V>. Cortely'ou, Secretary of Commerce and Pahor. 



organization of the board of regents. 



The Board of Regents consists of the Vice-President and the Chief 

 Justice of the United States as ex officio members, three membei's of 

 the Senate, three members of the House of Representatives, and six 

 citizens, "two of whom shall be residents of the city of Washington 

 and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of 

 them of the same State." 



As organized at the end of the fiscal .year, the Board consisted of the 

 following mem))ers: 



The Hon. M. W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States, Chan- 

 cellor; the Hon. W. P. Fiye, President pro tempore of the United 

 States Senate, acting as Regent; Senator S. M. Cullom; Senator O. H. 

 Piatt; Senator Francis M. Cockrell; Representative R. R. Hitt; Rep- 

 resentative Robert Adams, jr.; Representative Hugh A. Dinsmore; 

 Dr. James B. Angell, of Michigan; Dr. Andrew D. White, of New 

 York; the Hon. J. B. Henderson, of Washington City; Prof. A. Gra- 

 ham Bell, of Washington Cit^'; the Hon. Richard Olnej, of Massachu- 

 setts, and the Hon. (jeorge Gray, of Delaware. 



meetings of the board of regents. 



At a meeting of the Board of Regents held March 12, 1903, the fol- 

 lowing resolution was adopted: 



'"''Pesolved, That in addition to the prescribed meeting held on the 

 fourth Wednesday in Jamiary, regular meetings of the Board shall be 

 held on the Tuesday after the first Monday in December and on the 

 6th day of March, unless that date falls on Sunday, when the follow- 

 ing Monday shall be substituted/' 



