REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. ]>\) 



unanimous vote, passed a joint resolution asking the United 

 States to reassmne ownership of said property, and that a 

 western branch of the National Museum be established at the 

 Palace: Now, therefore, be it 



Resolved (if the council concur), That this legislature con 

 siders that the appropriate future of the palace should be as 

 the home of the great collections of archaeological and other 

 antiquities of New Mexico and the Southwest. 



Resolved, That we request the authorities in charge of the 

 National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution to establish 

 a southwestern museum of the character hereinbefore indi- 

 cated as the palace property, with the ancient palace itself as 

 the center. 



Resolved, That the Territorial board of public lands be 

 authorized and directed to convey said palace property either 

 to the United States or to the Smithsonian Institution, upon 

 the condition that a branch either of the National Museum or 

 the museum of the Smithsonian Institution be established and 

 maintained therein; that the palace building be preserved in 

 good order and without material changes in its general struc- 

 ture and appearance forever; that the New Mexico Historical 

 Society be allowed such space in said building as it may require 

 for the proper exhibition of its collection of New Mexican 

 antiquities and other objects illustrating the history of the 

 Territory as a part of said general exhibition; that the exhi- 

 bition rooms in said building be open to the public without 

 charge forever; and that no expense for arrangement or main- 

 tenance of said building and its contents be a charge on New 

 Mexico or any civil division thereof. 



Inasmuch as the offer on the part of the Territory of New 

 Mexico, if accepted by the Smithsonian Institution, would 

 involve the transfer of valuable real estate in the city of Santa 

 Fe, the Secretary has held the question of acceptance for such 

 action as the Board of Regents may deem desirable. 



NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The National Museum is visited annually by about a quarter 

 of a million persons, and each one seems to desire to examine 

 as many as possible of its treasures, now numbering nearly 

 5,000,000 objects pertaining to the anthropological, biological, 

 and geological sciences. 



Through its publications and its correspondence the Museum 

 reaches everywhere, giving to the world information of a 

 technical or of a popular character concerning the American 

 and alien races of men and their habits, the life history of 



