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August 30. — 111 conference committee the Senate receded 

 from the above. 



Senate, August 31, 1852. 



On motion by Mr. Dodge, of Iowa, it was — 



Ordered, That instead of the distribution of Owen's Report heretofore 

 ordered, there bo furnished to the General Land Office 100 copies, to the 

 Smithsonian Institution 100 copies, and to Dr. Owen 200 copies. 



Senate, December 21, 1852. 



•Mr. Pearce. There are two vacancies in the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, which it is very 

 desirable and necessary should soon be filled. I therefore 

 ask leave to introduce a joint resolution. The resolution 

 was read a first and second time, and considered by the 

 Senate as in Committee of the Whole ; reported without 

 amendment; read a third time and passed. 



The resolution is as follows ; 



Resolved, ^c, That the vacancies in the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, of the class "other than members of Congress," be 

 filled by the appointment of Alexander Dallas Bache, of the city of Wash- 

 ington, and John McPherson Berrien, of the State of Georgia. 



The resolution was approved January 13, 1853, as Public 

 Resolution No. 6. 



Senate, March 1, 1853. 



The President pro tempore laid before the Senate the 

 seventh annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Mr. Hunter, from the Finance Committee offered the fol- 

 lowing amendment to the Civil and Diplomatic appropria- 

 tion bill, which was agreed to : 



" To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and hire of laborers on 

 the improvements of Reservation No. 2, on public Mall, between Seventh 

 and Twelfth streets west, $5,276.52." 



Senate, March 3, 1853. 



The report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution was ordered to be printed. 



PROCEEDINGS IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



House of Representatives, January 2, 1852. 



The Speaker, in pursuance of the act of Congress, an- 

 nounced the names of the following gentlemen as Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution : Messrs. William F. Colcock, 



