THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1853-55. 567 



For many of the views and statecaents in the foregoing 

 report, the committee are indebted to the full and luminous 

 reports of the Board of Regents. From the views enter- 

 tained by the committee, after an impartial examination of 

 the proceedings referred to, the committee have adopted 

 the language of the resolution, " that no action of the Sen- 

 ate is necessary and proper in regard to the Smithsonian 

 Institution;" and this is the unanimous opinion of the committee. 



Senate, March 1, 1855. 



The President pro tempore laid before the Senate a letter 

 of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, communi- 

 cating the ninth annual report of the Board of Regents of 

 that Institution; which was ordered to lie on the table and 

 be printed. 



A motion by Mr. Brodhead to print ten thousand addi- 

 tional copies of the report, was referred to the Committee 

 on Printing. 



Senate, March 2, 1855. 



Mr. Johnson, from the Committee on Printing, reported 

 the following : 



Ordered, That ten thousand additional copies of the ninth annual report 

 of the Board of Kegents of the Smithsonian Institution be printed. 



Mr. Pearce. I move to amend that order by adding 

 "twenty-five hundred of which shall be for the use of the 

 Secretary of the said Institution." 



Mr. Johnson. I am willing to accept that. 



The amendment was agreed to ; and the order, as amend- 

 ed, was adopted. 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. 



House of Representatives, December 5, 1854. 

 Mr. Chandler offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That the special committee to "whom, at the last session of Con- 

 gress, was referred the subject of the investment of the funds of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, be continued with its powers and duties. 



The Speaker. "With the permission of the House, the 

 Chair would remark that all the select committees appointed 

 at the last session expired, as a matter of course, with the 

 last session. If not objected to, a general order will be en- 

 tered to continue those committees which did not report in 

 full at the last session. 



Mr. Rowe. I object. 



