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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



3farch 2, 1867. — The House rejected the joint resolution 

 of the Senate, providing for the exchange of public docu- 

 ments. Subsequently, on motion of Mr. Laflin, the House 

 reconsidered its action, and passed the resolution. 



March 7, 1867. — The Speaker appointed Mr. Luke P. 

 Poland, of Vermont, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the election of Mr. 

 J. W. Patterson to the United States Senate. 



FORTIETH CONGRESS. 



Senate, January 6, 1868. 

 Mr. Trumbull offered the following resolution: 



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

 sonian Institution of the chiss " other than members of Congress " be filled 

 by the appointment of Theodore D. Woolsey of Connecticut, William B. 

 Astor of New York, John Maclean of New Jersey, and Peter Parker of 

 the city of Washington. 



January 7, 1868. — The above resolution was adopted. 



May 2, 1868. — The President pro tempore laid before the 

 Senate a communication from the Board of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, which was referred to the Commit- 

 tee on Appropriations, and ordered to be printed. (See 

 House, May 1, 1868.) 



May 29, 1868. — Annual report, for 1867, was presented. 

 Mr. Trumbull moved to print 5,000 extra copies. 



May 30, 1868. — Mr. Anthony, from the Committee on 

 Printing, reported the following resolution, which waa 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That 5,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, for the year 1867, be printed ; 3,000 for the use of the Senate, and 

 2,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution, and that the said report 

 be stereotyped : Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report 

 shall not exceed 450, without illustrations, except those furnished by the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



June 16, 1868. — Mr. Harlan presented a report of the 

 Executive Committee of the Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, on the influences of the Washington city canal, 

 on the health of the population of the city ; which was re- 

 ferred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and 

 ordered to be printed. 



(See Smithsonian Report, for 1868, page 111, and Senate Mis. Doc. No. 

 95, 40th Congress, 2d Sess.) 



