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for the year 1873, be printed for the use of the institution : Provided, That 

 the aggregate number of pages of said report shall not exceed four hundred 

 and fifty, and that there shall be no illustrations except those furnished by 

 the Smithsonian Institution. 



The amendment was agreed to. 

 The resolution, as amended, was agreed to. 

 December 10, 1874. — Mr. Hamlin offered the following 

 joint resolution, which was adopted: 



Resolved, ^-c, That the existing vacancy in the Board of Eegents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than members of Congress, shall 

 be filled by the appointment of George Bancroft, of the city of Washing- 

 ton, in place of William T. Sherman, resigned. 



Mr. Hamlin. I will say only that there is an existing 

 vacancy, as stated in that resolution, occasioned by the 

 resignation of General Sherman, who has moved from this 

 city. The law requires that that regent shall be from the 

 city. Mr. Bancroft, the eminent historian, has come here 

 to reside. All three of the Board of Regents on the part 

 of this body think it is eminently fitting that he should be 

 designated by Congress to till that existing vacancy. 



December 14, 1874. — On motion of Mr. Sargent, the House 

 resolution of May 15, 1874, ordering 10,500 extras of the 

 report of the institution for 1873, was taken up and adopted. 



February 27, 1875. — Mr. Anthony, from the Committee 



on Printing, reported back the following resolution, which 



was concurred in : 



Resolved, {by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring,) That 

 10,500 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for the year 

 1874, be printed ; 2,000 of which shall be for the use of the House of Kep- 

 resentatives, 1,000 for the use of the Senate, -and 7,500 for the use of the 

 institution : Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report 

 shall not exceed 450, and that there shall be no illustrations, except those 

 furnished by the Smithsonian Institution. 



3Iarch 2, 1875. — The Vice President laid before the 

 Senate a bill extending the privilege of the library of Con- 

 gress to the Itegents of the Smithsonian Institution ; which 

 was read, and passed. 



The following is the bill : 



Be it enacted, ^c, That the Joint Committee of both Houses of Congress 

 on the Library, be authorized to extend the use of the books in the library 

 of Congress to the Kegents of the Smithsonian Institution, resident in 

 Washington, on the same conditions and restrictions as members of Con- 

 gress are allowed to use the library. 



House of Kepre^entatives, December 18, 1873. 

 The Speaker appointed Mr. E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, 

 Mr. S. S. Cox, of New York, and Mr. G. W. Ilazelton, of 

 Wisconsin, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



