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For the publication of Transactions, the sum of three thousand and live hundred 

 dollars ; 



For computations relative to occupations, two hundred and fifty dollars ; 



For the purchase of magnetic instruments, six hundred dollars ; 



For instruments and other expenses connected with meteorological observations, 

 one thousand dollars ; 



For arrangement of apparatus, &c., in such portion of the building as shall be com- 

 pleted next autumn, one hundred and fifty dollars ; 



For expenses of lectures, including lighting of lecture-room, five hundred dollars 



For publication of scientific reports, five hundred dollars ; 



For general expenses of the institution, including salary of officers, expenses of 

 the Board and its committees, clerk hire, postage, &c, seven thousand five hundred 

 dollars ; 



For the purchase of books, and incidentals connected therewith, one thousand dol- 

 lars ; 



Or so much of each of said sums as may in the said year be required. 



On motion of Mr. Hough, the report and resolution were adopted. 

 On motion of Mr. Owen, the following preamble and resolutions 

 were read, considered, and agreed to : 



Whereas it has been intimated to this Board, that the American sculptor, Hiram 

 Powers, desires to make some arrangements by which his marble statue of the Greek 

 Slave may obtain, at the seat of Government of his native country, a suitable tribune, 

 in a fire-proof building, where it shall forever remain open^ultimately without 

 charge — to his countrymen and others visiting the metropolis ; therefore — 



I. Resolved, That the Executive Committee be, and they are hereby, authorized to 

 make, with the said Hiram Powers or his duly authorized agent, a contract in regard 

 to the procurement and sale keeping of the said statue, as follows, to wit : That the 

 Smithsonian Institution will receive and place in a fire-proof portion of their build- 

 ing, the said statue, in three years from this date, that is to say, on the 15th of De- 

 cember, 1850, or sooner, if a suitable room can be prepared, and the said Hiram 

 Powers should desire it ; that for three years from and after the said 15th of Decem- 

 ber, 1850, or such earlier date as the said statue shall be received, the Smithsonian 

 Institution binds and obliges itself to keep the said statue on exhibition, charging 

 for a single ticket twenty-five cents, and for a season ticket, to be valid for one year, 

 fifty cents ; and that they will pay over, from time to time, unto the said Hiram 

 Powers, the gross amount of the receipts of said exhibition, without any deduction 

 therefrom for rent, attendance, or any other expense, whatever ; said gross receipts to 

 be in full payment of said statue which shall thereafter remain the property of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and the said institution binds and obliges itself at the expi- 

 ration of the said three years of exhibition of the said statue, and forever after, safely 

 to keep the said statue, and to admit visitors to the same at reasonable times as they 

 are admitted to the other collections of the institution, free of all charges whatso- 

 ever. 



II. Resolved, That the chairman of the Executive Committee transmit to Miner 

 K. Kellogg, Esq., in whose charge the statue now is, a copy of the foregoing pream- 

 ble and resolutions. 



Mr. Seaton laid before the Board a catalogue of the library of 

 the late Right Hon. Henry S. Fox, offered by his executor, for sale 

 to the Smithsonian Institution ; also a letter from Richard Smith, 

 Esq., agent for the trustees of the Pennsylvania Bank of the 

 United States, accompanied by a list of two hundred and eight 

 portraits of revolutionary worthies and other distinguished men, 

 which the agent offers to the Board of Regents for sale on such 

 terms as may be agreed on. 



On motion, the said catalogue of books and list of portraits were 

 laid on the table, and the Secretary was requested to inform the 

 gentleman offering the books that it is not in the contemplation of 



