SJ: BOARD OF REGENTS. 



June 5, 1852. 

 The Board of Regents was notified to meet this day at 11 o'clock. 

 A quorum not being present, the Board adjourned to August 7, 

 1852. 



August 7, 1852. 



The Board of Regents met this evening at 7h o'clock. 



Present, Messrs. Colcock, Fitch, Pearce, and Totten. 



Mr. Maury, elected Mayor of Washington, and therefore ex officio 

 Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, appeared and took his scat. 



In the absence of the Chancellor, Mr. Pearce took the chair. 



Mr. Fitch, from the Building Committee, presented to the Board 

 a letter from James Renwick, Jr., architect, informing the commit- 

 tee that the building, so far as it was embraced in the contract of 

 Mr. Cameron, was completed, and recommending that six thousand 

 dollars be advanced to the contractor from the fifteen per cent, kept 

 back, in advance of Mr. Renwick's final certificate ; also stating 

 that it would take several days for him to make up his final award. 



Mr. Fitch stated to the Board that there was now a suit pending 

 between Mr. Cameron and his sub-contractor ; and that though the 

 institution had no interest in this suit, the Regents had been in- 

 formed that they were a party to the same. The Building Com- 

 mittee, therefore, thought it advisable to refer this subject to the 

 Board. 



In order to obtain further information on this point, it was, on 

 motion, resolved, to postpone the consideration until the next meet- 

 ing. 



Mr. Fitch, from the Building Committee, also presented an 

 account from Mr. Renwick, for services from March 1 to June 1, 

 1852 ; which the committee did not feel themselves authorized to 

 pay without an order from the Board. 



Mr. Fitch also presented, from the same committee, a communi- 

 cation from Mr. Renwick to the Board, relative to his compensa- 

 tion, including another account for services to August 1, 1852. 



Mr. Fitch presented a resolution, relative to the payment of the 

 accounts of Mr. Renwick, the consideration of which was post- 

 poned to the next meeting. 



The Board then adjourned to Monday evening, August 9, at 7% 

 o'clock. 



August 9, 1852. 

 The Board of Regents met this evening at 7J o'clock. 

 Present, Messrs. Colcock, Mason, Maury, Pearce, and Totten, of 



