JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 115 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



A communication from J. W. Simonton, "Washington editor of 

 the New York Daily Times, and S. Thayer, of the New York Evening 

 Post, asking permission to attend the meetings of the Board to 

 report its proceedings, was read. 



Mr. Meacham moved that the request be granted ; which was lost. 



The order of the day being the consideration of the report and 

 resolutions of the Select Committee on the distribution of the in- 

 come, the first resolution was read, namely : 



Resolved, That the seventh resolution passed hy the Board of Regents on the 26th 

 of January, 1847, requiring an equal division of the income between the active opera- 

 tions and the niuscuni and library when the buildings are completed, be, and is here- 

 by, repealed. 



Eemarks were made by Messrs. Choate, Pearce, Douglas, and 

 Berrien. 



On motion of Mr. Mason the yeas and nays were ordered. 



The question was then taken on the adoption of the first resolu- 

 tion as follows : 



YEAS — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, Hawley, Mason, 

 Pearce, Rush, and Totten — 8. 



NAYS — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, English, Meacham, Stuart, and Towers — 6. 



The second resolution was then read : 



Resolved, That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be apportioned specifically 

 among the different objects and operations of the institution in such manner as may, 

 in the judgment of the Regents, be necessary and proper for each, according to its 

 intrinsic importance, and a compliance in good faith with the law. 



The question being taken on this resolution it was adopted. 



YEAS — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, Hawley, Mason, 

 Pearce, Rush, Totten, Towers — 9. 

 NAYS — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, English, Meacham, and Stuart — 5. 



Mr. Meacham then offered the following resolution, which was 

 the first reported by him in his minority report, namely : 



Resolved, That a compliance in good faith with the letter and spirit of the charter 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, requires that a large proportion of the income of the 

 institution should be appropriated " for the gradual formation of a library composed 

 of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge." 



The question being taken on this resolution it was lost. 



YEAS — Messrs. Choate, Douglas, Meacham, and Stuart — 4. 



NAYS — The Chancellor, Roger B. Taney, Messrs. Bache, Berrien, English, Haw- 

 ley, Mason, Rush, Pearce, and Totten — 9. 



Mr. Mcacham's second resolution was then read, namely : 



Resolved, That the expenditures for the library shall bo made under the direction 

 of a " library committee " of three members, to bo annually elected by the Board of 

 Regents from members not upon the Executive Committee, or upon other committees 

 which may be appointed to superintend the affairs of other departments or objects of 

 the institution. 



The question being taken on this resolution it was lost. 



