452 JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



1. To the publication of the first volume of the Smithsonian Contributions to Sci- 

 ence, two thousand dollars ; being one thousand dollars in addition to the thousand 

 dollars appropriated for this object, by resolution of the 26th of January last. 



2. To the publication of a thousand copies of a brief treatise, to be entitled 

 " Hints on Public Architecture," heretofore authorized to be published by the Build- 

 ing Committee, to be illustrated with designs of the Institution buildings, &c, two 

 thousand dollars ; being one thousand dollars in addition to the thousand dollars ap- 

 propriated for this object by resolution of the 5th of February last. 



3. For experiments heretofore authorized to be instituted to determine the econom- 

 ical value of building materials throughout the United States, five hundred dollars ; 

 being the same sum appropriated for that object by resolution of the 1st of March 

 last, but still unexpired. 



4. To purchase philosophical and chemical apparatus, one thousand dollars; being 

 a portion of the four thousand dollars appropriated for this object by resolution of 

 the 4th of December last. 



6. To part of salary of the Secretary, fifteen hundred dollars. 



6. To the building fund, seventeen thousand dollars. 



7. To incidental expenses and contingencies, including the expenses of the Board 

 and its committees, sixteen hundred and forty-six dollars ; or so much of that sum as 

 may be required for these purposes. 



Resolved, That during each of the four years next following the 19th of March, 

 1848, being the four years throughout which the unexpired term of the building con- 

 tract runs, the proportion of expenditure shall be as follows : that is to say, out of 

 the interest annually accruing to the Institution, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, 

 in each year, may be appropriated for the current expenses of the Institution, exclu- 

 sive of all expenditures whatever properly belonging to the building fund ; but 

 including the expense of the Board and its committees ; the salaries of officers, includ- 

 ing messenger ; the expense of all publications, researches, or other similar under- 

 takings ; the purchase of books and apparatus, and all incidentals whatever, not 

 connected with the expenditure on the building, or grounds. And the remainder of 

 the interest accruing to the Institution shall, during each of these four years, be 

 appropriated to the building fund. 



Resolved, That it is the deliberate opinion of this Board, that the entire cost of the 

 Institution building, including the complete fitting up and furnishing of the same ; 

 lighting and heating, ventilating and draining the same ; supplying the same with 

 water ; laying out in grass, and planting in trees and shrubs the lot ; fencing the 

 same, both with the present temporary fence, and the ultimate permanent one ; also, 

 all expenses for superintendence of erection, including the cost of architect's office 

 and other incidentals ; so as to cover all expenses whatever, that have been, and are 

 to be, incurred on the building and on the lot on which it stands, until the comple- 

 tion of the building, and of the preparation of the lot, up to the 19th of March, 

 1852, shall, under no circumstances, exceed the sum expended thereon up to the first 

 of this month, to wit :' the sum of $25,000 and $17,000, by a preceding reso- 

 lution appropriated to the building fund, together with the annual accruing interest 

 over $15,000 in each of the four years next following the 19th of March next, as in a 

 former resolution provided, and the further sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to 

 be raised by sale of that amount of the Treasury notes, now the property of the In- 

 stitution, to be sold at not less than their par value, which said sum of seventeen 

 thousand dollars, together with said annual interest over and above fifteen thousand 

 dollars, and said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, now invested in Treasury 

 notes, is hereby declared to be the building fund of the Institution. And the Build- 

 ing Committee are hereby expressly instructed and required so to arrange their ex- 

 penditures on the building and lot, including all items heretofore enumerated, that 

 these expenditures shall not exceed the amount of the said building fund : it being 

 understood that the said Building Committee have discretionary power in regard to 

 such modifications and alterations as may suggest themselves, in the progress of the 

 building, within the limits of the said building fund, but no other. And if, in order 

 to keep within the limits of expenditure by this resolution prescribed, it shall be 

 necessary to modify the plan as to reduce the cost of some portion of the building, 

 the Building Committee are hereby authorized and empowered so to do. 



Resolved, That the Building Committee be, and they are hereby, instructed, so to 

 arrange the expenditures from the said building fund, that the amount paid out of it, 

 (exclusive of any balance that may remain, on the 19th of March next, unexpended, 

 of the sum of seventeen thousand dollars hereinbefore appropriated,) shall not, at the 



