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close of any one year of the last four years of the building contract, exceed an average 

 annual expenditure, throughout the said years, of fifty-two thousand dollars, to wit : 

 at the end of one year an expenditure of fifty-two thousand dollars ; at the end of 

 two years, an expenditure of a hundred and four thousand dollars ; and so on. 



Resolved, That all appropriations heretofore made by the Board, for the erection of 

 the Institution, campus, including appropriations made on the 28th of January last, 

 for fitting up and furnishing the building, and for lighting and heating the same ; 

 also, for laying out, and planting and fencing the campus, be, and the same are 

 hereby, rescinded ; and the sole appropriations for these objects are hereby declared 

 to be those included in the preceding resolutions. 



Resolved, That, for the present, the resolution of the Board, passed on the 4th De- 

 cember last, and authorizing an appropriation of twenty thousand dollars for the 

 purchase of books, and which said appropriation is to commence from the 1st of Jan- 

 ary next, shall be strictly construed to authorize only the purchase of such valuable 

 books of reference, as the Secretary, or the Building or Executive Committees, may 

 consider useful for present purposes, or otherwise likely to be immediately demanded 

 in the prosecution of the plan of the Institution : Pr-ovided, however, that nothing in 

 this, nor in the preceding series of resolutions contained, shall be construed to rescind, 

 nor in any way impair the force of, certain resolutions passed by the Board on the 

 26th and 28th of January last, including the following: 



" Resolved, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the two principal modes of 

 executing the act and trust pointed out in the resolutions herewith submitted, the 

 permanent appropriations out of the accruing interest shall, so soon as the buildings 

 are completed, be annually as follows : that is to say — 



" First, for the formation of a library composed of valuable works pertaining to all 

 departments of useful knowledge, and for the procuring, arranging, and preserving 

 of the various collections of the Institution, as well of natural history, and objects 

 of foreign and curious research, and of elegant art as others, including those of the 

 first complete arrangement of all such collections and objects as now belong to the 

 United States in the Museum of the Institution, when completed, together with one- 

 half of the salary of the Secretary, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. 



" Secondly, for the preparation and publication of transactions, reports, and all other 

 publications of the Institution, including appropriations for original researches, and 



firemiums for original papers ; for the delivery of all lectures and payment of all 

 ecturers, and for all general expenses connected with said lectures and publications, 

 together with one-half of the salary of the Secretary, the remainder accruing inter- 

 est ; it being understood that all general and incidental expenses, not specially con- 

 nected with either of the above two great divisions of the plan of the Institution 

 shall be equally divided between them." 



And including also the following : 



" Resolved, That it is the opinion and intention of the Board that, in the appropri- 

 ation for the objects of the Institution of any surplus of accrued interest which may 

 remain after the completion of the buildings of the Institution, an equal division 

 shall be made between the two great branches ; that is to say, one-half shall be ap- 

 propriated to the library and museum fund, and the other half to the fund for origi- 

 nal research, publications, and lectures ; and that, in regard to all other funds here- 

 after to accrue to the Institution the same division be made : And provided, also, 

 that the present series of resolutions shall not be construed to rescind or impair 

 the force of a certain other resolution of the 26th of January last, passed by the 

 Board, for the election of an Assistant Secretary to act as Librarian, and whose sal- 

 ary it was therein declared should commence "whenever the building is read}' for 

 the reception of the library:" And provided, further, that nothing in the present res- 

 olutions contained shall be construed to take from the Executive Committee the 

 power, heretofore, to wit : by resolution of the 26th January, granted to them to 

 make to the Assistant Secretary elect, such compensation as they may deem reason- 

 able for services he may render from time to time, in making catalogues or perform- 

 ing other similar duties for the Institution." 



Resolved, That there shall, hereafter, be one regular annual meeting of the Board 

 of Kegents, and no more, unless specially called according to the provisions of the 

 act organizing the Institution ; and that said annual meeting be held on the first 

 "Wednesday in January of each year : Provided, That the regular annual meeting for 

 the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight shall be held on the second Wednesday in 

 December of that year. 



