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the 13th instant, relative to appropriations for the year commencing on the 19th of 

 March, 1848, made the following report : 



The committee, after consultation with the Secretary, recommend the passage of 

 the following resolution. 



That the appropriation for the year commencing on the 19th of March, 1848, for 

 ohjects other than those provided for out of the building fund be, for the present, as 

 follows : 



For the publication of Transactions, the sum of three thousand five hundred dol- 

 lars. 



For computation relating to occultations, two hundred and fifty dollars. 



For 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 

 completed 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 

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

 lars ; or, so much of each of the said sums as may, in the said year, be required. 



*a. For the purchase of books and incidents connected therewith, one thousand 

 dollars. 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



NINTH MEETING. 



December 15, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton, (Chairman,) Owen and Bache. 



The Chairman submitted to the committee a report, giving a 

 table of the expenditures of the Institution since its commence- 

 ment; and recommending a resolution in regard to the seal of the 

 Institution. 



It was examined, approved, and signed by the committee, and is 



as follows : 



Mr. Seaton, from the Executive Committee, made the following report: 

 The Executive Committee report the state of the funds of the Institution, on the 

 1st instant, as follows : 



The Board of Begents have drawn from the Treasury, of accruing inter- 

 est, to pay the current expenses of the Institution $40,660 81 



The disbursements from this fund have been as follows : 



For expenses of Board of Begents, and its committees $3,876 4T 



For materials and erection of specimen walls, and superintendence thereof. 393 63 



For books purchased 555 99 



For compensation to architects for designs, &c , 1,325 00 



For recording and copying 378 98 



For services of messenger 402 50 



For services of Assistant Secretary 200 00 



For postage 28 99 



For printing 347 63 



For examination of quarries, including expenses of geologist 370 76 



For perspective views of Institution 200 00 



For chemical examination of building materials 94 50 



For expenses connected with ceremonies, &c, on the occasion of laying 



the foundation stone of building 185 37 



For stationery 112 83 



For philosophical and chemical apparatus 1,571 47 



