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seventy-six dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated ; 

 and that the Chairman of the Executive Committee communicate to Mr. Stabler a 

 copy of this resolution. 



Whereupon, Mr. Stabler expressed his dissatisfaction, and his 

 unwillingness to receive the sura of $276 in full, for his seal, press 

 and case ; representing that the Board had misconceived the letter 

 of Mr. Peale, relative to the value of the work ; the sum of $250, 

 in that letter mentioned, being meant by Mr. Peale to apply to the 

 dies only, and not to the press or stand. 



Thereupon, Mr. Stabler was advised to take the seal and press to 

 the Vice-President's room, in the Capitol, where the Board would 

 be able to inspect it, at their meeting of this evening ; and was in- 

 formed that the matter would be again referred to the Board for 

 their action, and that the explanation Mr. Stabler had just made to 

 the committee, would be, by the committee, repeated to the Board. 



The chairman called the attention of the committee to a pream- 

 ble and resolution, passed by the Board of Regents, as follows, to 

 wit : 



"Whereas, it has been intimated to this Board that, the American Sculptor, Hiram 

 Powers, desires to make some arrangement, by which his marble statue of the Greek 

 Slave, may obtain, at the seat of Government of his native country, a suitable tri- 

 bune in a fire-proof building, where it shall forever remain open, ultimately without 

 charge, to his countrymen, and others visiting the metropolis ; therefore — 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee be, and they are hereby, authorized to 

 make with the said Hiram Powers, or his duly authorized agent, a contract, in regard 

 to the procurement and safe keeping of the said statue, as follows, to wit : That the 

 Smithsonian Institution will receive, and place in a fire-proof portion of the build- 

 ing, the said statue, in three years from this date ; that it is to say, on the 15th De- 

 cember, 1850, or such earlier date as the said statue shall be received, the Smithsonian 

 Institution binds and obliges itself, to keep the said statue on exhibition, and charging 

 for a single ticket twenty-five cents ; and for a season ticket, to be valid for one year, 

 fifty cents ; and that they will pay over, from time to time, unto the said Hiram 

 Powers, the gross amount of the receipts of said exhibition, without any deduction 

 therefrom, for rent, attendance, or any other incidental expense whatever ; said gross 

 receipts to be in full payment of the said statue, which shall thereafter remain the 

 property of the Smithsonian Institution ; and the said Institution binds and obliges 

 itself, at the expiration of the said three years of exhibition of the said statue, and for- 

 ever after, safely to keep the said statue, and to admit visitors to the same, at reason- 

 able times, as they are admitted to the other collections of the Institution, free of all 

 charge whatsoever. 



Resolved, That the Chairman of the Executive Committee transmit to Miner K. 

 Kellogg, Esq., in whose charge the said statue now is, a copy of the foregoing pre- 

 amble and resolution. 



In connection with the above resolutions, the chairman submit- 

 ted the following copy of a letter which he had, to-day, addressed 

 to Mr. Kellogg : 



Washington, December 22, 1847. 



Sir: I am instructed by the Board of Kegents of the Smithsonian Institution, to 

 enclose to you a copy of a preamble and resolution, relative to the statue of our coun- 

 tryman, Mr. Powers, now in your possession. 



I have not had an opportunity of seeing the " Greek Slave," but from the current 

 testimony of the press and of men of taste, who have inspected it, I have formed so 

 high an opinion of the merits of the work, that it will afford me sincere gratification 



