460 JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



should Mr. Powers see fit to make with our Institution a contract, upon the terms 

 proposed by the Board. 



Mr. Owen, Chairman of our Building Committee, informs me that he has written 

 to you on the subject, and especially in regard to the particular location proposed for 

 the statue. In case we obtain it, I have only to add that, the Executive Committees 

 holds itself prepared, at any time, to execute with Mr. Powers, or his authorized 

 agent, a contract, in accordance with the terms of the enclosed resolution. 

 I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



W. W. SEATON, 

 Chairman Executive Committee, Smithsonian Institution. 

 Miner K. Kelloug, Esq. 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



Note. — On the 13th December, Mr. Owen asked to be excused from serving as a 

 member of the Executive Committee ; stating to the Board, that the most important 

 duties of this committee would hereafter be, to select among various scientific objects 

 and researches, those to which appropriations should be made ; and that there were 

 gentlemen on the Board, not members of this committee, particularly a Regent from 

 Washington, better qualified than himself, to make such selection. He was not ex- 

 cused. 



On the 22d December, Mr. Owen renewed his application to be excused from ser- 

 vice on the Executive Committee ; stating to the Board that, if in accordance with 

 the tenor of a resolution heretofore passed by the Board, he should be re-elected Re- 

 gent, his duties as Chairman of the Building Committee would occupy much of his 

 time ; especially as there had been referred to him, by that committee, the prepara- 

 tion of the manuscript of the work on " Public Architecture," with the publication 

 of which they had been charged by the Board. 



Mr. Owen was excused ; and Mr. Pearce was elected to fill the vacancy thus cre- 

 ated. 



ELEVENTH MEETING. 



December 23, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton (Chairman) and Bache. 



The following resolution, passed yesterday by the Board, on the 

 subject of a communication of Mr. Stabler's, relative to his seal 

 and press, was laid, by the chairman, before the committee. 



Resolved, That Mr. Stabler's communication be referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee, with power to increase the compensation, if they deem it just, within the- 

 limits of the account rendered. 



"Whereupon, on motion of Mr. Seaton- 



Resolved, That Mr. Bache be requested to cause 

 jr's press and seal, and to give his opinion as to iti 



And, on motion, the committee adjourned. 



Resolved, That Mr. Bache be requested to cause Mr. Saxton to examine Mr. Sta- 

 bler's press and seal, and to give his opinion as to its value. 



TWELFTH MEETING. 



December 23, 1847. 



Present, Messrs. Seaton (Chairman) and Bache. 



Mr. Bache reported to the committee, that Mr. Saxton had ex- 

 amined the seal and press of Mr. Stabler; and, considering it a 

 work of the highest artistic skill and beauty of execution, was of 



