REPORTS OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE. 697 



$1,050, with Mr. John Douglass, of "Washington, for enclosing the grounds of the 

 Institution with a hedge, and for planting trees and shrubbery. The architect 

 having marked out the paths and roads, and indicated the positions of the trees and 

 shrubs, these, comprising about 160 species, principally American, have already, for 

 the greater part, been planted, as well as the surrounding hedges, which are to 

 consist of pyrocanthus, Osage orange, Cherokee rose, and hawthorn, respectively, on 

 the four sides of the lot. Investigations and inquiries that have been made on this 

 subject, satisfy the committee that this climate in favorable to the growth and 

 maintenance of hedges, and that for a moderate expense a permanent and beautiful 

 enclosure will be secured. Tbe architect has been requested to prepare drawings and 

 estimates of the gateways necessary to connect the building with the adjacent streets. 



Proposals have been obtained tor putting up furnaces in the east wing ; also, for 

 sodding a portion of the ground immediately around the building, and for making 

 permanent roads and paths from the streets to the building and through the grounds^; 

 but it is not contemplated to engage in these last-mentioned works at present. 



In relation to the work entitled " Hints of Public Architecture," prepared by the 

 late Chairman of the Building Committee, for publication by that committee under 

 resolution of the Board, it is to be stated that the manuscript has been submitted, 

 under vote of the committee, to the inspection of Judge J. K. Kane, of Philadelphia, 

 Governor Kemble, Esq., of New York, and President Everett, of Cambridge Uni- 

 versity. From all of whom letters communicating their opinions of the work have 

 been received, and are submitted with this report. 



Mr. Owen, in a late letter to one of the committee, states his intention to be in 

 New York by the 20th December, to superinted the printing ; the printer refusing 

 without his supervision and arrangement of the illustrations, &c, to put it to press, 

 and expresses his confident belief tbat it will issue by the 10th of February — certainly, 

 before the adjournment of Congress. 



The architect of the Institution, who has drawn many of the illustrations, and 

 superintends the engraving gratuitously, states that all the engravings are ready, or 

 nearly so, and that the illustrations will amount to upwards of 100, of which six will 

 be lithographs and the remainder wood-cuts by the best engravers in the country. 



The wood-cuts generally do great credit to the engravers ; a few of the principal 

 ones have been brought on by the architect, and are herewith laid before the board. 



The expenses of the engravings contracted for will be $2,000, of which $ 



has been paid up to 1st December, 1848, the remainder being due the engravers. 



The vestry of Grace Church, in the city of New York, have presented to the 

 committee a lithograph of that building, which will cost the vestry $100. The 

 draughtsman, Mr. Wade, Messrs. Bobbett & Edmonds, engravers, and Mr. Putnam, 

 the publisher, have presented a beautiful illustrated title page which was designed by 

 the architect of the building. 



As it may be satisfactory to the Board to learn as much as can now be communi- 

 cated in relation to such expenditures — not embraced in the contract with Mr. Cam- 

 eron — as have been, or will be, necessary upon the building and grounds ; and which 

 must fall within the building fund of $250,000 — the committee proceed to add the 

 following statement : 



Amount of Mr. Cameron's contract $205,250 



Kemainder applicable to other objects connected with the building or 



grounds than those provided for in said contract 44,750 



$250,000 



Amount applicable as above 44,750 



Portions of the expenditures now referred to, are either fixed and definite 

 in their nature, or have been already settled by resolution ; they are as 

 follows : 



Architect's salary for five years 9,000 



Superintendent's salary for five years 6,000 



Incidental expenses allowed to architect 2,000 



Facing area wall with cut stone, extra work, allowed by resolu- 

 tion 480 



Adding battlements to cloisters of east wing, extra work, allowed 



by resolution 



Additional cases for apparatus, ordered by Secretary 200 



Contract for hedging, with Mr. Douglass 250 



Contract for planting trees and shrubs, with the same person 800 



