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The amendment to the amendment was not agreed to. 



The question recurring on the amendment of Mr. Maynard, it was 

 not agreed to. 



The joint resolution was then passed. 

 January 12, 1874 — Senate. 



Mr. T. O. Howe, from the Committee on the Library, to whom 

 was referred the Senate resokition of January 5, 1874, asked to be 

 discharged from its further consideration, and that it be indefinitely 

 postponed. Agreed to. 



The same committee, to whom was referred the joint resolution 

 from the House filling existing vacancies in the Board of Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, reported it back without amendment, 

 and with the recommendation that it pass; which was ordered to lie 

 over. 

 January 13. 1874 — Senate. 



Mr. J. W. Stevenson moved to take up the joint resolution from the 

 House providing for the appointment and reappointment of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, which on January 12 was ordered to 

 lie over, and it was read a third time and passed. 

 January 19, 1874. 



ResoVned., etc. , That the existing vacancies in the Board of Regents 

 of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than members of Con- 

 gress, shall be filled by the appointment of Asa Gray, of Massachu- 

 setts, in place of Louis Agassiz, deceased; J. D. Dana, of Connecticut, 

 in place of Theodore D. Woolsey ; and Henry Coppee, of Pennsylvania, 

 in place of W. B. Astor; and John Maclean, and Peter Parker, whose 

 terms have expired, shall be reappointed. 



(Stat., XVIII, Part 3, 285.) 

 December 10, 1874 — Senate. 



Mr. H. Hamlin offered joint resolution: 



That the existing vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 of the class other than members of Congress, shall be filled by the appointment uf 

 George Bancroft, of the city of Washington, in place of William T. Sherman, resigned. 



Mr. Hamlin. I will say only that there is an existing vacancy, as 

 stated in that resolution, occasioned by the resignation of General 

 Sherman, who has moved from this city. The law requires that that 

 Regent shall be from the city. Mr. Bancroft, the eminent historian, 

 has come here to reside. All three of the Board of Regents on the 

 part of this body think it is eminently fitting that he should be desig- 

 nated by Congress to fill that existing vacancy. 



Adopted. 

 December 11, 1874 — House. 



On motion by Mr. Samuel Hooper, the joint resolution appointing 

 George Bancroft a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, in place of 

 William T. Sherman, resigned, was taken up and passed. 



