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said building after excluding the architects’ fee and the contingent cost of the 
services and office expenses of the party of the first part,” and that, further, 
they should receive for such personal supervision of the construction as 
might be called for from time to time additional compensation within a total 
limit of 14 per cent on the cost of the construction as above described. 
An arrangement with the architects for compensation for their personal 
supervision under the second provision of the contract should no longer be 
delayed. They have already rendered more or less of such service in the 
progress of the work up to the present time. Hitherto payments have been 
made from time to time on account of the 34 per cent portion of their com- 
pensation amounting to $95,000, but they have received no compensation for 
personal supervision. 
The work that the architects have already done has been unusually expensive 
to them, because of the numerous restudies of design and arrangement of the 
building to meet the conditions of location, the limitation of its cost, and the re- 
quirements of its internal arrangement, the result of which is to be a building 
of far superior design and adaptation for its purposes, all within the limit of 
cost fixed by law, than was provided for in the original design upon which the 
law was based. The architects have spared no expense of time, labor, travel, 
and scale modeling of important parts of the building in order to arrive at the 
result mentioned. There yet remains much work for them to do in the details 
for the completion, especially the interior of the building, not only in study and 
design, but in personal supervision of the construction. 
Under the present conditions, therefore, I have the honor to recommend that 
authority be given me to employ the personal supervision of the architects, under 
the provision of the contract therefor, until the entire completion of the build- 
ing, at a rate of compensation equal to 14 per cent on the cost of the construc- 
tion of the building as defined in the contract. 
I inclose herewith for your convenience a copy of the contract and page xix 
of the Proceedings of the Board of Regents at its meeting on January 28, 1903, 
containing the original law for the construction of the building and the resolu- 
tion of the Regents providing for the direction of the work by the Regents 
through me. : 
Yours very respectfully, (Signed ) BERNARD R. GREEN, 
Superintendent of Construction. 
Dr. CHAS. D. WALCOTT, 
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
Articles of agreement entered into this eighteenth day of May, nineteen hun- 
dred and three (1903), between Bernard R. Green, superintendent of the 
building and grounds, Library of Congress, of the first part, acting under the 
direction of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, for and in behalf of 
the United States of America, and Joseph C. Hornblower and James R. 
Marshall, partners doing business as architects under the firm name of Horn- 
blower & Marshall, of Washington, in the District of Columbia; of the second 
part: 
This agreement witnesseth, that whereas by act of Congress approved Mareh 
53, 1903, the said Regents were authorized to commence the erection of a suitable 
building for the use of the National Museum on the north side of the Mall be- 
tween Ninth and Twelfth streets northwest, said building to cost not exceeding 
three million five hundred thousand dollars, the construction of said buliding to 
be in charge of the said Bernard R. Green, who shall make all contracts for the 
work; and 
