XXIt PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. 
Congress, limiting the fees of architects generally, shall of itself be construed ‘to 
reduce the total compensation of the party of the second part to a sum less than 
five per centum on such cost of construction, it being herein understood that the 
fees of the architect as herein provided for shall be limited to three and one-half 
per cent on such cost of construction, together with such additional compensation 
as may be fixed and agreed to be paid from time to time by the party of the first 
part acting as aforesaid, which additional compensation shall not, in any event, 
exceed a sum equal to one and one-half per cent on such total cost of construction. 
And it is herein further provided that no payment shall become due before 
July first, nineteen hundred and three (1905). 
And it is further covenanted and agreed by and between the parties hereto 
that the payments herein stipulated to be made by the party of the first part shall 
be in full compensation and payment of all charges for the full services of the 
party of the second part and for all designs, plans, details, and specifications 
made, ordered, or prepared for the National Museum by or under the direction 
of the said party of the second part. 
And it is further covenanted and agreed by and between the parties hereto 
that should the said party of the second part through any unavoidable cause 
become unable to complete the foregoing contract, or if the conduct of the said 
party of the second part is such that the interests of the United States are 
thereby likely to be placed in jeopardy, or if the said party of the second part 
violates any of the conditions or stipulations of this contract, the said party of 
the first part shall have the right to revoke this contract or any part thereof, 
and to cause the same to be otherwise completed: Provided, In such case, how- 
ever, that the party of the second part shall receive equitable compensation for 
all services already properly performed under this contract up to the date of its 
revocation, such compensation to be fixed by the said party of the first part. 
No Member or Delegate to Congress, or other person whose name is not at 
this time disclosed, shall be admitted to any share in this contract or to any 
benefit to arise therefrom; and it is further covenanted and agreed that this 
contract shall not be assigned. 
In witness whereof the parties hereto have hereunto placed their hands and 
seals the day and date hereinbefore written. 
BERNARD R. GREEN, 
Superintendent of the Building and Grounds, Library of Congress. 
HORNBLOWER & MARSHALL. 
Witnesses: 
JOHN Q. SHEEHY. 
Gro. N. FRENCH. 
(Executed in triplicate. ) 
The Chancellor also read the following clause from the sundry 
civil act approved March 3, 1903, providing for the new building for 
the National Museum: 
BUILDING FoR NATIONAL MusrumM: To enable the Regents of the Smithsonian 
._ Institution to commence the erection of a suitable fireproof building with gran- 
ite fronts, for the use of the National Museum, to be erected on the north side 
of the Mall, between Ninth and Twelfth streets northwest, substantially in ae- 
cordance with the Plan A, prepared and submitted to Congress by the Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution under the provisions of the act approved 
June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and fifty thou- 
sand dollars. Said building, complete, including heating and ventilating ap- 
paratus and elevators, shall cost not to exceed three million five hundred thou- 
