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RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. 
Mr. Henderson, chairman of the executive committee, offered the 
following resolution, which was adopted: 
Resolved, That the income of the Institution for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1910, be appropriated for the service of the Institution, to be expended by the secre- 
tary, with the advice of the executive committee, with full discretion on the part 
of the secretary as to items. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 
Mr. Henderson submitted the report of the executive committee — 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, which, on motion, was 
adopted. 
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE. 
Mr. Henderson, chairman of the permanent committee, presented 
the following report: 
Hodgkins fund.—In addition to the sum of $100,000 bequeathed 
to the Institution by Thomas G. Hodgkins upon condition that the 
income be devoted to the increase and diffusion of knowledge regard- 
ing the nature and properties of atmospheric air, which sum is on 
deposit in the Treasury of the United States, there is now deposited 
in the Treasury to the credit of the Smithsonian fund the sum of 
$157,918.69 received from the Hodgkins estate, the income from 
which is, in accordance with the direction of the testator, devoted 
to the general purposes of the Institution. Besides the regular 
income of 6 per cent per annum on these portions of the fund, 
the Institution has received semiannually a dividend of 4 per cent 
on the West Shore Railroad bonds, of the par value of $42,000, 
accruing to the Institution from the Hodgkins estate. A number 
of grants have been authorized from the Hodgkins fund during the 
year for the promotion of researches relating to subjects embraced 
within the expressed purposes of the foundation, and a prize of 
$1,500 has been offered, in connection with the recent International 
Congress on Tuberculosis, for the best treatise ‘On the relation 
of atmospheric air to tuberculosis.” 
Andrews estate—The decision of the supreme court of New York, 
appellate division, in April, 1907, affirming the decree below, which 
gave the residue of the estate of Mr. Wallace C. Andrews to the 
Andrews Institute for Girls, at Willoughby, Ohio, was, upon appeal 
by the Smithsonian Institution, affirmed on February 25, 1908, by 
the New York court of appeals. On motion of Mr. Frank W. 
Hackett and Mr. Edmund Wetmore, counsel for the Smithsonian 
Institution, a writ of error has been allowed by Mr. Justice Peckham, 
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