336 PROCEEDINGS OF [1843. 



Resolved, That Iho several propositions contained in the informal report present- 

 ed to the Institute by the committee appointed to devise and execute such measures 

 as may bu deemed expedient to obtain contributions and other aid to the Institute, 

 be approved and adopted by tlie Institute. 



Resolved, Tliat tiie eloquent remarks of the Hon. Mr. Preston, Senator froui 

 South Carolina, addressed to the Institute on the 13th of June last, be published 

 and distributed in the manner and for the purposes proposed by the committee. 



Resolved, That the circulars proposed to be addressed to prominent individuals 

 by the committee, in order to obtain their aid in receiving and transmitting contri- 

 butions, be sanctioned by the official signatures of the President and Secretary of 

 the Institute. 



Resolved, That the committee be empowered to issue invitations in the name of 

 tlio Institute, and to make all necessary arrangements for the meeting of the learn- 

 ed men of our country, and of all persons who take an interest in the promotion 

 of science, at the seat of Government, and at such a period of the session of Con. 

 grtss as the committee may deem expedient for the purposes suggested by them in 

 ihcir report. 



Resolved, That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the recommendation of 

 tho committee on this subject, the system proposed in the provisional report of the 

 committee on exchanges be adopted. 



True extracts from the minutes : 



GARRETT R. BARRY, Recording Secretary. 



Circular No. 1, dated October 15, 1842, and signed by J. C. Spencer, Chairman, 

 Wm. C. Preston, Lewis F. Linn, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Abbott Lawrence, Com. 

 mittee ; and circular No. 2, dated February 24, 1843, and signed by J. C. Spencer, 

 Chairman, were read. 



The reading of the circulars having been concluded, Mr. Upshur proposed tho 

 following resolutions: 



Resolved, That the committee of five members, appointed in June, 1842, " to 

 devise and execute such measures as may be most effectual to invite the liberality 

 and public spirit of our countrymen in aid of the National Institute ; and to obtain 

 contributions in money, property, and such articles as are adapted to its purposes," 

 be requested : 



1st. To appoint a member to supply the place of the late Hon. Dr. Linn, Senator 

 from Missouri, deceased. 



2d. To add three more members to the committee. 



3d. To prepare a third circular, in which an appeal shall be made to the liberal- 

 ity of the public. 



4th. To announce that the Hon. Mr. Adams has consented to deliver, at some 

 future time, of which notice will be given, the annual discourse before the Insti- 

 tute ; and that the Hon. Mr. Walker has consented to deliver the address at tho 

 opening of the meeting called by the circular of the committee on the first Mon- 

 day of April, 1844. 



5th. To make definitive arrangements for the details of the contemplated meet- 

 ing of April next, and to see that they be fully carried into efiect. 



And they were unanimously agreed to. 



The chairman appointed the following persons a committee to prepare the memo- 

 rial to Congress: Mr. Richard S. Coxe, Mr. Peter Force, Col. J.J. Abert, Wr. A. 

 O. Dayton, Mr. Francis Markoe, Jr. 



The Hon. Mr. Woodbury made tho following remarks : 



Mr. Woodbury observed that he should accept the honor conferred on him of 

 presenting the memorial to tho Senate for relief to the Institute. He should do 

 this, and support the measure, if necessary, for one or two reasons, which might 

 have an influence with some in its favor, who, like hirn, would otherwise entertain 

 doubts as to its being constitutional. The committee just appointed to draft the 

 memorial might also deem it expedient, among other things, to state in it, and thus 

 bring early to tho attention of Congress, such views as were calculated to obviate 

 any constitutional objection to relief; and hence he craved their indulgence, as well 

 as that of tho other gentlemen present, for detaining them a single moment with 

 stating those reasons. Tho first one which had operated on him was, that tho In- 

 Htitutu was situated in the District of Columbia, over which (.'ongrcss possessed 

 the power of exclusive legislation ; a power much less limited in character lliuii 



