502 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



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 eral ma}' prescribe. 

 (Stat, X, 685.) 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By th# Vice- President. 

 February 21, 1854 Senate. 



Mr. J. A. PEARCE offered resolution: 



Resolved, That the vacancy in the Board cf Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 occasioned by the expiration of the term of the Hon. R. M. Charlton, be filled by 

 the President of the Senate. 



Agreed to. 



The President (Mr. JESSE D. BRIGHT) appointed Stephen A. Douglas 

 to fill the vacancy. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By the Speaker. 

 December 14, 1853 House. 



The Speaker (Mr. LINN BOYD) appointed James Meacham, of Ver- 

 mont, William H. English, of Indiana, and David Stuart, of Michi- 

 gan, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 



By Joint Resolution. 

 December 7, 1854 Senate. 



Mr. J. A. PEARCE, according to previous notice, asked and obtained 

 leave to introduce a joint resolution to fill the vacancies in the Board 

 of Regents of the class other than members of Congress, by the reap- 

 pointment of the late incumbents, Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts, and 

 Gideon Hawley, of New York. 



The joint resolution passed in Committee of the Whole. 

 December 22, 1854 House. 



Mr. JAMES MEACHAM. I wish to state that there is a bill upon the 

 Speaker's table providing for the reappointment of Regents of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. I will state that it is necessary to transact 

 some business which can not be done without the reappointment of 

 these Regents. I ask that the bill may be taken up and passed. It will 

 take but a minute, and I hope there will be no objection. 



Mr. W. R, W. COBB. I object. 



After the intervention of some other business 



Mr. MEACHAM. I now ask the House to take up the bill for the 

 reappointment of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and pass 

 it. It will occupy but a moment. 



Mr. T. B. FLORENCE. Oh, no; there is no quorum here. 



