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distribution, I think they should add to and not diminish 

 the regular supply to the institution. I move to amend the 

 amendment so that the number proposed for the House and 

 Senate shall be in addition to the number proposed by the 

 resolution. 



The amendment to the amendment was agreed to ; and 

 the amendment, as amended, was agreed to. 



The resolution, as amended, was concurred in. 



Mr. DONNAN moved to reconsider the vote by which the 

 resolution was concurred in ; and also moved that the mo- 

 tion to reconsider be laid on the table. 



The latter motion was agreed to. 



December 11, 1874. On motion by Mr. HOOPER, the joint 

 resolution appointing George Bancroft a Regent of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, in place of William T. Sherman, 

 resigned, was taken up, and passed. 



January 26, 1875. Annual report, for the year 1874, laid 

 before the House of Representatives, and ordered to be 

 printed. 



February 8, 1875. Mr. HOAR moved to have additional 

 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution printed. 



February 24, 1875. Mr. DONNAN, from the Committee on 

 Printing, reported the following resolution ; which was 

 read, and agreed to : 



Resolved, (by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring,} That 

 10,500 copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for the year 

 1874, be printed ; 2,000 copies of which shall be for the use of the House of 

 Representatives, 1,000 for the use of the Senate, and 7,500 for the use of the 

 institution : Provided, That the aggregate number of pages of said report 

 shall not exceed 450, and that there shall be no illustrations, except those 

 furnished by the Smithsonian Institution. 



March 2, 1875. Mr. HOAR introduced a bill extending 

 the privileges of the library of Congress to the Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution ; which was passed. 



