The Smithsonian Institution. ae 
good faith with the law.” A restriction which the 2 ate had 
imposed on themselves, ——s to experience, is here pro- 
osed to be removed. n the. exercise of their 2A they 
had adopted a fixed and! nvarying apportionment, they now pro- 
best seeweds at the time, and in compliance in good faith with 
the law 
The consideration of these resolutions was postponed until the 
next annual session of the Board, in January of the present year ; 
and it was ordered “ that said report, and such report of a minor- 
ity of the committee as may be made in the recess of the Board, 
be printed.” .'The committee’s report was so printed, for the use 
the Senate and the House of Representatives. Up to this time, 
an interval of two months having elapsed, no minority report had 
been seut in,+so far as we can learn, and none could therefore 
properly be embodied i in the Annual ‘Report, “ showing the pro- 
pee of the Board up to July 8, 1854.” A minority ‘report 
the Hon. J. Meacham, (Doc. No, 5 ,) without date, and consist- 
ing of an elaborate review and criticism of the report of the 
Special Committee, is however appended to the House edition of 
the Smithsonian Report,—whether properly or not we need not 
inquire.* In this document it is for the first time officially main- 
tained (though it had been anonymously argued in the newspa- 
rs some time before, and apparently broached in the sessions of 
the Board as early as the spring of that year): 1, That the 
“compromise resolutions” of Jan. 16, 1847, were unauthorized 
by the law ; and yet ought to be continued in | force : : and 2, That 
their repeal by the passage of the resolves of the Special Commit- 
t that any one could wisely object oe ae an official document as this is, or 
‘iti yds when laid before the Board 
of =e aun: Printin uestion being n neghegh this optim the 
tary, 0 "Printing ak oe ache to its being printed, with the sim- 
ple statement “ yg ie raters “that. it t does not form a part of the proceedings of 
the Board of Regents re 
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