1632 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
February 10, 1893—House. 
Mr. J. W. Covert introduced bill i 10472) to incorporate the 
National Historical Society. 
Referred to Committee on Library. 
February 10, 1893—Senate. 
Mr. G. F. Hoar presented memorial of citizens of Massachusetts 
praying the passage of a law for the incorporation of the National 
Historical Society. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 
May 3, 1893. . 
Legislative, executive, and judicial act for 1894. 
Src. 3. That hereafter no building owned, or used for public pur- 
poses, by the Government of the United States, shall be draped in 
mourning and no part of the public fund shall be used for such 
purpose. 
Sec. 4. That hereafter the Executive Departments of the Govern- 
ment shall not be closed as a mark to the memory of any deceased 
ex-oflicial of the United States. - 
(Stat., XX VII, 715.) 
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 
APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 
By the Vice-President. 
March 20, 1893—Senate. 
The Vicr-PresrpENT (Mr. A. E. Stevenson). Pursuant to section 
5581 of the Revised Statutes, the Vice-President appoints the Senator 
from Delaware, George Gray, to bea Regent of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of his term of 
office. 
APPOINTMENT OF REGENTS 
By the Speaker. 
August 11, 1893—House. 
The SprakerR (Mr. Cuarzes F. Crisp). To fill the-vacancy in the 
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution occasioned by the 
resignation of H. C. Lodge, of Massachusetts, the Chair announces 
the appointment of R. R. Hitt, of Illinois. 
January 4, 1894—House. 
The SPEAKER (Mr. CuHarues F. Crisp). To fill the vacancies in the 
Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution occasioned by the 
