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SATURDAY, January 30, 184T. 



Mr. Evans offered the following resolution : 



Resolved^ That it is expedient that an assistant lo the Secretary be ap- 

 pointed, who shall also be the clerk of the building and Executive 

 committees, who shall take charge of the roftms which may be obtained 

 for the use of the institution ; who shall assist the Secretary in keeping: the 

 records of the regents, keep accounts and papers of the Secretary and of the 

 building committee ; who shall be competent to prepare all public advertise- 

 ments, draw all contracts, keep all accounts of disbursements, and pre- 

 pare all accounts for settlement at the treasury, and discharge such duties 

 generally connected with the institution as may be required of him by 

 the Secretary or the building committee ;'and who shall receive such com- 

 pensation as shall hereafter be fixed upon by the board. 



The resolution being read, the further consideration thereof was post- 

 poned for the present. 



The board adjourned to Friday next, at 10 o'clock. 



FRIDAY, February 5, 1S47. 



Mr. Bache offered, as an amendment of a previous one of Mr. Owen, 

 the following resolution, which was read and agreed to : 



Resolved, That the building committee, in conjunction with the Sec- 

 retary, be authorized to publish, in such form as they may deem most ap- 

 propriate, one thousand copies of a brief treatise, to be entitled " Hints on 

 Public Architecture," and to be illustrated with designs of the plan of 

 the buildings adopted for the Smithsonian Institution, and, at the option 

 of the committee, with any other desiijns that are the property of the insti- 

 tution, provided that the cost of the same shall not exceed one thousand 

 dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose. 



Mr. Owen offered the following resolution, which was read, considered, 

 and agreed to : 



Resolved, That the Secretary add to the report of the organization 

 committee, when printed, a copy of the will of the testator, of the act ac- 

 cepting the bequest, and of the act organizing the institution.. 

 On motion of Mr. Evans, 



The board proceeded to the consideration of the resolution offered by 

 him on the 30th of January last, to appoint an assistant tt) the Secretary ; 



When the said resolution was read and agreed to. 

 On motion of Mr. Evans, 



The board proceeded to the appointment of the " committee of three," 

 in accordance with the fifth section of the act organizing the institution. 



Messrs. J. G. Totten, Robert Dale Owen, and William W. Seaton, were 

 appointed the said committee. 



On motion of Mr. Hilliard, 



Ordered, That Mr. A. D. Bache be appointed temporarily in the place 

 of Mr. J. G. Totten on the Executive Committee, who is now in Mexico. 



Ordered, That Mr. Hough be appointed temporarily in the place of J. 

 G. Totten on the building committee. 

 On motion of Mr. Evans, 



Resolved, That in the absence of any member of any one of the com- 

 mittees, the remaining members thereof be authorized to appoint one 

 temporarily in his stead. 



