Messrs. Choate, Green and Morgan were appointed a Committee on By- 
Laws, with instructions to report a code of By-Laws at the next quar- 
terly meeting. November 14 
1871 
Mr. Choate was added to the Committee on Legislation. February 13 
Messrs. Choate, Roosevelt and Blodgett were appointed a special committee 
to confer with the Department of Public Parks, in regard to the Bill 
recently passed by the Legislature (viz., the erection of a building on 
Manhattan Square—joint committee of The Metropolitan Museum of 
Art and the American Museum of Natural History). April 15 
HO72) 
Member of Auditing Committee—served until November 8, 1875. 
November II 
Messrs. Choate and Sherman appointed a special committee with power to 
add one to their number to ask of the City authorities an appropriation 
for the Museum from the excise or educational funds. November IT 
1873 
Messrs. Potter, Sherman and Choate appointed a committee to procure. the 
striking out of the words “or other institutions of a like character” wher- 
ever they occur in section second, chapter 270, of the laws of 1870 and 
affect our Museum. February 10 
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