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JOURNAL OF THE 



Whereupon, it was 

 Resolved, That William W. Seaton, Robert Dale Owen* 

 and Joseph G. Totten be, and they are hereby, declared duly 

 elected Executive Committee. 



It was then 



Resolved, That William W. Seaton be, and he is hereby, 

 appointed Chairman of said Executive Committee. 

 It was further 



Resolved, That the Chairman of the Executive Committee be 

 the disbursing officer, for the payment of the expenses of the Re- 

 gents, and other contingent and incidental expenses of the sessions 

 of the Board, and be authorized to receive from the proper officer 

 of the Treasury Department whatever sum may be certified by 

 the Chancellor and Secretary to be necessary for that purpose. 



It was 



Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to employ a Record- 

 ing Clerk, as an assistant in the discharge of his duties, whose 

 compensation shall be determined by the Executive Committee. 



[In compliance with the seventh section of the act of Congress 

 establishing the Smithsonian Institution, and with the foregoing 

 resolution, the Secretary appointed Benjamin B. French, Esq., 

 Assistant Secretary and Recording Clerk of the Institution.] 

 It was 



Resolved, That the Secretary be authorized to procure a book, 

 in which the proceedings of the Board shall be recorded, and a 

 description of the site selected by the Board, set out by metes and 

 bounds, shall be made and signed by the Regents present, and 

 shall have also appended the assent of the President, the Secre- 

 tary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, 

 the Secretary of the Navy, and the Commissioner of the Patent 

 Office to the same. And the Secretary shall also record in the 

 same the will of James Smithson ; the original act of Congress ac- 

 cepting the trust ; the law establishing the existing Institution ; the 

 resolution of Congress appointing Regents of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution ; also, the certificates of the Secretary of the Senate and I 



