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(5) The executive business of the Division including general matters for 
the Division as a whole and those covering the work of the two sections shall 
be handled by a Secretary at a salary of $3000 per year, the Secretary to be 
resident in Washington. In view of this organization it seems desirable that 
the sum of $3000 being the difference between the salary of the Secretary and 
the normal salary of the head of a division be made available for expenses of the 
Chairman of the Division and the Chairmen of the two Sections, in connection 
with journeys to Washington with such residence at headquarters as may be 
necessary in conducting the work of the Division. (Adopted.) 
The meeting adjourned at 1.05 p.m. 
Paul Brockett, Assistant Secretary, 
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE INTERIM COMMITTEE 
At the National Research Council Building, June 3, 1919, at 9.30 a.m. 
Present; Messrs. Angell, Bancroft, Clevenger, Leuschner, Mathews, Mer- 
riam, Washburn, Yerkes and, by invitation, H. E. Howe. 
Mr. Merriam in the chair. 
The Secretary reported that in view of the fact that the Government dis- 
bursing office in London, through which disbursements were made to the 
Foreign Research Information Service at London and Paris, had probably 
been closed on June l,it would be necessary to advance a sufficient sum of 
money from the funds appropriated to the Executive Board for the continuance 
of the offices of the Scientific Attaches in London and Paris during the month 
of June and for the traveling expenses incident to the return to the United 
States of the staffs of these offices. 
Moved: That, owing to the closing of the disbursing office in London, an advance be made 
from the funds of the National Research Council, allotted to the Executive Board, unless other 
means can be found, to cover the emergency in the disbursement of government funds for the 
offices of the Scientific Attaches in London and Paris during the month of June, with the un- 
derstanding that the sum so advanced will be returned to the National Research Council 
from the President's allotment for the expenses of the Council through the Council of National 
Defense; that the amount to be advanced be left to the discretion of the Chairman and Sec- 
retary, provided it shall not exceed $6000 in all; $3000 for the London and $3000 for the Paris 
office. (Adopted.) 
Moved: That the expenses of Scientific Attaches Mendenhall, Howe, and Washington as 
delegates of the National Research Council to the meetings in Brussels be referred to the Com- 
mittee on Delegates (Messrs. Walcott, Leuschner, Yerkes) with power, with the understand- 
ing that the total expenses involved will not exceed $1500. (Adopted.) 
The Chairman reported on the repairs and alterations required to pre- 
pare the Navy League Building for the use of the Council and stated that 
the owners had asked for a week's delay in completing the lease on account 
of a prospective sale of the property, and that under these circumstances an 
option to June 15, 1919 on the removal of the lease of the present quarters had 
been secured. 
