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[[underline]]REPORT ON THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART[[/underline]]

[[underline]]Recommendation[[/underline]]

The [[underline]]ad hoc[[/underline]] committee of the Board of Regents appointed to study the possible acquisition by the Smithsonian of the Museum of African Art unanimously recommends by this report that the Institution enter into negotiations to acquire the Museum. The following resolution is proposed for the Board's adoption:

VOTED that the Board of Regents authorizes the Secretary to execute an Agreement with officials of the Museum of African Art to acquire that Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution. 

The committee further recommends that such an agreement be subject to the following conditions agreed upon at the January 25, 1977 meeting of the Board of Regents:

(1) That appropriate Congressional approval, either in the form of authorizing legislation or some other expression of concurrence, be secured;

(2) That the assumption of responsibility by the Smithsonian be made contingent upon receipt of adequate appropriations;*

*Committee member Mr. Higginbotham recommends that if adequate appropriations are not forthcoming, the Institution seek to reprogram necessary funds from lower priority activities rather than cancelling the acquisition of the Museum.