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[[underlined]]Proposed Bylaws of the Board of Regents[[/underlined]]

The Regents were given an outline of proposed bylaws as well as a copy of the statutory authority of the Smithsonian. Recommended by the Congressional Surveys and Investigations staff, the bylaws will be circulated in draft for the Regents' review in the coming months. The Regents have been invited to comment to the Executive Committee. 

[[underlined]]Open Meetings of the Board of Regents[[/underlined]]

Recognizing the desirability of openness while at the same time not wishing to weaken its decision-making process, the Board considered, and laid over for further consideration, three potential courses of action: (1) to open part of each meeting, (2) to open one meeting a year, or (3) to continue the existing policy of closed meetings with timely and complete reporting to the press and to the Congress. 

[[underlined]]Gilbert Stuart Portraits of George and Martha Washington[[/underlined]]

The Secretary reported on negotiations to date, indicating that it should be possible to reach an agreement with the Boston Athenaeum and the Museum of Fine Arts. No commitments will be made without prior consent of the Regents. 

[[underlined]]Smithsonian Reorganization and Personnel Matters[[/underlined]]

Research Awards Program now administered by Office of Fellowships and Grants; the new Office of Biological Conservation; retirement of the Director of Support Activities; Civil Service reform; treaty-related personnel matters at STRI; recruitments for Librarian and Directors of Natural History Museum, Museum of History and Technology, and Air and Space Museum (selection of Dr. Hinners). 

[[underlined]]Barrow Colorado Island[[/underlined]]

The Regents were asked to support legislation raising the statutorial budget ceiling to $750,000 for programs at BCI, part of the Tropical Research Institute. The following was approved:

VOTED that the Congressional members of the Board of Regents are requested to introduce and support legislation which would amend the Act of July 2, 1940, as amended, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the Canal Zone Biological Area.

[[underlined]]Proposal for a Regents' Fellowship Program[[/underlined]]

Regents Fellows, scholars of great distinction, would enrich the intellectual atmosphere of the Institution and would explore areas of scholarship not already intensively studied here. Up to two Fellows per year with