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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
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this date when the Board is not in session".

The following resolution was then considered:

RESOLVED: That after this date if the Superintendent of Construction of the new building for the National Museum, whose services are provided for in the Sundry Civil Act approved March 3, 1903, shall become incapacitated for the performance of his duties when the Board is not in session, the Secretary of the Institution, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee, is hereby authorized and directed to personally take charge of the work of construction on behalf of the Board and to disburse appropriations made for the same, or appoint some suitable person or persons to take charge of said construction and disburse such appropriations.

On motion the resolution was adopted.

Statement of Permanent Committee.

Status of Andrews will case.

Mr. Henderson, Chairman of the Permanent Committee, said that the Andrews will case was about the only matter to be brought before the Board by the Committee, and read the following letter and report from Mr. Hackett, the Institution's counsel in the case:

LAW OFFICES OF 
FRANK W. HACKETT,
UNION TRUST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D.C.

November 30, 1907.

Hon. J. B. Henderson,
16th & Fla. Ave.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator:-

In reply to yours of the 29th, asking me to send to you by Monday morning a concise statement of the points involved in the Andrews will case, now pending in the Court of Appeals, at Albany, I enclose a memorandum, which I have endeavored to make as

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