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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1426

terms expired in 1955: Lloyd Goodrich, Walker Hancock, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. and Lawrence Grant White. 

On motion these recommendations were voted approved.

The secretary announced that officers of the Commission for the ensuing year had been elected as follows: Chairman, Paul Manship, Vice Chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, and Secretary, Leonard Carmichael -- Executive Committee: David E. Finley, Chairman, Robert Woods Bliss, Gilmore D. Clarke, George Hewitt Myers, Leonard Carmichael (ex officio) and Paul Manship (ex officio). 

On motion these elections were voted approved.

The Commission proposed and accepted the following resolution with the deletion of the clause "that the Commission recommends that the designs submitted in the previous competition be considered in connection with building plans;" in the second paragraph:

"WHEREAS the Congress of the United States approved a Joint Resolution on May 17, 1938, titled Public Resolution No. 95, 75th Congress, providing that a suitable tract of public land in the District of Columbia between Fourth and Fourteenth Streets and Constitution and Independence Avenues should be assigned as a site for the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, that appropriate designs for a building for the Gallery should be secured, the sum of $40,000 being appropriated for this purpose, and that the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution should be authorized to solicit and receive funds from private sources to meet the cost of construction of such a building, to purchase works of art, conduct exhibitions, and carry on other related activities; and WHEREAS a competition for designs for such a building was held by the Smithsonian Gallery of Art Commission; therefore be it 

"RESOLVED, the Smithsonian Art Commission strongly favors the early construction of such a building; that the Commission believes that if this is to be accomplished, funds must be appropriated by the Congress in addition to donations from private sources; THAT THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THAT THE DESIGNS SUBMITTED IN THE PREVIOUS COMPETITION BE CONSIDERED IN CONNECTION WITH BUILDING PLANS; and that the Commission requests that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution transmit this resolution to the Regents of the Institution and to other interested persons." 

On motion the above resolution was voted approved.

The following motion was proposed and carried unanimously: 

"It is moved that the Executive Committee be requested to take under advisement the program for the new building and,