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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.    XIII

to the Smithsonian Institution, and that the sundry civil bill should be changed in the items relation to the Museum and the Bureau of Ethnology. 

The Chancellor expressed the opinion that all the appropriations ought to be disbursed and controlled by the Institution. 

After remarks by several of the Regents, on motion of Dr. Welling, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That the Regents recommend to Congress that the form of the sundry civil appropriation bill be so changed in the items relating to the Museum and the Bureau of Ethnology as to provide,

First, That these moneys shall be disbursed under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.

Second, That the estimates for the appropriations of the Museum in the future shall be sent directly to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Smithsonian Institution through its Secretary.

On motion, it was resolved that the report of the Executive Committee be accepted.

The Secretary presented the annual report for the year ending June 30, 1887, which had been printed; but he regretted to say that he had not been able to procure copies from the Public Printer in December, in accordance with the resolutions of the Board. 

The Chancellor suggested that some action ought to be taken by Congress to avoid delay in printing the annual reports of the Institution. He thought provision might be made by law for the printing of the Smithsonian Institution outside of the Government Printing Office, as is done in the case of the printing for the Supreme Court. The attention of the Congressional Regents was especially called to this subject.

The Secretary stated that a large amount of the indispensable printing was now done through the Department of the Interior, and some provision ought to be made for this if the connection of the Museum with the Department should cease. He hoped that the Congressional Regents would take some action in this matter.

On motion of Mr. Cox, it was resolved that the report of the Secretary for the year ending June 30, 1887, be accepted, and that the Secretary transmit the same to Congress.

The Chancellor announced that on December 2, 1887, in accordance with the statute, he appointed Mr. G. Brown Goode to act as Acting Secretary in the case of the absence or disability of the Secretary.

The Secretary called the attention of the Board to a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Edmunds on the 12th of December, as follows:

A BILL to provide for paying the widow of the late Spencer F. Baird for the services rendered by him as Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to pay Mrs. Mary C. Baird, widow of the late Spencer F. Baird, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, out of any of the money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation