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[[underlined]] Appointment and Reappointments of Citizen Regents [[/underlined]]

Mr. Austin presented the report of the nominating committee for the Chairman, Mr. Watson, who was unable to attend because of illness.

Mr. Austin referred to the papers contained in the agenda book before each Regent relating to the background, and is incorporated in the discussion that follows.

The Act of August 10, 1846, as amended, which established the Smithsonian Institution, provides that the business of the Institution shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents. In addition to the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives, it is provided that there shall be nine other Regents, other than members of Congress. Two of the latter shall be residents of the city of Washington and the other seven shall be inhabitants of States and no two of them of the same State.
Appointments of the non-Congressional Regents are by joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives, for a term of six years. Traditionally, the Congress acts on the recommendations of the Board of Regents. 
Three of the Regents will reach the end of their current terms this spring, namely:

Mr. Burden: July 2, 1974
Mr. Greenewalt: May 30, 1974
Mr. Haskins: May 30, 1974