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 104 TWENTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 178. 1846. certify the same to the proper officer of the treasury for payment Bam ,,,,,1 ,,_ And the said board shall submit to Uougress, at each session thereof; gon annually to a report of the operations, expenditures, and condition, of the inst;. °"g'°”‘ tution. Regents to se- Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, after the board of regents giiiiwiitg when to proceed to select a suitable site for such building as may be neces. sary for the institution, which ground may be taken and appropriated out of that part of the public ground in the city of Washington lying Proviso. between the patent office and Seventh Street: Provided, The President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Commissioner of the Patent Office, shall consent to the same; but, if the persons last named shall not consent, then such location may be made upon any other of the public grounds within the city of Washington, belonging to the United States, which said regents may select, by and with the consent of the persons herein named; and the said ground, so selected, shall be set out by proper metes and bounds, Selection tobe and a description of the same shall be made, and recorded in a book ’°°°’d€d· to be provided for that purpose, and signed by the said regents, or so many of them as may be convened at the time of their said organization; and such record, or a copy thereon certified by the chancellor Co y of such and secretary of the board of regents, shall be received in evidence, in 56igg *° be °'l‘ all courts, of the extent and boundaries of the lands appropriated to ° °' the said institution; and, upon the making of such record, such site and lands shall be deemed and taken to be appropriated, by force of this act, to the said institution. _ Description or Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That, so soon as the board of b¤ildi¤Jz to be regents shall have selected the said sito, they shall cause to be erected °r°°t°a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms or hall for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical `laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the neces_sary lecture rooms; and the said board shall have authority, by themselves, or by a committee of three of their mem- Board of re- bers, to contract for the completion of such building, upon such plan §:“*:0x;‘:,§*;;"*’,§j)‘: as may be directed by the board of regents, and shall take sufficient the mom,,, of a security for the building and finishing the same according to the said suitable biulding- plan, and in the time stipulated in such contract; and may so locate said building, if they shall deem it proper, as in appearance to form a wing to the patent office building, and may so connect the same with the present hall of said patent office building, containing the national cabinet of curiosities, as to constitute the said hall, in whole or in part, the deposit for the cabinet of said institution, if they deem it Proviw- expedient to do so: Provided, said building shall be located upon said patent office lot, in the manner aforesaid: Provided, however, That the whole expense of the building and enclosures aforesaid shall not exceed the amount of ——-—(a) dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, payable out of money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, together with such sum or sums out of the annual interest I accruing- to the institution as may, in any year, remain unexpended, corggghscgtvs S after paying the current expenses of the institution. And duplicates deposited with of all such contracts as may be made by the said board of regents the treasurer. shall be deposited with the treasurer of the United States; and all claims on any contract made as aforesaid shall be allowed and certified by the board of regents, or the executive committee thereof, as (a) No sum is inserted in the record at Washington.
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