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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year 1882
By the organizing act approved August 10, 1846, Revised Statutes, title lxxiii, section 5580, The business of the Institution shall be con ducted at the city of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vic, President, the Chief Justice of the United States [and the Governor ot the District of Columbia], three members of the Senate, and three mem bers of the House of Representatives, together with six other persons, other than members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington, and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.
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