Dec. 19, 1848.
(No. 1.)—A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution.
The present vacancies in board of regents, how to be filled.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the
class “other than members of Congress,” be filled by the reappointment of the late
incumbents, viz., Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts, and Gideon Hawley, of New York.
Approved, December 19, 1848.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Public Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 417 ,