 
 CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--CHARTER PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 44. Organization of board; expenses; gratuitous services

    The Board of Regents shall meet in the city of Washington and elect 
one of their number as chancellor, who shall be the presiding officer of 
the Board of Regents, and called the chancellor of the Smithsonian 
Institution, and a suitable person as Secretary of the institution, who 
shall also be the secretary of the Board of Regents. The board shall 
also elect three of their own body as an executive committee, and shall 
fix the time for the regular meetings of the board; and, on application 
of any three of the regents to the Secretary of the institution, it 
shall be his duty to appoint a special meeting of the Board of Regents, 
of which he shall give notice, by letter, to each of the members; and, 
at any meeting of the board, eight shall constitute a quorum to do 
business. Each member of the board shall be paid his necessary traveling 
and other actual expenses, in attending meetings of the board, which 
shall be audited by the executive committee, and recorded by the 
Secretary of the board; but his service as regent shall be gratuitous.

(R.S. Sec. 5582; Pub. L. 91-551, Sec. 1(d), Dec. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 
1440.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5582 derived from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, Sec. 3, 9 
Stat. 103.


                               Amendments

    1970--Pub. L. 91-551 increased number of members required to 
constitute a quorum from five to eight.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 57, 67 of this title.
