TRUST DEED Xlll 



And I further hereby empower the Trustees to administer any- 

 other funds or property which may be donated or bequeathed to them 

 for the purposes of the Trust ; and I also empower them to appoint 

 such officers as the}'' may consider necessary for carrying on the busi- 

 ness of the Trust, at such salaries or for such remuneration as they 

 may consider proper, and to make such arrangements, and lay down 

 from time to time such rules as to the signature of deeds, transfers, 

 agreements, cheques, receipts, and other writings, as may secure the 

 safe and convenient transaction of the financial business of the Trust. 

 The Committee shall have the fullest power and discretion in dealing 

 with the income of the Trust, and expending it in such manner as 

 they think best fitted to promote the objects set forth in the following 

 clauses : — 



The purposes of the Trust are as follows, and the Revenues there- 

 from are to be devoted thereto : — 



It is proposed to found in the city of Washington, an institution 

 which with the co-operation of institutions now or hereafter estab- 

 lished, there or elsewhere, shall in the broadest and most liberal 

 manner encourage investigation, research, and discovery — show the 

 application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind, provide 

 such buildings, laboratories, books, and apparatus, as may be needed ; 

 and afford instruction of an advanced character to students properly 

 qualified to profit thereby. 



Among its aims are these : 



1. To promote original research, paying great attention thereto 

 as one of the most important of all departments. 



2. To discover the exceptional man in every department of study 

 whenever and wherever found, inside or outside of schools, and 

 enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed 

 his life work. 



3. To increase facilities for higher education. 



4. To increase the efficiency of the Universities and other institu- 

 tions of learning throughout the country, by utilizing and adding 

 to their existing facilities and aiding teachers in the various insti- 

 tutions for experimental and other work, in these institutions as far 

 as advisable. 



5. To enable such students as may find Washington the best point 

 for their special studies, to enjoy the advantages of the Museums, 

 lyibraries, Laboratories, Observatory, Meteorological, Piscicultural, 

 and Forestry Schools, and kindred institutions of the several depart- 

 ments of the Government. 



