TRUST DEED BY ANDREW CARNEGIE. 



Creating a Trust for the benefit of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution OF Washington, D. C. 



I, Andrew Carnegie, of New York, having retired from active 

 business, and deeming it to be my duty and one of my highest 

 privileges to administer the wealth which has come to me as a Trustee 

 in behalf of others : and entertaining the confident belief that one 

 of the best means of discharging that trust is by providing funds 

 for improving and extending the opportunities for study and re- 

 search in our country ; and having full confidence in the gentlemen 

 afternamed, who have at my request signified their willingness to 

 carry out the Trust which I have confided to them, therefore I 

 have transferred to these the Trustees of the Carneo:ie Institution of 



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Washington Ten Millions of Registered Five Per Cent Bonds of the 

 United States Steel Corporation, the names of said Trustees being 

 as follows : — 



Ex Officio 



The President of the United States 



The President of the Senate 



The Speaker of the House of Representatives 



The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 



The President of the National Academy of Sciences 



John S. Billings, New York 



William N. Frew, Pennsylvania 



IvYMAN J. Gage, Illinois 



Daniel C. Gilman, Maryland 



John Hay, District of Columbia 



Abram S. Hewitt, New Jersey 



Henry L. Higginson, .... Massachusetts 



Henry Hitchcock, Missouri 



Charles I^. Hutchinson, . . . Illinois 

 William Lindsay, ...... Kentucky 



Seth Low, New York 



Wayne MacVeagh, Pennsylvania 



D. O. Mills New York 



S. Weir Mitchell, Pennsylvania 



William W. Morrow, .... California 



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