112 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



penal sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to the Treasurer of the 

 United States and his successors in office, with good and sufficient se- 

 curities to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasur}^ for the faith- 

 ful performance of the duties of the said agency, and for the faithful 

 remittance to the Treasurer of the United States of all and every sum 

 or sums of money or other funds which he or they may receive for pay- 

 ment in whole or in part of the said legacy. And the Treasurer of the 

 United States is hereby authorized and required to keep safely all sums oi" 

 money or other funds which may be received by him in virtue of the said 

 bequest, and to account therefor separately from all other accounts of 

 his office, and subject to such iurther disposal thereof as may be here- 

 after provided by Congress. 



Sec. 3. And be it further cnucted, That any and all sums of money 

 and other iiinds which shall be received lor or on account of the said 

 legacy shall be applied, in such manner as Congress may hereafter 

 direct, to the purpose of founding and endowing at Washington, under 

 the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an EstabUshment for the In- 

 crease and Diffusion of Knowledge among Men, to which application oi' 

 the said monevs and other funds ihc tiiith of the United States is liereby 

 pledged. 



Sec. 4. .472^/ be it further cfuictcd, That, to the end that the claim to 

 the said bequest may be prosecuted with effect, and the necessary ex- 

 penses in prosecuting the same be defrayed, the President of the United 

 States be, and he is hereby, autlprized to apply to that purpose any 

 sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars out of any moneys in the trea- 

 sury not otherwise appropriated. 



Approved .July 1, 1836*. 



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Ax\ ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SMTrHSONlAN INSTITUTION. 



AN ACT to establish the " Smithsonian Institution," ' for the Increase and Diffusion of Know- 

 ledge among Men. 



James Smithson, Esquire, of London, in the kingdom of Great Britain, having by his last 

 will and testament given the whole of his property to the United States of America, to 

 found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an Establisliment 

 for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge among Men; and the United States having, by 

 an act of Congress, received said property, and accepted said trust : therefore, for the faith- 

 ful execution of said trust according to the will of tho libera] and enlightened donor — 



Be it enacted hy the Seiuite and House of Repreaentatives of the United 

 States of America, in Congress assembled, That the President and Vice- 

 President of the United States, the Secretary of State, tiie Secretary- of 

 the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretar}'^ of the Navy, the 

 Postmaster General, the Attorney General, the Chief" Justice, and the 

 Commissioner of the Patent Office of the United States, and the Ma3'^or 

 of the City of Washington, during the time for which they shall hold 

 their respective offices, and such other persons as they may elect hon- 

 orary members, be, and they are hereby, constituted an "Establish- 

 ment," by the name of the "Smithsonian Institution," for the Licrease 

 and Difflision of Knowledge among Men; and by that name shall be 



