116 EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, 

 and geological and mineralogica] specimens belonging, or hereafter to 

 belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington, 

 in whosesoever custody the same may be, shall be delivered to such 

 persons as may be authorized by the ]3oard of Regents to receive them, 

 and shall be arranged in such order, and so classed, as best to facilitate 

 the examination and study of them, in the building so as aforesaid to 

 be erected for the Institution ; and the Regents of said Institution shall 

 afterwards, as new specimens in natural h'story, geology, or mineralog}'", 

 may be obtained for the museum of the Institution, by exchanges of 

 duplicate specimens belonging to the Institution, (which they are here- 

 by authorized to make,) or by donation, whicli the}^ i^ay receive, or 

 otherwise, cause such new specimens to be also appropriately classed 

 and arranged. And the minerals, books, manuscripts, and other pro- 

 perty of James Smithson, which have been received by the Govern- 

 ment of the United States, and are now placed in the Department of State,, 

 shall be removed to said Institution, and shall be preserved separate 

 and apart from other property of the Institution. 



Sec. 7. And be it furtlter enacted^ That the Secretary of the Board 

 of Regents shall take charge of the building and property of said Insti- 

 tution, and sh;ill, under their direction, make a fiir and accurate record 

 of all their proceedings, to be preserved in said Institution ; and the 

 said Secretcuy shall also discharge the duties of librarian and keeper 

 of the museum, and may, with the consent of the Board of Regents, 

 employ assistants ; and the said officers shall receive for their services 

 such sums as may be allowed by tlie Board of Regents, to be paid 

 semi-annually on the first days of Januar\^ and July ; and the said offi- 

 cers shall be removable by the Board of Regents, whenever, in their 

 judgment, the interests of the Institution require any of the said officers 

 to be changed. 



Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That the members and honorary 

 members of said Institution may hold such stated and special meetings, 

 for the supervision of the affairs of said Institution and the advice and 

 instruction of said Board of Regents, to be called in the manner provi- 

 ded for in the By-laws of said Institution, at which the President, and, 

 in his absence, the Vice-President, of the United States shall preside. 

 And the said Regents shall make, from the interest of said fiind, an 

 appropriation, not expeeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars 

 annually, for the gradual formation of a library composed of" valuable 

 works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge. 



Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That of any other moneys which 

 have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as interest upon the said 

 Smithsonian fund, not herein appropriated, or not required l()r the pur- 

 poses herein provided, the said managers are hereby authorized to 

 make such disposal as they shall deem best suited for the promotion of" 

 the purpose of the testator, anything herein contained to the contrary 

 notwithstanding. 



Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the author or pro})rietor of 

 any book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, 

 for which a copyright shall be secured under the existing acts of 

 Congress, or those which shall hereafter be enacted respecting copy- 



