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ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE LANGLEY 

 AERODYNAMICAL LABORATORY 



OFFICL\L STATUS 



Authorisation. — On May i, 1913, the Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, approving a general scheme submitted by Secretary 

 Walcott, authorized the Secretary, with the approval of the Execu- 

 tive Committee, to reopen the Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory ; 

 to appoint an Advisory Committee; to add, as means are provided, 

 other laboratories and agencies ; to group them into a bureau organi- 

 zation ; and to secure the cooperation with them of the Government 

 and other agencies. 



Functions. — The Committee is to advise as to the organization and 

 work of the Langley Aerodynamical Laboratory and of the bureau 

 organization when adopted, and the coordination of their activities 

 with the kindred labors of other establishments, Governmental and 

 private ; it is to plan for such theoretical and experimental investiga- 

 tions, tests and reports, as may serve to increase the safety and 

 effectiveness of aerial locomotion for the purposes of commerce, 

 national defense, and the welfare of man. But neither the Com- 

 mittee nor the Smithsonian Institution will promote patented devices, 

 furnish capital to inventors, or manufacture commercially, or give 

 regular courses of instruction for aeronautical pilots or engineers. 



The organization, under regulations to be established and fees to 

 be fixed by the Secretary, approved by the Smithsonian Executive 

 Committee, may exercise its functions for the military and civil de- 

 partments of the Government of the United States, and also for any 

 individual, firm, association, or corporation within the United States; 

 provided, however, that such department, individual, firm, association, 

 or corporation shall defray the cost of all material used and of all 

 services of persons employed in the exercise of such functions. 



With the approval of the Secretary of the Institution, the Com- 

 mittee is to collect aeronautical information, such part of the same as 

 may be valuable to the Government, or the public, to be issued in 

 bulletins and other publications. 



Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 62, No. 1 



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