12 PROGRAMME OF ORGANIZATION. 



12. A small appropriation should annually be made for models of 

 antiquities, such as those of the remains of ancient temples, &c. 



13. For the present, or until the building is fully completed, be- 

 sides the Secretary, no permanent assistant will be required, except 

 one, to act as librarian. 



14. The Secretary, by the law of Congress, is alone responsible to 

 the Eegents. He shall take charge of the lauilding and property, 

 keep a record of proceedings, discharge the duties of librarian and 

 keeper of the museum, and may,, with the consent of the Eegents, 

 employ assistants. 



15. The Secretary and his assistants, during the session of Congress, 

 will be required to illustrate new discoveries in science, and to exhibit 

 new objects of art ; distinguished individuals should also be invited to 

 give lectures on subjects of general interest. 



This programme, which was at first adopted provisionally, has be- 

 come the settled policy of the Institution. The only material change 

 is that expressed by the following resolutions, adopted January 15, 

 1855, viz: 



Besolved, That the iTth resolution passed by the Board of Eegents, 

 on the 26th of January, 1847, requiring an equal division of the in- 

 come between the active operations and the museum and library, 

 when the buildings are completed, be and it is hereby repealed. 



Besolved, That hereafter the annual appropriations shall be appor- 

 tioned specifically among the difterent objects and operations of the 

 Institution, in such manner as may, in the judgment of the Eegents, 

 be necessary and proper for each, according to its intrinsic import- 

 ance, and a compliance in good faith with the law. 



EEPOET OF THE SENATE JUDICIAEY COMMITTEE.* 



The following is the report presented in the Senate on the Gtli Feb- 

 ruary, 1855, by Judge Butler, from the Committee on the Judiciary, 

 to whom was referred the inquiry whether any, and if any, what, ac- 

 tion of the Senate is necessary and proper in regard to the Smithso- 

 nian Institution : 



''It seems to be the object of the resolution to require the committee 

 to say whether, in its opinion, the Eegents of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution have given a fair and jiroper construction, within the range 

 of discretion allowed to them, to the acts of Congress putting into 

 operation the trust which Mr. Smithson had devolved on the federal 

 government. As the trust has not been committed to a legal corpo- 

 ration subject to judicial jurisdiction and control, it must be regarded 

 as the creature of congressional legislation. It is a naked and hon- 



* Messrs. Butler, Toucey, Bayard, Geyer, Pettit, and Toombs. 



