2 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



Auboin, at Bourg la Reine, near Paris, I give and bequeath 

 for his life the whole of the income arising from my prop- 

 erty of every nature and kind whatever, after the payment 

 of the above annuity, and after the death of John Fitall, 

 that annuity likewise, the payments to be at the time the 

 interest or dividends become due on the stocks or other 

 property from which the income arises. 



Should the said Henry James Ilungerford have a child or 

 children, legitimate or illegitimate, I leave to such child or 

 children, his or their heirs, executors and assigns, after the 

 death of his, her, or their father, the whole of my property 

 of every kind absolutely and forever, to be divided between 

 them, if there is more than one, in the manner their father 

 shall judge proper, and in case of his omitting to decide 

 this, us the Lord Chancellor shall judge proper. 



Should my nephew Henry James Hungerford marry, I 

 empower him to make a jointure. 



In case of the death of my said nephew without leaving 

 a child or children, or of the death of the child or children 

 he may have had under the age of 21 years or intestate, I 

 then bequeath the whole of my property, subject to the 

 annuity of £100 to John Fitall, and for the security and 

 payment of which I mean stock to remain in this country, 

 to the United States of America, to found at Washington, 

 under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an estab- 

 lishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among 

 men. 



I think it proper here to state, that all the money which 

 will be standing in the French five per cents, at my death 

 in the names of the father of my above mentioned nephew, 

 Henry James Hungerford, and all that in my name, is the 

 property of my said nephew, being what he inherited from 

 his father, or what I have laid up for him from the savings 

 upon his income. 



James Smithson. [l. s.] 



