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before receiving any part of said legacy, give a bond or bonds, in the penal 

 sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to the Treasurer of the United States, 

 and his successors in office, with good and sufficient securities to the satis- 

 faction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful performance of 

 the duties of the said agency, and for the faithful remittance to the Treasu- 

 rer of the United States of all and every sum or sums of money, or other 

 funds, which he or they may receive, for payment in whole or in part of 

 the said legacy. And the Treasurer of the United States is hereby author- 

 ized and required to keep safely all sums of money or other funds which 

 may be received by him in virtue of the said bequest, and to account there- 

 for separately from all other accounts of his office, and subject to sueh 

 further disposal thereof as may be hereafter provided by Congress. 



Sec. 3. A7id be it further enacted, That any and all sums of money, and 

 other funds, which shall be received for 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 establishment for the increase and diffusion of 

 knowledge among men ; to which application of the said moneys and other 

 funds, the faith of the United States is hereby pledged. 



Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, to the end that the claim to the 

 said bequest may be prosecuted with effect, and the necessary expenses in 

 prosecuting the same be defrayed, the President of the United States be, 

 and he is hereby, authorized to apply to that purpose any sum not exceed- 

 ing ten thousand dollars, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated. 



Approved, 1st of July, 1836. 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



House of Representatives, December 21, 1835. 



A message, in writing, was received from the President 

 of the United States, by Mr. Donelson, his private secre- 

 tary, which was read. (See ante.) 



Ordered, That the said message be referred to a select 

 committee, and Mr. John Quinc}' Adams, Mr. Thomas, Mr. 

 Garland of Virginia, Mr. Pearce of Rhode Island, Mr. 

 Speight, Mr. McKefinan, Mr. Hannegan, Mr. Garland of 

 Louisiana, and Mr. Chapin, were appointed said committee. 



House of Representatives, January 19, 1836. 



Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the committee appointed 

 on the message of the President of the United States, of 

 the 17th of December ultimo, and which was laid before 

 the House on the 21st, communicating information in rela- 

 tion to a bequest made by James Smithson, late of London, 

 in the Kingdom of Great Britain, deceased, to the United 

 States, for the purpose of establishing a seminary of learn- 

 ing, reported, (by leave,) a bill (No. 187) to authorize the 

 President of the United States to assert and prosecute with 

 effect the right of the United States to the bequest of James 



