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subject, which had been published in all the newspapers he 

 had seen. They would not be called upon to make any dis- 

 position of these funds, because they had not yet received 

 them ; and if they ever did, it would perhaps be fifteen or 

 twenty years first. Upon the whole, he did not consider it 

 at all important that an extra number of this report should 

 be published. 



The motion to print 5,000 extra copies of the report was 

 then agreed to. 



House of Eepresentatives, May 4, 1836. 



A message from the Senate, by Mr. Lowrie, their secre- 

 tary, that the Senate had passed the following resolution : 



No. 4. Resolution to authorize and to enable the Presi- 

 dent to assert and prosecute with efl'ect the claim of the 

 United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James 

 Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found, at Washing- 

 ton, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an 

 establishment for the increase and diftusion of knowledge 

 among men. 



House of Representatives, 31ay 10, 1836. 



The resolution (No. 4) from the Senate was read the first 

 and second time, and committed to the Committee of the 

 Whole House on the state of the Union. 



A motion was made by Mr. Adams, that the rule be sus- 

 pended to enable him to make a motion that said resolution 

 be the special order of the day on Tuesday, the 17th instant, 

 from eleven o'clock a. m. to one p. m. ; which motion to 

 suspend was disagreed to by the House. 



House of Representatives, June 25, 1836. 



In Committee of the Whole, Senate resolution No. 4 was 

 considered and amended. 



The amendments made in Committee of the Whole, one 

 of which amendments changes the Senate resolution into 

 the form of a bill to authorize the President of the United 

 States to assert and prosecute the right of the United States 

 to the legacy of James Smithson, late of London, were re- 

 ported to the House, and were concurred in. 



The bill was ordered to be engrossed, and was then read 

 a third time and passed. 



