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natural science. And the board of managers may authorize the professors 

 of the institution to grant to such of its students as may desire it, after 

 suitable examination, certificates of qualification as common school teachers, 

 and also as teachers or professors in various branches of science; they may 

 also employ able men to lecture upon useful subjects, and shall fix the com- 

 pensation of such lecturers and professors : Provided, however, That there 

 shall not be established, in connection with the institution, any school of 

 law, or medicine, or divinity, nor any professorship of ancient languages. 

 And the said managers shall make, from the interest of said fund, an appro- 

 priation, not exceeding an average of ten thousand dollars annually, for the 

 gradual formation of a library, composed of valuable works pertaining to 

 all departments of human knowledge. 



Skc. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said board of managers shall 

 make all needful rules, regulations, and by-laws, for the government of the 

 institution and the persons employed therein ; and, in prescribing the duties 

 of the professors and lecturers, they shall have reference to the introduction 

 and illustration of subjects connected with the application of science to the 

 productive and liberal arts of life, improvements in agriculture, in manu- 

 factures, in trades, and in domestic economy ; and they shall also have 

 special reference to the increase and extension of scientific knowledge gen- 

 erally, by experiment and research. And the managers may, at their dis- 

 cretion, cause to be printed, from time to time, any lecture or course of 

 lectures which they may deem useful. And it shall bo the duty of each 

 lecturer, while in the service of the institution, to submit a copy of any 

 lecture or lectures, delivered by him, to the managers, if required and called 

 upon. 



Sec. 9. And he it further enacted. That the said board of managers shall 

 also make rules and regulations for the admission of students into the vari- 

 ous departments of the institution, and their conduct and deportment while 

 they remain therein : Provided, That all instruction in said institution shall 

 be gratuitous to those students who conform to such rules and regulations. 



Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be competent for the 

 board of managers to cause to be printed and published periodically or occa- 

 sionally essays, pamphlets, magazines, or other brief works or productions 

 for the dissemination of information among the people, especially works in 

 popular form on agriculture and its latest improvements, on the sciences and 

 the aid they bring to labor, manuals explanatory of the best systems of com- 

 mon school instruction, and generally tracts illustrative of objects of ele- 

 mentary science, and treatises on history, natural and civil, chemistry, 

 astronomy, or any other department of useful knowledge ; also, they may 

 prepare sets of illustrations, specimens, apparatus, and school books, suited 

 for primary schools. 



Sec. 11. And he it further enacted, Thatof any other moneys which have 

 accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as interest upon the said Smithsonian 

 fund, not herein appropriated, or not required for the purposes herein pro- 

 vided, the said managers are hereby authorized to make such disposal as 

 they shall deem best suited for the promotion of the purpose of the testator, 

 anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 



Skc. 12. And be it further enacted, That there is reserved to Congress 

 the right of altering, amending, adding to, or repealing any of the provi- 

 sions of this act : Provided, That no contract or individual right, made or 

 acquired under such provisions, shall be thereby divested or impaired. 



Your committee further report, that though they do not 

 consider it in strictness a part of their duty to refer to the 

 purchases of stocks wliich Congress has seen fit to make 

 with the money paid into the Treasury as the Smitlisonian 

 fund, yet they have inquired into the present condition of 



