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ment and perpetual security of the accumulated fund, and 

 when your honorable body is assured that the organization 

 and operation of the institution have received the approba- 

 tion of the wise and good, not only in this country, but in 

 €very part of the world where literature and science are 

 cultivated, the undersigned trusts that the request will be 

 granted. 



And your petitioner will ever pray, &c. 



(Signed) Joseph Henry, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Resolution of the Board of Rerjents of the SmWisonian Institution, adopted at 

 their meeting of June 1, 1850, a7id appended to the foregoin/j petition. 

 Resolved, That it is expedient to enlarge the permanent fund of the in- 

 stitution, by the investment of such sums not exceeding $200,000 as may 

 have been, or shall be received for accrued interest or otherwise, in addi- 

 tion to the principal sum of the Smithsonian bequest, augmenting the prin- 

 cipal sum to that amount, and that application be made to Congress to 

 receive such sums not exceeding $200,000 as may have been or shall be re- 

 ceived for accrued interest or otherwise into tlie United States Treasury 

 upon the same terms on which the original bequest has been received. 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to communicate a copy of this 

 resolution to Congress, and to request that provision be made by law in ac- 

 cordance therewith. 



Senate, Januari/ 28, 1851. 



Mr. Walker, of Wisconsin, submitted the following 

 resolution ; which lies over one day under the rule : 



Resolved, That the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution bo 

 ■directed to inform the Senate why the 6th section of the act entitled " An 

 act to establish the Smithsonian Institution, for the increase and diffusion 

 of knowledge among men," has not been complied with by making suitable 

 arrangements for the reception of the "objects of art," &c., named in said 

 section. 



Senate, JaniKmj 30, 1851. 



Mr. Ewing, from the Committee on Finance, to which 

 was referred the memorial of the Regents of the Smithso- 

 nian Institution, reported a bill supplementary to an act 

 passed 10th August, 1846, entitled/' An act to establish the 

 Smithsonian Institution for the increase and difiusion of 

 knowledge among men ;" which was read and passed to a 

 second reading. 



The bill is as follows : 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represetitatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the money now 

 in the hands of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, being an accu- 

 mulation of interest on the principal fund that accrued prior to July first, 

 eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and heretofore set apart for the erection 

 of the suitable buildings for the use of said institution, its may not be found 

 necessary for the completion of the edifice now in course of erection, and 

 all such "further sums as may be received hereafter from the estate of James 



