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month of each year, in the recess of Congress, when it may be closed for 

 renovation. All the books, maps, and charts of the Smithsonian library 

 shall be properly cared for and preserved in like manner as are those of the 

 Congressional library, from which the Smithsonian library shall not be 

 removed except on reimbursement by the Smithsonian Institution to the 

 Treasury of the United States of expenses incurred in binding and in tak- 

 ing care of the same, or upon such terms and conditions as shall be mutually 

 agreed upon by Congress and the regents of said institution. 



Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Smithsonian Institution, 

 through its secretary, shall have the use of the library of Congress, subject 

 to the same regulations as Senators and Representatives. 



Sec. 4. And be itjurther enacted, That the librarian of Congress shall be 

 authorized to employ two additional assistants, who shall receive a yearly 

 compensation of eight hundred dollars, and one thousand dollars, respec- 

 tively, commencing July one, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to be paid 

 out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 



Sec. 5. And be itjurther enacted, That the sum of five hundred dollars, 

 or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be appropriated, out of any 

 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses 

 of the removal herein provided for. 



May 7, 1866. — Annual report, for 1865, presented. 

 Mr. Garfield moved that 5,000 extra copies be printed. 

 June 8, 1866. — Mr. Laflin, from the Committee on Print- 

 ing, submitted the following resolution; which was adopted : 



Resolved, That 5,000 extra copies of the last report of the Smithsonian 

 Institution be printed ; 2,000 for the use of the institution, and 3,000 for 

 the use of the members of this House. 



February 1, 1867. — The following]memorial was presented 

 to Congress : 



To the honoi'able the Senate and House of Representatives, ^c. : The Board 

 of Eegents of the Smithsonian Institution have directed the undersigned 

 to transmit to your honorable body the resolution herewith appended, and 

 to solicit the passage of an act in accordance therewith. 



It is known to your honorable body that the original sum received into 

 the United States Treasury from the bequest of James Smithson, of Eng- 

 land, was $515,169, which was considered a trust fund, the interest alone to 

 be applied to carrying out the purpose of the testator, viz : " The increase 

 and diflusion of knowledge among men." 



This, however, was not the whole of the Smithsonian bequest, the sum 

 of £5,015 sterling having been left by Hon. R. Rush, the agent of the 

 United States, as the principal of an annuity to the mother of the nephew 

 of Smithson. 



The annuitant having died, the sum of $26,210.63 has been received from 

 this source, and is now in charge of the Secretary of the Treasury of the 

 United States ; and no provision having been made in the act of August 

 10, 1846, establishing the institution, for the disposition of this remainder 

 of the legacy, your memorialists, in behalf of the Board of Eegents, now 

 ask that it be added to the original bequest on the same terms ; and that 

 the increase which has arisen from interest or otherwise on the sum before 

 mentioned, also in the hands of the Treasury Department of the United 

 States, be transferred to the Board of Regents for assisting to defray the 

 expense of the reconstruction of the building, and for other objects of the 

 institution. 



And your memorialists would further ask that the Board of Regents be 

 allowed to place in the Treasury of the United States, on the same terms 

 as the original bequest, such sums of money as may accrue from savings of 



