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ten per cent, of the said annual iuterestfrom the whole fund, as well as 

 any additional gift or unexpended balance at the end of each year, they 

 shall from time to time invest, and the same shall be and become a part 

 of the principal, for the steady increase of the permanent and producing 

 fund of said " Toner Lectures." It is hereby provided that the said 

 trustees shall hold at least one regular meeting annually ; keep a cor- 

 rect record, in a book for the purpose, of all proceedings and actions as 

 trustees, with a statement of the expenditures of the revenue, and the 

 condition of the fund, where and how invested ; all of which they may, 

 from time to time, at their pleasure make public, and be governed in all 

 matters relating to the general execution of the trusts and intentions 

 herein expressed and declared, and in the investing and disbursing of 

 all trust-moneys, by such rules and regulations as may from time to time 

 be adopted by them for their own government, with this express con- 

 dition, however : that for the election of any new trustee to fill a va- 

 cancy, for the sale of any property or stocks or securities, or the invest- 

 ment of any funds, the approval of a majority of said trustees, in writing 

 or by their votes at a meeting of the trustees, shall be absolutely neces- 

 sary. 



And it is further provided, that in case of the failure at any time of 

 the purposes for which this trust is created, or in case of the failure of 

 the trustees to act for three successive years, or in case of the total fail- 

 ure of the trustees to give effect to this trust, then, and in any such 

 contingency, the fund hereby provided for and created shall revert to 

 the said party of the first part and his heirs or personal representatives. 



In testimony whereof, the said party of the first part hath hereunto 

 set his hand and seal on the day and year first hereinbefore written. 



J. M. TONER. 



Signed, sealed and delivered before Edward Clark, justice of the 

 oeace, in the presence of — 

 S. n. Kauffman, 

 G. B. Goff. 



We hereby accept the foregoing trust. 



JOSEPH HENRY, 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 J. K. BARNES, 

 Surgeon- General United States Army. 



J. M. FOLTZ, 

 Surgeon-General United States Navy. 

 GRAFTON TYLER, M. D., 

 President Medical Society of the District of Columbia, 

 JOSEPH MEREDITH TONER, M. D. 



