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provided for in the by-laws of the Institution, at 

 which the President, and in his absence the Vice- 

 President, shall preside. 



Sec. 5586. Whenever suitable arrangements Reception and 



>=> arrangement of 



can be made from time to time for their recep- oKjectBofart. 

 tion, all objects of art and of foreign and curious Ibld -' 8 - 6 - 

 research, and all objects of natural history, plants, 

 and geological and mineralogical specimens, be- 

 longing to the United States, which may be in 

 the city of Washington, in whosesoever custody 

 they may be, shall be delivered to such persons 

 as may be authorized by the Board of Regents 

 to receive them, and shall be so arranged and 

 classified in the building erected for the Institu- 

 tion as best to facilitate the examination and 

 study of them ; and whenever new specimens in 

 natural history, geology, or mineralogy are ob- 

 tained for the museum of the Institution, by 

 exchanges of duplicate specimens, which the 

 Regents may in their discretion make, or by 

 donation, which they may receive, or otherwise, 

 the Regents shall cause such new specimens to 

 be appropriately classed and arranged. The 

 minerals, books, manuscripts, and other property 

 of James Smithson, which have been received by 

 the Government of the United States, shall be 

 preserved separate and apart from other property 

 of the Institution. 



Sec. 5587. The Regents shall make, from the Library. 



interest of the fund, an appropriation, not Ibid -»«.8. 

 exceeding an average of twenty-live thousand 



