THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 7G7 



United States Treasury, payable in half-yearly 

 payments, on the first of January and July in 

 each year, is hereby appropriated for the per- 

 petual maintenance and support of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution ; and all expenditures and 

 appropriations to be made, from time to time, to 

 the purposes of the Institution shall be exclu- 

 sively from the accruing interest, and not from 

 the principal of the fund. All the moneys and 

 stocks which have been, or may hereafter be, 

 received into the Treasury of the United States, 

 on account of the fund bequeathed by James 

 Smithson, are hereby pledged to refund to the 

 Treasury of the United States the sums hereby 

 appropriated. 



Sec. 5591. The Secretary of the Treasury is othSftSS?. 06 of 

 authorized and directed to receive into the . e Feb., is>7, o. 



34, s. 1, v. 4, p. 



Treasury, on the same terms as the original 891 ' 

 bequest of James Smithson, such sums as the 

 Regents may, from time to time, see fit to deposit, 

 not exceeding, with the original bequest, the sum 

 of one million dollars. 



Sec. 5592. The Regents are authorized to ap^ropdatedmo- 



make such disposal of any other moneys which — 



have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as inter- 105! 8 " a ' v ' 9 ' p " 

 est upon the Smithsonian fund, not herein appro- 

 priated, or not required for the purposes herein 

 provided, as they shall deem best suited for the 

 promotion of the purpose of the testator. 



Sec. 5593. Whenever money is required for Disbursements. 

 the payment of the debts or performance of the m! lA '\ "' *' p ' 



