XXIV ORGANIZATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



Sec. 5588. The site and lands selecrted for buildings for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution shall be deemed appropriated to the institution, and 

 the record of the description of such site and lands, or a cop}^ thereof, 

 certified ]\y the chancellor and Secretary of the Board of Reoents, 

 shall be received as evidence in all courts of the extent and boundaries 

 of the lands appropriated to the institution. 



Sec. 5589. All laws for the protection of public propert}' in the city 

 of Washington shall apply to, and l)e in force for, the protection of 

 the lands, buildings, and other property of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. All moneys recovered by or accruing to, the institution shall ])e 

 paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the Smith- 

 sonian bequest, and separately accounted for. 



Sec. 5590. So much of the property of James Smithson as has been 

 received in money, and paid into the Treasury of the United States, 

 being the sum of five hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred 

 and sevent3'-nine dollars and sixty-three cents, shall be lent to the 

 United States Treasury, at six per centum per annum interest; and 

 six per centum interest on the trust-fund and residuary legacy received 

 into the United States Treasury, payal)le in half-yearly payments, on 

 the first of January and Juh' in each year, is hereby appropriated for 

 the perpetual maintenance and support of the Smithsonian Institution ; 

 and all expenditures and appropriations to l)e made, from time to time, 

 to the purposes of the institution shall be exclusively from the accru- 

 ing interest, and not from the principal of the fund. All the moneys 



extension of the Library of Congress, upon completion of a sufficient portion thereof 

 for its accommodation, and shall, while there deposited, be subject to the same regu- 

 lations as the Library of Congress, except as hereinafter provided. 



"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Smithsonian Institution, tlirough its 

 Secretary, shall have the use of the lib'-ary of Congress, subject to the same regula- 

 tions as Senators or Representatives." — (Statutes, XIV, 13.) 



By act of April 5, 1866, as given in Revised Statutes, 1875: 



"Sec 99. The library collected by the Smithsonian Institution under the provi- 

 sions of the act of August 10, 1816, chapter 25, and removed from the building of that 

 Institution, with the consent of the Regents thereof, to the Library of Congress, shall, 

 while there deposited, be subject to the same regulations as the Library of Congress, 

 except as hereinafter provided. 



"Sec. 100. The Smithsonian Institution shall have the use thereof in like manner 

 as before its removal, and the public shall have access thereto for purposes of con- 

 sultation on every ordinary week-day, except during one 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 taking care of 

 the same, or upon snch terms and conditions as shall be mutually agreed upon by 

 Congress and the Regents of the Institution." — (Statutes, XVIII, pt. 1, 1875, 16.) 



