6 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



the whole of mj property of ever}" kind absolutely & forever, to be 

 divided between them, if there is more than one, in the manner their 

 father shall judge proper, or, in ease of his omitting to decide this, as 

 the Lord Chancellor shall judge proper. 



Should my said Nephew, Henry James Hungerford, marry, I em- 

 power him to make a jointure. 



In the case of the death of my said Nephew without leaving a child 

 or children, or the death of the child or children he may have had 

 under the age of twenty-one years or intestate, I then bequeath the 

 whole of my property, subject to the Annuity of One hundred pounds 

 to John Fitall, & for the security & payment of which I mean Stock 

 to remain in this Country, to the United States of America, to found 

 at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an 

 Establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge among men, 



I think it proper here to state, that all the money which will be 



standing in the French live per cents, at my death in the names of the 



father of my above mentioned Nephew, Henry James Hungerford, & 



all that in my names, is the property of my said Nephew, being what 



he inherited from his father, or what I have laid up for him from the 



savings upon his income. 



James Smithson. [l. s.] 



