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natural history which are now deposited in their respective ofhces, or 

 which may be brought there resulting from surveys of the unexplored 

 portions of our own country, or from the exploring expedition now 

 in the South Seas, by the authority and at the expense of the United 

 States, or otherwise, a sum not to exceed $500. 

 (Stat. V, 406.) 



March 3. 1841. 



An act making appropriations for the Naval Service for the year 1841. 



For defraying the expense of transporting to the city of Washing- 

 ton and arranging and preserving the collections made by the explor- 

 ing expedition, $5,000. 

 , (Stat. V, 420.) 



INTERNATIONAL, EXCHANGES 



July 20, 1840. 



Be it resolved^ etc.,, That the librarian, under the supervision of the 

 Committee on the Library, be authorized to exchange such duplicates 

 as may be in the library for other books or works. 



Second. That he be authorized, in the same way, to exchange 

 documents. 



Third. That hereafter fifty additional copies of the documents, 

 printed by order of either House, be printed and bound for the pur- 

 pose of exchange in foreign countries. 



(Stat. V, 409.) 



TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, 1841-1843. 



BEQUEST OF JAMES SMITHSON. 

 September 2, 1841— House. 



Mr. Millard Fillmore, from the Committee of Ways and Means, to 

 whom resolutions of instruction had heretofore been referred, reported 

 a bill (H. 34) to repeal the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to 

 provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States 

 for the year 1838, and for other purposes," passed July, 1838, and to 

 prohibit any investment of the funds of the United States in stocks of 

 the several States. 



The section proposed to be repealed is as follows: 



Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the money arising from the bequest of 

 the late James Smithson, of London, for the purpose of founding at Washington, in 

 this District, an institution to be denominated the Smithsonian Institution, which 

 may be paid into the Treasury, is hereby appropriated, and shall be invested by the 

 Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United 



