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After some conversational discussion on this point, it was agreed to 

 let tiie proposition go, with the offered amendments, to the commit- 

 tee; and 



On the motion of Mr. Levi Woodbuey, the bill and amendments 

 were recommitted to the Committee on the Library. 

 January 16, 1845 — Senate. 



Mr. Benjamin Tappan, from the Committee on the Library, reported 

 the bill S. 18, amended. 

 January 21, 1845 — Senate. 



On motion of Mr. B. Tappan, the previous orders were postponed 

 with a view of taking up the bill for the establishment of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



The bill was accordingly taken up for further consideration as in 

 Committee of the Whole, the question being on adopting the substi- 

 tute reported from the Committee on the Library, to whom had been 

 recommitted the original bill for the purpose of having it remodeled. 



This substitute provides, as the original bill did, for the investment 

 of the principal sum received under the bequest, in the Treasury of 

 the United States, at 6 per cent interest from the date of its recep- 

 tion, and for placing at the disposal of the managers the accumulated 

 and accruing interest for the purpose of carrying out the design of the 

 donor — the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. The out- 

 lay of the accumulated interest is to be, as directed in the first bill, 

 upon all necessaiy buildings, inclosures, purchases, and application of 

 the grounds appropriated out of the property of the United States in 

 the Mall, heretofore described, for the objects of the institution, the 

 business of the institution to be conducted by a board of managers 

 consisting of the Vice-President of the United States, the Chief Jus- 

 tice of the Supreme Court while in office, three members of the Sen- 

 ate, three members of the House of Representatives, and seven other 

 persons not members of Congress, two of whom shall be members of 

 the National Institute in the city of Washington and resident in said 

 city, the other five to be inhabitants of the States, no two from the 

 same State, the three members of the Senate to be appointed by the 

 presiding officer of the Senate and the three members of the House 

 by the Speaker of the House, in each House the respective members 

 so chosen to be a standing committee on the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and together a joint committee. 



These appointments to be made on every fourth Wednesday of 

 December, to serve for one year; vacancies to be filled as they are in the 

 regular committees. The other seven members to serve for two years, to 

 be chosen by j oint resolution of Congress every alternate fourth Wednes- 

 day of December; vacancies to be filled in like manner whenever they 

 occur. The managers to meet on the first Monday in Ma}" next, and 

 fix the times of regular meetings of the board. On any application 



