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of three members, the superintendent shall call a meeting of the board 

 by letter to each member, five constituting a quorum. Each menihcr 

 of the board to l:»e paid his necessary traveling and other actual 

 expenses in attending meetings, which shall be audited and recorded 

 by the superintendent. 



Whenever money is required for the purposes of the institution, 

 the superintendent, or managers, or any three, may certify to tlie 

 president of the board that it is so required; whereupon he shall sub- 

 mit the requisition to a committee of three managers appointed for 

 the purpose of regulating the expenditures, for examination and 

 approval, and upon their examination and approval the president of 

 the board shall certify the same to the proper officer of the Treasury 

 as authority for the payment. The board to make all needful rules, 

 regulations, and by-laws for the government of the institution and 

 the persons employed therein, and shall submit to Congress at each 

 session a report of the operations, expenditures, and condition of the 

 institution. The bill then details the duties of the board in commenc- 

 ing operations. Among the buildings is to be one for the reception of 

 an extensive library, equal to the first class of libraries in the world. 

 When the necessary buildings are erected, all objects of natural his- 

 tory, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging to 

 the United States, in Washington or elsewhere, to be delivered to the 

 institution, where they shall be arranged in such order and so classed 

 as best to facilitate the examination and study of them; new acquisi- 

 tions of the institution to be classed and arranged in like manner; the 

 personal effects of Mr. Smithson to be kept apart and preserved sepa- 

 rate from other property of the institution. The managers to appoint 

 the superintendent of the institution, who is to be secretary to the 

 board and professor of agriculture, horticulture, and rural economy; 

 and he may, with the approbation of the board, employ such gardeners, 

 agriculturists, and laborers as may be required for the institution. He 

 is to make experiments to determine the utility and advantage of new 

 modes and instruments of culture, and whether new fruits, plants, and 

 vegetables may be cultivated to advantage in the United States, and those 

 which shall prove worthy of adoption shall be distributed among the 

 people of the Union. The superintendent to be paid such salary as the 

 board may think proper, and the board may remove him and appoint 

 another in his place whenever the interest of the institution may require 

 it. The board is also to employ competent persons to deliver lectures 

 or courses of lectures in the institution upon literature, science, and 

 art, and on the application of science to art, during the sessions of 

 Congress, commencing next session; to make regulations respecting 

 attendance thereon; to fix the rules of compensation therefor, and 

 to prescribe from time to time the subjects of lectures, having regard to 

 the character of the audience before whom they are delivered and the 



