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section to avoid any possible difficulty, he would have no objection to 

 passing over the bill informally till to-morrow. 



The amendments made in Committee of the Whole were then con- 

 curred in. 

 January 22, 1845— Senate. 



The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill S. 18, and further 

 amended it. 

 January 23, 1845— Senate. 



The bill S. 18 passed. 

 January 27, 1845 — House. 



Message from the Senate that bill S. 18 had passed. 



Mr. Edmund Burke asked the unanimous consent of the House to 

 refer this bill to the Committee of the Whole, but objection was made. 

 January 28, 1845 — House. 



On motion of Mr. Edmund Burke, bill S. 18 was committed to the 

 Committee of the Whole. 

 February 10, 1845 — House. 



Mr. Robert Dale Owen submitted an amendment to, or substitute 

 for, S. 18; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole. 



On motion by Mr. Owen, the committee took up the bill to establish 

 the Smithsonian Institution, and, after some remarks from Mr. J. Q. 

 Adams, Mr. Owen, and others, Mr. Adams moved that the bill be laid 

 aside; which was agreed to. 

 March 3, 1845. 



A joint resolution (No. 14) was signed by the President: 



That whenever any State shall have been, or may be, in default for the payment 

 of interest or principal on investments in its stocks or bonds, held by the United 

 States in trust, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to retain the 

 whole, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the percentage to which such State 

 may be entitled, of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands within its limits, and 

 apply the same to the payment of said interest or principal, or to the reimbursement 

 of any sums of money expended by the United States for that purpose. 



[Stat., V, 801.] 



[This had reference to the States in which the Smithson fund had 

 been invested.] 



March 3, 1845— House. 



Mr. Edmund Burke ofi'ered resolution: 



Resolved, That all debate in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the 

 Union on Senate bill 18 to establish the Smithsonian Institution shall cease in ten 

 minutes after the same shall be again taken up in committee (if the committee 

 shall not sooner come to a conclusion upon the same) ; and the committee shall then 

 proceed to vote on such amendments as may be pending, or offered to the same, and 

 shall then report it to the House with such amendments as may have been agreed to 

 by the committee. 



The resolution was read; when Mr. George W. Jones moved that 

 it be laid upon the table. 



