482 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



Resolution of tlie Board of Regents of the Smitlisonian Institution, adopted at their meeting 

 of June 1, 1850, and appended to the foregoing j)etition. 



Resolved, That it is expedient to enlarge the permanent fund of the Institution by 

 the investment of such sums not exceeding $200,000 as may have been or shall be 

 received for accrued ititerest or otherwise, in addition to the principal sum of the 

 Smithsonian bequest, augmenting the principal sum to that amount, and that appli- 

 cation be made to Congress to receive such sums not exceeding $200,000 as may have 

 been or shall be received for accrued interest or otherwise into the United States 

 Treasury upon the same terms on which the original bequest has been received. 



Resolved, That the secretary be requested to communicate a copy of this resolution 

 to Congress and to request that provision be made by law in accordance therewith. 



January 30, 1851 — Senate. 



Mr. Thomas Ewing, from the Committee on Finance, to which was 

 referred the memorial of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 reported a bill supplementary to an act passed August 10, 1846, 

 entitled "An act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 increase and diffusion of knowledge among men;" which was read and 

 passed to a second reading: 



Be it enacted, etc., That so much of the money now in the hands of the regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, being an accumulation of interest on the principal fund 

 that accrued prior to July first, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and heretofore 

 set apart for the erection of the suitable buildings for the use of said institution, as 

 may not be found necessary for the completion of the edifice now in course of erec- 

 tion, and all such further sums as may be received hereafter from the estate of James 

 Smithson, shall be received into the Treasury of the United States on the same terms 

 as were provided for the original principal fund by the second section of the act 

 entitled "An act to establish the Smithsonian Institution for the increase and diffu- 

 sion of knowledge among men," approved August tenth, eighteen hundred and 

 forty-six, and that the interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum shall 

 in like manner be payable half-yearly on the first of January and July in each year, 

 from and after the date at which it shall be received into the Treasury of the United 

 States for the perpetual maintenance and support of said institution: Provided, That 

 the sums thus to be received shall not exceed the amount of two hundred thousand 

 dollars. 



APPOINTMENT OF KEGENTS. 



£i/ the Yice- President. 

 March 5. 1851— Senate. 



On motion of Mr. J. A. Pearce, the President of the Senate (Mr. 

 William R. King) was authorized to fill the vacancy in the Board of 

 Regents of the Smithsonian Institution occasioned by the expiration, 

 on the 3d day of March, 1851, of the term of Jefferson Davis, of 

 Mississippi. 



March 6, 1851— Senate. 



On motion of Mr. J. A. Pearce, the President of the Senate (Mr. 

 William R. King) was authorized to fill the vacanc}' in the Board of 

 Regents occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of James 

 M. Mason. 



The President (Mr. King) reappointed Jefierson Davis and James 

 M. Mason as Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



