484 CONGRESSIONAL PKOCEEDINGS. 



THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS, 1851-1853. 



APPROPRIATIONS FOR GROUNDS. 

 April 20, 1852— Senate. 



The Senate having under consideration the deficiency bill, and the 

 following amendment from the Committee on Finance being in order: 



For planting and finishing the roads and walks through that portion of the f^nblic 

 Mall surrounding the Smithsonian Institution, $7,000. 



Mr. R. M. T. Hunter said: This item is estimated for by the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior. It is proposed to appropriate this amount in 

 this bill, instead of appropriating it for the next fiscal year, as this is 

 the planting season. ' 



Agreed to. 

 August 21, 1852— Senate. 



An amendment to the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill for the 

 year ending June 30, 1853, was proposed l)y the Finance Committee, 

 as follows: 



For finishing the grading, manuring, planting, finishing the roads and walks, 

 graveling and laying gutters along the margin of the same, and repairing the fence 

 of the Smithsonian square, |13,200. 

 August 26, 1852— Senate. 



Mr. R. M. T. Hunter moved to amend the amendment offered 

 August 21, by- striking out "$13,200" and inserting "$16,760." 

 Amendment as amended was agreed to. 

 August 30, 1852— Senate. 



In conference committee the Senate receded from the amendment of 

 August 26. 

 March 1, 1853— Senate. 



Mr. R. M. T. Hunter, from the Finance Committee, offered amend- 

 ment to the civil and diplomatic appropriation bill — 



To supply a deficiency for the purchase of trees and hire of laborers on the 

 improvements of reservation No. 2, on public Mall, between Seventh and Twelfth 

 streets west, $5,276.52. 



Agreed to. 

 March 3, 1853— House. 



The House refused to agree to the amendment of the Senate to the 

 civil and diplomatic bill appropriating $5,276.52 for reservation No. 2. 



The amendment having been sent to a committee of conference, the 

 House receded from its disagreement, and the amendment was agreed 

 to. 



INCREASE OF SMITHSON FUND. 



May 27, 1852— Senate. 



Ml'. J. A. Pearce, from the Committee on Finance, reported a bill 

 supplementary to an act approved August 10, 1846, entitled "An act 

 to establish the Smithsonian Institution," etc. : 



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 



