664 CONGEESSIONAL PEOCEEDINGS. 



February 27, 1867— House. 



Auniuil report for 1866 presented. 



Mr. J. A. Garfield moved that 5,000 extra copies be printed. 

 February 28, 1867— House. 



Mr. A. H. Laflin, frbm the Committee on Printing, offered 

 resolution : 



That 5,000 additional copies of the last report of the Smithsonian Institution l)e 

 printed; 2,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution, and 3,000 for the use of the 

 members of this House; and that the same be stereotyped. 



Adopted. 

 March 1, 1867— Senate. 



Mr. H. B. Anthony, from the Committee on Printing, offered 

 resolution : 



That 5,000 additional copies of the report of the Smithsonian Institution, for the 

 year 1866, be printed; 2,000 for the use of the Smithsonian Institution, and 3,000 for 

 the use of the Senate; and that said report be stereotyped : Provided, That the aggre- 

 gate number of pages contained in said report shall not exceed 450, without wood- 

 cuts or plates, except those furnished by the Institution. 



Agreed to. 



EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 

 July 26, 1866. 



Resolved^ etc. , That the Joint Committee on the Library be authorized 

 and instructed to grant to the Navy Department the use of such 

 of the engraved plates of the United States Exploring Expedition 

 under Captain Wilkes, now in charge of said committee, as may be 

 desired for the purpose of printing a supply of charts for the use of 

 said Department. 



(Stat., XIV, 366.) 



AMENDMENT TO ACT OF ORGANIZATION OF SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 



February 1, 1867 — House. 

 The following memorial was presented to Congress: 



To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, etc.: 



The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution have directed the undersigned 

 to transmit to your honorable body the resolution herewith appended, and to solicit 

 the passage of an act in accordance therewith. 



It is known to your honorable body that the original sum received into the United 

 States Treasury from the bequest of James Smithson, of England, was $515,169, 

 which was considered a trust fund, the interest alone to be applied to carrying out 

 the purpose of the testator, viz, "The increase and diffusion of^ knowledge among 

 men." 



This, however, was not the whole of the Smithsonian bequest, the sum of £5,015 

 having been left by Hon. R. Rush, the agent of the United States, as the principal 

 of an annuity to the mother of the nephew of Smithson. 



The annuitant having died, the sum of $26,210.63 has been received from this 

 source, and is now in charge of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; 



