ORGANIZATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. XXV 



and stocks which have been, or may hereafter be, received into the 

 Treasury of the United States, on account of the fund bequeathed by 

 James Smithson, are hereby pledged to refund to the Treasury of the 

 United States the sums hereby appropriated. 



SEC. 5591. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 

 to receive into the Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest 

 of James Smithson, such sums as the regents may, from time to time, 

 see fit to deposit, not exceeding, with the original bequest, the sum of 

 one million dollars. 



Provided, That this shall not operate as a limitation on the power 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to receive monej' or other property by 

 gift, bequest, or devise, and to hold and dispose of the same in promo- 

 tion of the purposes thereof. 



SEC. 5592. The regents are authorized to make such disposal of any 

 other moneys which have accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as interest 

 upon the Smithsonian fund, not herein appropriated, or not required 

 for the purposes herein provided, as they shall deem best suited for 

 the promotion of the purposes of the testator. 



SEC. 5593. Whenever money is required for the payment of the debts 

 or performance of the contracts of the institution, incurred or entered 

 into in conformity with the provisions of this Title, or for making the 

 purchases and executing the objects authorized by this Title, the Board 

 of Regents, or the executive committee thereof, ma} T certify to the 

 chancellor and Secretary of the board that such sum of money is 

 required, whereupon they shall examine the same, and, if they shall 

 approve thereof, shall certif y the same to the proper officer of the 

 Treasury for payment. The board shall submit to Congress,* at each 

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

 of the Institution. 



*" The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shall submit to Congress at its 

 next session a detailed statement of the expenditures of the fiscal year, under appro- 

 priations for ' International Exchanges,' ' North American Ethnology,' and the 

 ' National Museum,' and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures 

 under said appropriations shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each 

 regular session thereof." (October 2, 1888. Statutes, XXV, 529.) 



"A report in detail of the expenses on account of the National Zoological Park 

 shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session." (August 5, 

 1892. Statutes, XXVII, 360. ) 



"The annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution shall be hereafter printed at 

 the Government Printing Office, in the same manner as the annual reports of the 

 heads of Departments are now printed, for submission in print to the two Houses of 

 Congress." (March 3, 1885. Statutes, XXIII, 520. ) 



