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also as teachers or professors in various branches of science; they may also employ 

 able men to lecture upon useful subjects, and shall fix the compensation of such 

 lecturers and professors: Provided, however, That there shall not be established, in 

 connection with the Institution, any school of law, or medicine, or divinity, nor any 

 professorship of ancient languages. And the said managers shall make, from the 

 interest of said fund, an appropriation, not exceeding $5,000 annually, for the gradual 

 formation of a library, composed chiefly of the best works on the physical sciences, 

 and the application of science to the arts of life, but without excluding valuable 

 and standard works pertaining to other departments of human knowledge. 



SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said board of managers shall make all 

 needful rules, regulations, and by-laws for the government of the Institution and the 

 persons employed therein; and, in prescribing the duties of the professors and 

 lecturers, they shall have reference to the introduction and illustration of subjects 

 connected with the application of science to the productive and liberal arts of life, 

 improvements in agriculture, in manufactures, in trades, and in domestic economy; 

 and they shall also have special reference to the increase and extension of scientific 

 knowledge generally, by experiment and research; and the managers may, at 

 their discretion, cause to be printed, from time to time, any lecture or course of 

 lectures which they may deem useful; and it shall be the duty of each lecturer, 

 while in the service of the Institution, to submit a copy of any lecture or lectures 

 delivered by him, to the managers, if required and called upon, for the purpose of 

 being printed; and such lectures, when printed, shall be at all times offered for sale 

 at the lowest rate that will repay the actual expense of publication. ' 



SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said board of managers shall also make 

 rules and regulations for the admission of students into the various departments of 

 the institution, and their conduct and deportment while they remain therein: Pro- 

 vided, That all instruction in said Institution shall be gratuitous to those students 

 who conform to such rules and regulations. 



SEC. 10. And be it further enacted. That it shall be competent for the board of man- 

 agers to cause to be printed and published periodically or occasionally essays, pam- 

 phlets, magazines, or other brief works or productions for the dissemination of infor- 

 mation among the people, especially works in popular form on agriculture and its 

 latest improvements, on the sciences and the aid they bring to labor, manuals 

 explanatory of the best systems of common school instruction, and generally tracts 

 illustrative of objects of elementary science and the rudiments of history, chemis- 

 try, astronomy, or any other department of useful knowledge; also, they may pre- 

 pare sets of illustrations, specimens, and apparatus, suited for primary schools: 

 Provided, That the same shall at all times be offered for sale at the lowest rate that 

 will repay the actual expense of preparation or publication. 



SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That of any other moneys which have accrued, 

 or shall hereafter accrue, as interest upon the said Smithsonian fund, not herein 

 appropriated, or not required for the purposes herein provided, the said managers 

 are hereby authorized to make such disposal as they shall deem best suited for the 

 promotion of the purposes of the testator, anything herein contained to the contrary 

 notwithstanding. 



SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That and Joseph G. Totten and Alex- 

 ander Dallas Bache, members of the National Institute, and resident in the city of 

 Washington, be the seven managers who, by the second section of this act, are to be 

 appointed by Congress. 



SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That there is reserved to Congress the right of 

 altering, amending, adding to, or repealing any of the provisions of this act: Pro- 

 vided, That no contract, or individual right, made or acquired under such provisions, 

 shall be thereby divested or impaired. 



