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erally, by experiment and research. And the said Regents shall 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 Regents if required. 

 SEC. 11. 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, 

 pamphlets, magazines, or other brief works or productions for the dissemination of 

 information among the people, especially works in popular. form on agriculture and 

 its latest improvements, or 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 treatises on history, natural and civil, 

 chemistry, astronomy, or any other department of useful knowledge; and may, at 

 their discretion, offer and pay to any citizen or foreigner such sum or prize as they 

 may deem discreet for the best written production of any such prize essay or work; 

 and shall, whenever required by resolution of either House of Congress, cause to be 

 printed and delivered to such House, for distribution among the people at large, as 

 public documents of Congress are distributed, so many copies of such lectures, essays, 

 pamphlets, magazines, tracts, or other brief works, as they may procure to be written 

 or delivered, under the provisions of this act, as shall be required by such resolution, 

 the expenses of which to be paid out of the funds of said Institution. 



. The amendment was agreed to. 



Mr. A. G. THURMAN moved an amendment, to .strike out the twelfth 

 section. Rejected. 



Mr. S. A. DOUGLASS moved an amendment, as an additional section 

 (the thirteenth), in the words following: 



SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the author or proprietor of any book, map, 

 chart, musical composition, print, cut, or engraving, for which a copyright shall be 

 secured under the existing acts of Congress, or those which shall hereafter be enacted, 

 respecting copyrights, shall, within three months from the publication of said book, 

 map, chart, musical composition, print, cut, engraving, deliver, or cause to be deliv- 

 ered, one copy of the same to the librarian of the Smithsonian Institution, and one 

 copy to the librarian of the Congress Library, for the use of said libraries. 



The question being taken, the amendment was agreed to. 



The question now being on adopting the substitute of Mr. W. J. 

 Hough, as amended, was taken by tellers, .and decided in the affirma- 

 tive ayes 83, noes 40. 



So the substitute was adopted. 



The committee then rose and reported the bill and amendments to 

 the House. 



The question being first on agreeing to the substitute amendment of 

 the committee, Mr. LINN BOYD demanded the previous question, which 

 was seconded. 



The main question was ordered. 



The yeas and nays were asked and ordered, and being taken, 

 resulted yeas 81, nays 76 as follows: 



YEAS Messrs. John Q. Adams, Arnold, Atkinson, Barringer, Bell, J. A. Black, 

 Brockenbrough, Milton Brown, William G. Brown, Buftington, William W. Camp- 

 bell, John H. Campbell, Carroll, Chiprnan, Clarke, Cobb, Cocke, Collin, Cranston, 

 Crozier, Cullom, Garret Davis, Delano, Dockery, Douglass, Dunlap, John H. Ewing, 

 Edwin H. Ewing, Faran, Ficklin, Foot, Giddings, Grider, Grinnell, Hampton, Har- 



