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and forty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-nine dollars, or so 

 much thereof as shall by the Board of Regents of the Institution 

 established by this act be deemed necessary, be, and the same is 

 hereby, appropriated for the erection of suitable buildings, and for 

 other current incidental expenses of said Institution; and that six per 

 cent, interest on the said trust fund, it being the said amount of five 

 hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars, 

 received into the United States treasury on the first of September, 

 one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, payable, in half-yearly 

 payments, on the first of January and July in each year, be, and the 

 same is hereby, appropriated for the perpetual maintenance and sup- 

 port of said Institution; and all expenditures and appropriations to 

 be made from time to time, to the purposes of the Institution afore- 

 said, shall be exclusively from the accruing interest, and not from the 

 principal of the said fund. And be it further enacted, That all the 

 moneys 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, be, and the same hereby are, pledged to refund to 

 the treasury of the United States the sums hereby appropriated. 



SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the business of the said 

 Institution shall be conducted at the city of Washington by a . board 

 of regents, by the name of the Regents of the "Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion," to be composed of the Vice-President of the United States, the 

 Chief Justice of the United States, and the mayor of the city of 

 Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respec- 

 tive offices; three members of the Senate, and three members of the 

 House of Representatives; together with six other persons, other than 

 members of Congress, two of whom shall be members of the National 

 Institute in the city of Washington, and resident in the said city; and 

 the other four thereof shall be inhabitants of States, and no two of 

 them of the same State. And the regents to be selected as aforesaid 

 shall be appointed immediately after the passage of this act the mem- 

 bers of the Senate by the president thereof, the members of the House 

 by the speaker thereof, and the six other persons by joint ^resolution 

 of the Senate and House of Representatives; and the members of the 

 House, so appointed, shall serve until the fourth Wednesday in Decem- 

 ber, the second next after the passage of this act; and then, and bien- 

 nially thereafter, on every alternate fourth Wednesday of December, 

 a like number shall be appointed in the same manner, to serve until the 

 fourth Wednesday in December, the second succeeding their appoint- 

 ment. And the senators so appointed shall serve during the term for 

 which they shall hold, without reelection, their office as senators. 

 And vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be 

 filled as vacancies in committees are filled; and the other six members 

 aforesaid shall serve, two for two years, two for four years, and two for 



