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SEC. 2. Ami be it further enacted, That so soon as the said bond and release shall be 

 executed by the said corporation, and sufficient evidence thereof be laid before the 

 President of the United States, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to 

 grant unto the said corporation the right to occupy and improve, for public purposes, 

 all or any portion of that lot or square of ground in the city of Washington, includ- 

 ing the Market space, lying between Seventh and Ninth streets west, and bounded 

 on the north by the south line of Pennsylvania avenue, and on the south by the 

 north line of B street north. And then, and in that case, there shall also be paid to 

 the corporation, towards the erection of the building, as provided in the first section 

 of this act, the sum of $35,000, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any money 

 in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the said sum of $35,000 is hereby 

 declared to be in full of the apartments and accommodations specified in the first 

 section of this act; and the said apartments and accommodations shall forever remain 

 subject to the occupation of the courts and their offices aforesaid. 



SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case of the execution, by the said corpo- 

 ration, of the bond and release aforesaid, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution 

 be, and they are hereby, authorized, by resolution of the board of regents, to retro- 

 cede to the United States that certain building site in the city of Washington, and in 

 the public reservation commonly called the Mall, which, according to the provisions 

 of the act organizing said Institution, approved August tenth, 1846, has become the 

 property of the said Institution; and upon proper evidence being adduced, to the sat- 

 isfaction of the President of the United States, of said retrocession, the President shall 

 be, and he is hereby, authorized to convey to the Smithsonian Institution, by metes 

 and bounds, so much of that public reservation in the city of Washington, commonly 

 called the Judiciary square, as lies south of the extension of the south line of E street 

 north, being the same lot or square on which the city hall now stands; and the said 

 conveyance by the President shall be received in evidence in all courts of the extent 

 and boundaries of the lot or square of land which, by virtue of this act, may become 

 the property of the said Smithsonian Institution. 



SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner of public buildings in the 

 city of Washington be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to provide tempo- 

 rary accommodations in some suitable building for the circuit court of the United 

 States for the county of Washington, and for its offices and records, until the tenth 

 day of March, 1848. And for the purpose of procuring said accommodations, the 

 sum of $1,000, or so much of the same as may be required for that object, be, and 

 the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated. 



Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. 



REPORT OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 March 2, 1847 Senate. 



Mr. SIDNEY BREESE presented a report of the Board of Regents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, made agreeably to law, showing the 

 operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution, which was 

 ordered to be printed. 



