64 SMITHSONIAN BEQUEST. 



the current rate of exchange in the city of London, on the 

 8th day of March, 1838; and he found -that the income 

 arising from the said French stock or fund, called livres de 

 rentes, was payable and paid half-yearly by the French 

 Government, on or about the 22d day of March and the 

 22d day of September in each year; and he also found that 

 there was due and owing to the said Mary Ann de la Batut, 

 (or the said Theodore de la Batut, in her right,) from the 

 estate of the said testator, James Smithson, the sum of 

 13,427 francs 75 centimes, for arrears of the said annuity, 

 from the 22d day of September, 1834, to the 22d day of 

 March, 1838, amounting in value to 526 Us. <W., sterling 

 money of Great Britain and Ireland, calculated at the cur- 

 rent rate of exchange in the said city of London, as afore- 

 said ; and he found that the annual income or annuity to 

 which the said Mary Ann de la Batut (or the said Theodore 

 de la Batut, in her right) was entitled for her life out of the 

 estate of the said testator, James Smithson, amounting to 

 150 9s. sterling money of Great Britain and Ireland as 

 aforesaid. And whereas the above named plaintiff and 

 Kichard Rush did, on the 3d day of May, 1838, prefer their 

 petition unto the right honorable the master of the rolls, 

 setting forth as therein set forth, and praying that the resi- 

 due of the several stocks, funds, and securities, and cash, 

 respectively, standing in the name of the accountant general 

 of this court, in trust in the cause of Hungerford vs. Drum- 

 mond, and in trust in this cause, which should remain after 

 providing for and satisfying the annual and other payments 

 directed by the will of the said testator, and the costs and 

 charges to which the estate of the said testator had been 

 rendered liable by virtue of the several proceedings and 

 measures aforesaid, or any of them, might be respectively 

 transferred, (the amount thereof to be verified by affidavit,) 

 in the books of the governor and compan} 7 of the Bank of 

 England, and paid to the petitioner, Richard Rush ; and 

 that the boxes and packages mentioned in the said master's 

 report might be delivered into the custody of the petitioner, 

 Richard Rush. Whereupon all parties concerned were 

 ordered to attend his lordship on the matter of the said 

 petition, when this cause should come on to be heard for 

 further directions ; and this cause coming on this present 

 day to be heard before the right honorable the master of 

 the rolls for further directions on the said master's said 

 report, and as to the measure of costs reserved in the said 



