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tion (No. 7) concerning the legacy bequeathed by Mr. James 

 f London, to the United States. 



198 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



The total sum required for this institution would amount 



to $298,700. 



CHARLES LEWIS FLEISCHMANN, 



Graduate of the Royal Agricultural School of Barvaria, 



and a citizen of the United States. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 11, 1839. 

 A message from the Senate, that it had passed a resolu- 

 on (No. 7) c< 

 Smithson, of 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 12, 1839. 



The concurrent resolution from the Senate (No. 7) " con- 

 cerning the legacy bequeathed by Mr. James Smithson, of 

 London, to the United States, in trust, for an institution of 

 learning, to be established in the city of Washington;" was 

 read and concurred in by the House. 



Mr. John Quincy Adams, Mr. Smith, Mr. Ogle, Mr. Charles Shepard, 

 Mr. Holt, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Hunter of Ohio, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr. 

 Garland of Virginia, were appointed said committee. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 14, 1839. 

 On motion of Mr. KEIM, 



Resolved, (the Senate concurring therein.) That the joint committee on 

 the Smithsonian bequest be instructed to inquire into the propriety of es- 

 tablishing a professorship of the German Language, as a part of the literary 

 instruction in the intended Smithsonian Institute. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 26, 1839. 



Mr. John Quincy Adams, from the joint committee on the 

 Smithsonian bequest, reported the following resolutions, 

 viz : 



1. Resolved, That the sum of dollars, being the amount deposited 



in the Treasury of the United States, proceeding from the bequest of James 

 Smithson to the United States of America, for the purpose of establishing, 

 at the city of Washington, an institution to bear his name, for the increase 

 and diffusion of knowledge among men, together with what additional sum 

 or sums may hereafter accrue from the same bequest, and so much of the 

 interest as has become, or may become due on the first named principal sum, 



until the day of , ought to bo constituted a permanent fund, to be 



invested in a corporate body of trustees, to remain under the pledge of 

 faith of the United States, undiminished and unimpaired. 



2: Resolved, That the said fund ought so to be invested that the faith of 

 the United States shall be pledged for its preservation unimpaired, and for 

 its yielding an interest, or income, at the rate of six per cent, a year, to be 

 appropriated, from time to time, by Congress, to the declared purpose of 

 the founder ; and that all appropriations so made shall be exclusively from 

 the interest or income of the fund, and not from any part of the principal 

 thereof. 



3. Resolved, That the first appropriations from the interest, or income, of 

 the Smithsonian fund, ought to be for the erection and establishment, at 



