CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 



ers as may be required for the institution. He is to make 

 experiments to determine the utility and advantage of new 

 modes and instruments of culture, and whether new fruits, 

 plants, and vegetables may be cultivated to advantage in 

 the United States; and those which shall prove worthy of 

 adoption, shall be distributed among the people of the 

 Union. The superintendent to be paid siu-h salary as the 

 board may think proper; and the board may remove hid 

 and appoint another in his place, whenever the interest of 

 the institution may require it. The board is also to employ 

 competent persons to deliver lectures, or courses of lectures, 

 in the institution, upon literature, science, and art. and on 

 the application of science to art, (luring the sessions of 

 Congress, commencing next session; to make regulations 

 respecting attendance thereon; to iix the rules of compen- 

 sation therefor; and to prescribe, from time to time, the 

 subjects of lectures, having regard to the character of the 

 audience before whom they are delivered, and the intent of 

 the donor the increase and diilusion of knowledge among 

 men: Provided the entire expenditure for lectures shall 

 not exceed $5,000 a year. The managers may, at their dis- 

 cretion, cause these lectures, or such of them as they desire, 

 to be printed and sold at the cost of publication, An 

 annual expenditure of not less than 20,000 out of the 

 interest of the fund is authorized to be made in the pur- 

 chase of books and manuscripts for the library of the insti- 

 tion, which library is to comprehend in due proportion, 

 without preference or exclusion of any branch of knowl- 

 edge, works pertaining to all the departments of human 

 knowledge, as well as physical science, and the application 

 of science to the arts of life, as all other science, philoso- 

 phy, history, literature, and art ; and for its extent, variety, 

 and value, said, library shall be worthy of the donor of the 

 fund, and of this nation and the age. The managers to 

 employ a librarian and assistants, and to fix their salaries; 

 .also to prescribe the regulations under which the library 

 shall be kept, visited and used. In conclusion, the bill 

 appoints the seven managers not ex qfficio members, as fol- 

 lows : 



Jared P. Kirtland of Ohio, Richard Henry Wilde of Lou- 

 isiana, George Tucker of Virginia, George Bancroft oi 

 Massachusetts, Henry King of Missouri, and Joseph G. Tot- 

 ten and Alexander Dallas Bache, members of the National 

 Institute, and resident in Washington, as the seven mem- 

 bers who, by the second section^ would be appointed by 

 Congress. The right of altering, amending, adding to, or 



