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shall be at all times offered for sale at the lowest rate that will repay the 

 actual expense of publication. 



SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said board of managers shall 

 also make rules and regulations for the admission of students into the vari- 

 ous departments of the institution, and their conduct and deportment while 

 they remain therein : Provided, That all instruction in said institution shall 

 be gratuitous to those students who conform to such rules and regulations. 



SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be competent for the 

 board of managers to cause to be printed and published periodically or 

 occasionally essays, pamphlets, magazines, or other brief works or produc- 

 tions for the dissemination of information among the people, especially 

 works in popular form on agriculture and its latest improvements, on the 

 sciences and the aid the}' bring to labor, manuals explanatory of the best 

 systems of common school instruction, and generally tracts illustrative of 

 objects of elementary science and the rudiments of history; chemistry, 

 astronomy, or any other department of useful knowledge; also, they may 

 prepare sets of illustrations, specimens, and apparatus, suited lor primary 

 schools : Provided, That the same shall at all times be offered for sale at tin- 

 lowest rate that will repay the actual expense of preparation or publication. 



SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That of any other moneys which have 

 accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, as interest upon the said Smithsonian 

 fund, not herein appropriated, or not required for the purposes herein pro- 

 vided, the said managers are hereby authorized to make such disposal as 

 they shall deem best suited for the promotion of tin- purposes of the testa- 

 tor, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 



SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That and Joseph G. 



Totten and Alexander Dallas Bache, members of the National Institute, 

 and resident in the city of Washington, be the seven managers who, by the 

 second section of this act, are to be appointed by Congress. 



SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That there is reserved to Congress 

 the right of altering, amending, adding to, or repealing any of the provi- 

 sions of this act : Provided, That no contract, or individual right, made or 

 acquired under such provisions, shall be thereby divested or impaired. 



The amendment agreed to by your committee, and which 

 they recommend for adoption to the House, is to strike out 

 all after the preamble, and insert the following substitute : 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the property of 

 the said James Smithson as has been received in money and paid into the 

 Treasury of the United States, being the sum of five hundred- and fifteen 

 thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars, be lent to the United States 

 Treasury, at six per cent, per annum interest, from the first day of September, 

 in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, when the same was 

 received into the said Treasury ; and that so much of the interest as may 

 have accrued on said sum on the first day of July next, which will amount 

 to the sum of two hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and twenty- 

 nine dollars, or so much thereof as shall by the board of managers of the 

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

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

 preparing of suitable grounds, and for other current incidental expenses of 

 the 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 support of 

 said institution ; and all expenditures and appropriations to be made, from 

 time to time, to the purposes of the institution aforesaid, shall be exclusively 



