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" Paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the heirs-at-law or next of kin 

 or residuary legatee of the said James Smithson, or their authorized agents, 

 whenever they shall demand the same : Provided, That the Secretary of 

 the Treasury shall, in paying over said money as herein directed, deliver 

 to said heirs all State bonds or other stocks of every kind, which have been 

 purchased with said money or any part thereof, in lieu of so much of said 

 money as shall have been so invested in State bonds or other stocks, and the 

 balance of said sum of money, if any, not so invested, shall be paid out of 

 any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated." 



Mr. SIMS moved as an amendment to the amendment the 

 proposition of which he had given notice, (as a substitute 

 for the bill,) to provide for the return of the money. 



The CHAIRMAN decided the amendment out of order at 

 this time. 



Mr. EATHBUN moved to amend the amendment of Mr. 

 JONES, by striking out so much as relates to the restoring 

 to the heirs, &c., of Mr. Smithson, the bonds of the States, 

 (so that the money, and not the bonds, should be returned.) 



The amendment to the amendment was rejected. 



The question then recurring on the original amendment 

 of Mr. JONES, was taken by tellers, and decided in the neg- 

 ative ayes 8, noes 115. 



So the amendment was rejected. 



The question then being on rising and reporting the bill 

 as amended 



Mr. ADAMS, in compliance with previous notice, offered 

 the following substitute for the bill : 



Strike out the preamble, and all except the enacting 

 clause, and insert : 



" That the President of the United States be requested, by the use of 

 suitable means of moral suasion, and no others, to obtain from the govern- 

 ments of the States of Arkansas and Illinois payment of the arrears of 

 interest due from the said States to the United States, and the interest there- 

 after, and the principal as it shall become due, according to the promises on 

 the face of the bonds given by the said States for moneys bequeathed by 

 James Smithson, a benevolent Englishman, to the U nited States of America, 

 for the special purpose of founding at the city of Washington an institu- 

 tion for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men, which bequest 

 was, by an act of Congress, approved on the first of July, 1836, accepted, 

 with a pledge of the faith of the United States that it should be applied to 

 the purposes prescribed by the testator. 



" SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when payment shall have been 

 obtained from the said States of Arkansas and Illinois of the arrears of 

 interest due on their said bonds, Congress shall forthwith proceed to appro- 

 priate said sums of interest so recovered, together with the interest hitherto 

 received, or hereafter to be received, until the time of making such appro- 

 priations, in such manner as they shall deem suited to redeem the pledge of 

 the faith of the United States, to the application of the funds of the bequest 

 of the said James Smithson, to the specific purpose prescribed by the tes- 

 tator. 



" SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That until the arrears of interest due 

 by the said States of Arkansas and Illinois to the United States, upon their 

 said respective bonds, shall have been received at the Treasury of the United 



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