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small expenditure to afford so much gratification to our 

 people. 



SENATE, July 25, 1854. 



The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate a letter of 

 the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting 

 the annual report of the Board of Regents, which, on mo- 

 tion of Mr. Pearee, was ordered to be printed ; and a motion 

 by Mr. Rusk to print 10,000 additional copies was referred 

 to the Committee on Printing. 



SENATE, July 28, 1854. 



Mr. JOHNSON, from the Committee on Printing, to whom 

 was referred a motion to print additional copies of the 

 eighth annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, reported the following resolution ; which 

 was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to : 



Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand 

 -extra copies of the eighth annual report of the Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, five hundred of such copies to be given to the Secretary of 

 the Smithsonian Institution for its use. 



PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 14, 1853. 



The SPEAKER appointed Messrs. James Meacham, of Ver- 

 mont, Wm. H. English, of Indiana, and David Stuart, of 

 Michigan, Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, January 3, 1854. 

 Mr. CHANDLER ottered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That a select committee, consisting of nine members, be ap- 

 pointed, and instructed to inquire into the expediency of withdrawing from 

 the Treasury of the United States the Smithsonian fund, and investing the 

 ame in sound stocks, or in such other way as may be to the interest of said 

 fund. 



Mr. CHANDLER. This money is lying in the Treasury of 

 the United States, and the Government has to pay for the 

 use of it, when it is buying up its own stock at a large pre- 

 mium. It is, therefore, desirable to place the fund in some 

 other situation. 



Mr. JONES, of Tennessee. I desire to make one inquiry 

 of the gentleman, and it is, whether there is any certainty 

 that a method can be devised by which he can so invest this 

 money in stocks, or in any other way, that, provided it 



