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The second section appropriates the accrued interest of the 
equest, or so much of it as may be required, for the erection of 
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. suitable paildinae and for current incidental expenses ; and funds 
the capital, for the perpetual maintenance of the Institution. 
he third section creates a‘Board of Regents to conduct the 
business of the Institution, fixes the mode of appointment of the 
elective members of the Board (the ex-officio Regents being the 
Vice President and the Chief Justice of the United States, and 
the Mayor of Washington), as well as their term o e, 
sane ie the Board to appoint a Secretary of the Institution, 
who is likewise to be the Secretary of the Board of Regents, 
Be the manner of transacting business, and requires an 
annual report to Congress 
he fourth section directs a building to be erected. 
The fifth relates to the site and character of the building ; and 
requires it to have “suitable rooms or halls for the reception and 
arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, 
including a mineralogical and geological cabinet ; also a chemical 
ae a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture- 
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The sixth section bestows upon the Institution objects of art 
and natural history belonging to the government. 
The seventh section enacts; “that the Secretary of the Board . 
of Regents shall take charge of the building and property of said 
Institution, and shall, under their direction make a fair and accu- 
rate record of all their proceedings, to be preserved in said Insti- 
tution; and the said Secretary shall also discharge the duties of , 
librarian and keeper of the museum, and may, with the consent 
of the Board of Regents, employ assistants ; re the said officers 
shall receive for their services such sums as may be allowed by 
the Board of Regents, to be paid semi- Sani on the first days 
of January and July; and the said officers shall be removable by 
the Board of Regents whenever, in their judgement, the interests 
of the Institution require any of the said officers to be ae = 
Section 8, enacts that the members and honorar 
the Institution (meaning thereby the establishment Saumaned 
y the first section) may hold stated and special meetings, “ for 
the supervision of the affairs of said Institution, and the advice 
and instruction of said Board of Regents ;” and continues :— 
“And the said Regents shall make, from the interest of said 
fund, an appropriation not exceeding an rast of $25,000 annu- 
ally, for the gradual formation of a libra y composed of valuable 
works pertaining to all departments of pate knowledge.” 
Section 9. “And be it further enacted; that of any other 
moneys which have “Saat or shall hereafter accrue, as interest 
upon the said Smithsonian fund, not herein appropriated, or not 
required for the purposes herein provided, the said managers are 
