FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, 1889-1891. 1533 
members ex officio. All vacancies in said board, whether by death, resignation, 
removal, or otherwise, shall be filled at the annual meetings of the same by the bal- 
lots of not less than a majority of the whole board, and all vacancies occurring in 
said board after the year 1900 shall be filled from the rolls of the alumni of said uni- 
versity. Any donor to said university who shall have contributed to the endow- 
ment funds of the same to the amount of $100,000 shall also be eligible as a member 
of said board. 
Src. 6. That in the management and control of said university no sectarian or anti- 
religious belief or doctrine shall be inculcated. 
Sec. 7. That whenever the permanent endowment funds of said university shall 
reach the sum of millions of dollars each State shall be entitled to send to said . 
university one properly prepared and accredited student for each of its Senators and 
Representatives in Congress, free of all charges, for instruction in any of its depart- 
_ments, said students to be appointed by the Senators and Representatives thereof 
under a system of competitive examinations; also any properly accredited alumnus 
of any college or university in the United States having a permanent endowment of 
not less than $100,000 shall be entitled to free tuition in any of the departments of 
said university; also, in order to promote the study of American institutions and the 
principles of a republican form of government as embodied in the Constitution of 
the United States, and to encourage reciprocity and fraternity among the Pan-Amer- 
ican republics, five perpetual free scholarships shall be tendered to each of said 
republics in said university. 
Src. 8. That the officers, instructors, and students of said university shall be admit- 
ted free of all charges to all libraries, museums, lectures, and other sources of 
information and instruction belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, the Naval 
Observatory, the Geological Bureau, Department of Education, and all other institu- 
tions owned and controlled by the Government of the United States, in the District 
of Columbia, for the advancement of knowledge and investigation in the arts and 
sciences, subject, in all cases of admission, to the rules and regulations prescribed by 
the managing authorities of said institutions or departments of the Government. In 
like manner all libraries, museums, lectures, apparatus and collections in art and 
science, and other facilities for knowledge and instruction shall be open and acces- 
sible in said university, free of charge, to the officials of all institutions or depart- 
ments of the Government, under the rules and regulations prescribed by the curators 
of the same. 
Sec. 9. That the curators of said university shall have power from time to time to 
receive donations or bequests for the establishment of fellowships, scholarships, 
prize funds, or other special endowments, subject always to the wishes and instruc- 
tions of the donors or testators. 
Sec. 10. That no person otherwise eligible for admission into said university shall 
be excluded from the benefits thereof on account of race, color, sex, citizenship, or 
religious belief. 
Src. 11. That Congress shall have power at all times to examine into the condition 
and operations of said university for the public good, to report on the same, and to 
amend or repeal this act at pleasure. 
Sec. 12. That in order to carry into effect this act the sum of $500,000 is hereby 
appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise 
appropriated, for the purchase of grounds and erection of buildings for said univer- 
sity; and the further sum of $1,000,000 is hereby appropriated annually for the 
period of ten years from the passage of this act, out of any moneys in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for the permanent endowment of said university, the 
said total sum of $10,000,000 to be invested in United States bonds drawing 4 per 
cent interest, payable quarterly to the curators of the said university. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
