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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. . PEGE 
5. To State of Arkansas bonds (6 per cent coupons) of $1,000 each, 
38 in number (Nos. 282-294, 359-373, 401-410), issued January 
1, 1838, to secure a loan from the Smithsonian fund, which 
bonds matured January 1, 1868, and now belong to the United 
RNS ge a Base se ee a a ee ee Tl $38, 000. 00 
6. To interest thereon, at 6 per cent per annum, from January 1, ; 
feat, wo danuary by leGe (20 yoars)....2./---.....2. 200220262 59, 280. 00 
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A statement showing the amount of bonds and interest accrued thereon to January 1, 1896, 
held by the United States against the State of Arkansas, disregarding all credits to which 
said State may be entitled on any account: 
1. State of Arkansas 6 per cent bonds (Nos.1-500) of $1,000 each, 
issued January 1, 1838; and matured October 26, 1861, to secure a 
loan from the Smithsonian fund, held in trust by the United 
States, which bonds were subsequently acquired and are now 
held by the United States in their own right, ..--.............- $500, 000. 00 
2. Interest on 366 of these bonds (Nos. 135-500), at 6 per cent per - 
annum, from July 1, 1842, to January 1, 1896 -..........:....... 1, 174, 860. 00 
3. Interest on 133 of these bonds (Nos. 1-133), at 6 per cent per annum, 
pero duly 1852.40 January 1, 1896. 0-02. soiscuenW-cccebecet 283, 290. 00 
4. Interest on 1 of these bonds (No. 134), at 6 per cent per annum, 
from July 1, 1852, to January 1, 1896, less $19.72................ 2, 590. 28 
5. Thirty-three State of Arkansas 6 per cent coupon bonds (Nos. 282- 
294, 359-373, 401-410) of $1,000 each, issued January 1, 1838, to 
secure a loan from the Smithsonian fund, which bonds matured 
January 1, 1868, and now belong to the United States in their 
CaS SESE Ds Ss ae ge Dont rc ae cee Se rae a eee See | 38, 000. 00 
6. Interest thereon from January 1, 1842, to January 1, 1896, at 6 per 
Bm IME Sti oben staal Sn. SG ye che Solind adhere = 2 123, 120. 00 
[An act approved April 29, 1898, made a final compromise and settle- 
ment between the United States and the State of Arkansas. The 
State to pay to the United States $160,572, thus cancelling all indebt- 
edness on the part of Arkansas for the bonds bought by the United 
States from the bequest of James Smithson. | 
April 14, 1896—House. 
SOCIOLOGICAL INSTITUTION. 
Mr. F. H. Wirson, of New York, intreduced bill (H. 8192): 
Whereas any person or number of persons may by his or their last wills and testa- 
ments, or otherwise, give a sum or sums of money or property to the United States 
of America to found, at Washington, or aid and support an establishment for the - 
increase and diffusion of sociological science among men, to be organized under this 
act, to be named and known as the ‘sociological institution;’’ and the United States 
of America may, by act of Congress, receive such sum or sums of money or such 
property and accept said trust or trusts for the faithful execution of all such trusts so 
received and accepted. 
Be it enacted, etc., That the President, the Vice-President, the Secretary of State, 
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the 
Postmaster-General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Attorney-General, the Com- 
missioner of Labor, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Commissioner 
of Education, and the Commissioner of the Patent Office, and such other persons ag 
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