FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1895-1897. 1763 
Sec. 8. That the regents shall make, from the interest of the fund, an appropria- 
tion, not exceeding an average of $25,000 annually, for the gradual formation of a 
library composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of sociological 
science. 
Sec. 9. That all laws for the protection of public property in the city of Washing- 
ton shall apply to and be in force for the protection of the property of the sociolog- 
ical institution. All moneys recovered by or accfuing to the institution shall be paid 
into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the sociologic al institution 
fund, and separately accounted for. 
Sec. 10. That sueh money and so much of such property as may be reed ved in 
money and paid into the Treasury of the United States shall be loaned to the United 
States Treasury at 4 per centum per annum interest; and 4 per centum interest on 
such trust funds received into the United States Treasury, payable in half-yearly pay- 
ments, on the first of January and July in each year, is hereby appropriated for the 
perpetual maintenance and support of the sociological institution; and all expendi- 
tures and appropriations to be made from time to time to the purposes of the institu- 
tion shall be exclusively from the accruing interest, and not from the a ial of 
the fund. 
_ Sec. 11. That whenever money is required for the payment of the debts or per- 
formance of the contracts of the institution, incurred or entered into in conformity 
with the provisions of this Act, or for making the purchases and executing the 
objects authorized by this Act, the board of regents, or the executive committee 
thereof, may certify to the chancellor and secretary of the board that such sum of 
money is required, whereupon they shall examine the same, and if they shall 
approve thereof shall certify the same to the proper officer of the Treasury for pay- 
ment. The board shall submit to Congress, at each session thereof, the report of 
the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution. 
Src. 12. That upon the election or appointment of a secretary of the sociological 
institution, the authorized custodian of the Congressional Library building in Wash- 
ington shall set apart and allot, for the exclusive use of the board of regents and 
other officials and assistants of the sociological institution and for the proper trans- 
action of its business, suitable apartments and space in the new Congressional 
Library building, to be occupied and used by them so long as the requirements of 
the Congressional Library and its service may permit, free of charge and without: 
payment of rent therefor. : 
Src. 13. That Congress may alter, amend, add to, or repeal any of the provisions 
of this Act; but no contract or individual right made or acquired under such provi- 
sions shall be thereby divested or impaired. 
Referred to Committee on Education. 
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA AND SOCIETY OF 
COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA. 
May 4, 1896—House. 
Mr. H. C. Brewster introduced bill (H. 8673), to incorporate the 
National Society of Colonial Dames of America. 
Referred to Committee on the Library. 
May 7, 1896—Senate. ; 
Mr. H. C. Lopes introduced bill (S. 3087). 
Referred to Committee on the Library 
May 14, 1896—Senate. 
Mr. G. P. WermorE paper’ S. 3087. 
