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port of the Smithson library may be considered as an approval by 
94 Sree the general policy adopted and the course pursued by 
the It wi 
to this point, and while the Institution will be relieved from a 2 
00. 
The propriety of making provision for the separate mainten- 
ance of “A x sar AT Feit of relieving the Smithson fund 
the burden imposed upon it in this way, will be evident when 
the fact is recalled that the plan of the present 4 reemp buil 
was adopted to accommodate the museum of the Wil ; 
page the care of which had been devolved upon the Institu- 
the “3k the law of Congress. But the Board of Regents, afte 
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DUL was completed, decided that the keeping of this mu- 
seum ought not to bed charge on the Smithson fund, and before 
assuming the care of it dates appropriation, at least equal. es 
