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others, including salaries and all other general expenses con- 
nected with the same, excepting those of the first complete 
arrangement of all such collections and objects as now belong 
to the United States in the museum of the institution, when 
completed, together with one-half of the salary of the Secretary, 
the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.” 
The second and final clause of this resolution provided that 
the remainder of the annually accruing interest should be ap- 
plied to the other objects of the Institution, namely, researches, 
publications, lectures, etc. It should be noted here, however, 
that the proportional division of the income between the “two 
principal modes of executing the act and trust,” as above di- 
rected, was subsequently changed, and that later the Govern- 
ment began to provide for the expenses of the museum feature. 
During the year 1847, in accordance with the instructions of 
the Board of Regents, Secretary Joseph Henry prepared a 
Programme of Organization of the Smithsonian Institution, 
which was presented on December 8 and provisionally adopted 
on the 13th of the same month. This programme, divided into 
two sections, covered the entire scope of the proposed activities 
of the Institution. As explained by Secretary Henry : 
“The first section of the programme gives the details of the 
plan proposed for the increase and diffusion of knowledge by 
means of publications and original researches. The second 
section furnishes the details, so far as they can be made out at 
the present time, of the formation of a library, and a collection 
of objects of nature and art. These two plans combined, em- 
brace the general propositions adopted by the Board of Regents 
at their last meeting, as the basis of future operations. It is 
intended in the proposed plan to harmonize the two modes of 
increasing and diffusing knowledge, and to give to the institu- 
tion the widest influence compatible with its limited income. 
That all the propositions will meet with general approval can 
not be expected ; and that this organization is the best that could 
be devised is neither asserted nor believed. ... It is not in- 
tended that the details of the organization, as given in the pro- 
gramme, should be permanently adopted without careful trial; 
they are rather presented as suggestions to be adopted pro- 
visionally, and to be carried into operation gradually and 
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