102 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 178. 1846. Invalid pm To pay invalid pensions, thirty-two thousand three hundred and sions. thirty-five dollars and forty cents. Pension of To pay the pensions of widows of officcrs, seamen, and marines, widows. twelve thousand dollars. Armovun, August 10, 1846. _ _ C .CLXXVIII.—.d At lo mablisl the **Smi¢h:oni4m Inxum ‘ ," gu,
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Preamble. James Smithson, Esquire, of London, in the Kingdom of Gym Britain, having by his lastlwill and testamenngiven the whole of his property to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the “Smithsonian Institution," an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men; and the United States having, by an act of Congress, received said property and accepted said trust; therefore, for the faithful execution of said trust, according to the will of the liberal and enlightened donor- Be it waged by the Senate and House of Representatives qf _ _ the Mzitcd lates of America in Congress assembled That the 8§{:;2;;°“‘::t§;: President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretary lished. of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretery of the Navy, the Postmaster-Genera], the Attorney-General, the. Chief Justice, and the Commissioner of the Patent Office of the United States, and the Mayor of the city of Washingt0n_, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices, and such other persons as they may elect honorary members be and they are hereby Y constituted, an "estabIishment," by the name of the “Smithsonian I\¤¤¤¤· Instrtution," for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men; and by that name shall be known and have perpetual suceesswn, with the powers, hmrtatnons, and restrxotrons hereinafter contamed and no other ’ , A'”°'"‘° '°' Sue 2 And b ' · dl tt U_ . _. e at further enacted, That so much of the property s?ld;¤¤:;·,p?six of the smd James Smithson as has been received in money, and paid
f::n:*é;¤;°;· mto the treasury of the United States, being the sum of five hundred
1g5B_ P ’ and Hfieen thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars, be lent to the United States treasury, at six per cent. per annum interest, from the first dav of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, when the same was received into the said treasury; lawns? t 3c- and aha; S0 511110};- elif the interest as may have accrued on said Sum cm °¤ S ¤- on the rst ay o uly next which will amount to the sum of two g,°r;:?:t;% :):3 hundred and forty-two thousdnd one hundred and twenty-nine d011B1S, erecuou of build- or so much thereof as shall by the board of regents of the institution Qggdcm °u;‘; CSi3b1I5h6d by this act be deemed necessary, be, and the Sami! is penn;. hereby, appropriated for the erection of suitable buildings, and for other eurrent mendentzd expenses of said institution; and that six per _ Interest acm;- cent. interest on the said trust fund, it being the said amount of five
- 8 hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars, rc-
{grlghe perpetual 0C1V8d IIICQ the United States treasury on the first of Séptémbfbf, (me gnlzpugepansfg Eg thousand exght hundred and thirty-eight, payable, in halflycafly P¤)’· m£gumm_ f¤€T1fS, on the firstof J anunry and July in each year, be, and the Samv whereby, approprrated for the perpetual maintenance and support of pad urstntutron; and all expenditures and appropriations to. be made, rom trme to time, to the purposes of the institution aforesmd, shall be 0X0i\lSlv8] from the aeeruin` l al of All mom sand _ Y g mterest, and not from the prmcip gtocks regeived thé Sud fl}nd· And 58 fuTth€T C1laL't€d, the moneys and of the bequest stocks which have been, or may hereafter be, received into the trea-
