The Smithsonian Institution: 1835-1887 (twenty-fourth Congress to forty-ninth Congress)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 |
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... desire of my said Execu- tors to put my property under the management of the Court of Chancery . To John Fitall ... desires it , these sums of money be let remain in his hands at an Interest of five per cent . for five years after the ...
... desire of my said Execu- tors to put my property under the management of the Court of Chancery . To John Fitall ... desires it , these sums of money be let remain in his hands at an Interest of five per cent . for five years after the ...
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... desire and duty to keep you informed of what is going on , I hope it will not be inferred that there are relax- ations in either ; since it is very likely to happen , as has been the case since the date of my last letter , that whilst I ...
... desire and duty to keep you informed of what is going on , I hope it will not be inferred that there are relax- ations in either ; since it is very likely to happen , as has been the case since the date of my last letter , that whilst I ...
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... desire to take the bequest through any oversight in the court or Attorney - General , admitting either to be possible in a case of this pub- licity , but only if the laws of England would warrant in all respects an adjudication in their ...
... desire to take the bequest through any oversight in the court or Attorney - General , admitting either to be possible in a case of this pub- licity , but only if the laws of England would warrant in all respects an adjudication in their ...
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... desire for the speed- iest decision of the case that may be practicable consistently with justice to the United States , I make no apology for asking a reply to these inquiries at as early a day as may be convenient . I remain , your ...
... desire for the speed- iest decision of the case that may be practicable consistently with justice to the United States , I make no apology for asking a reply to these inquiries at as early a day as may be convenient . I remain , your ...
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... desire was to sell all the stock for cash , and immediately , that I might the sooner close the whole operation and get away , but such a course I soon found , on the best information and advice , would have been injudicious . To have ...
... desire was to sell all the stock for cash , and immediately , that I might the sooner close the whole operation and get away , but such a course I soon found , on the best information and advice , would have been injudicious . To have ...
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Page 276 - I mean stock to remain in this country, 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.
Page 570 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 429 - Institution", to be composed of the Vice President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and three Members of the Senate and three Members of the House of Representatives; together with six other persons, other than Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of Washington; and the other four shall be inhabitants of some State, but no two of them of the same State.
Page 413 - President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of "War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster General, the Attorney General, the Chief Justice, and the Commissioner of the Patent Office of the United States, and the Mayor of the city of Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices, and such other persons as they may elect honorary members...
Page xxi - Be it enacted by the Senate and Howe of Representatives of the United States of America in Congrexs axsanUed: SEC. 5579. That the President, the Vice-President, the Chief Justice, and the heads of Executive Departments are hereby constituted an establishment by the name of the Smithsonian Institution...
Page xxi - Britain, having by his last will and testament given 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...
Page 325 - That, in proportion as suitable arrangements can be made for their reception, all objects of art and of foreign and curious research, and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens, belonging, or hereafter to belong, to the United States, which may be in the city of Washington...
Page 349 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 540 - And the said regents shall make, from the interest of said fund, an appropriation, not exceeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, for the gradual formation of a library, composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge.
Page xxx - An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine...