The Smithsonian Institution: 1835-1887 (twenty-fourth Congress to forty-ninth Congress)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 |
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... question , therefore , will be raised as to whether a bequest can be sustained after a limitation to illegitimate ... questions may arise connected with public charities , the rules respecting which are considered applicable to this case ...
... question , therefore , will be raised as to whether a bequest can be sustained after a limitation to illegitimate ... questions may arise connected with public charities , the rules respecting which are considered applicable to this case ...
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... question as trustees for the intended charitable institution to be founded at Washington . It might be a question of much doubt and difficulty whether it would be within the competency of the Government of the United States to ...
... question as trustees for the intended charitable institution to be founded at Washington . It might be a question of much doubt and difficulty whether it would be within the competency of the Government of the United States to ...
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... question whether they had the power to estab- lish a national university or not . There was no question but that James Smithson , in his lifetime , had a right to establish a university at the city of Washington , and to call it the ...
... question whether they had the power to estab- lish a national university or not . There was no question but that James Smithson , in his lifetime , had a right to establish a university at the city of Washington , and to call it the ...
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... question involved in this was also involved in the incorporation of institutions which had been incorporated by them in this District . The only question now under consideration was whether they should receive this money . He would vote ...
... question involved in this was also involved in the incorporation of institutions which had been incorporated by them in this District . The only question now under consideration was whether they should receive this money . He would vote ...
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... question whether we have the power to establish a university or not was a subject of consideration at an early stage of our Govern- ment , and President Washington decided that Congress had the power . But the question was voted down ...
... question whether we have the power to establish a university or not was a subject of consideration at an early stage of our Govern- ment , and President Washington decided that Congress had the power . But the question was voted down ...
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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...