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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 526 
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MADE BY BAKER-VAWTER CO.
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only to the order of authority from the Probate Court for Wayne County, Michigan.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to execute in the name and behalf of the Institution such renewal or renewals in whole or in part, of the note or notes originally necessary or advisable, and to pledge and assign as collateral security therefor all or any part of the collateral originally pledged by the Executors as security for their note.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution be and he is hereby authorized to execute and deliver in the name and behalf of the Smithsonian Institution any and all papers necessary to carry into effect the above resolutions.

On motion, the resolutions were adopted.

PROPOSITION TO MAKE A CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION OF THE SMITHSONIAN INCOME.

The Secretary stated that he had received a letter from the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, with reference to placing in the regular Congressional appropriations the annual interest of the Smithsonian Fund now in the United States Treasury. He could best give a statement of the matter by the correspondence, which follows:

House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations
Sixty-Seventh Congress,
Washington, D. C.

October 29, 1921.

Mr. C. D. Walcott,Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Walcott:

The Committee is making a study of the permanent annual appropriations, being those which occur automatically each year without action by Congress. I find among them one for the Smithsonian Institution for $60,000 which is the interest at 6% on the $1,000,000 deposited in the Treasury under the

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