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handle is hein.usccsset/usconset30933 and id is 1 raw text is: 58TH CONGRESS, SENATE. DOCUMENT 2d Session. INo. 121. AMERICAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE AT PARIS, FRANCE. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE, TRANSMITTING A LETTER, WITH INCLOSURES, IN REGARD TO THE INCORPO- RATION OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE (PRIX DE PARIS) AT PARIS, FRANCE. JANUARY 25, 1904.-Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, January 03, 1904. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a copy of a letter from Miss Matilda Smedley, with inclosures, looking to the incorporation of the American National Institute (Prix de Paris) at Paris, France. A bill for this purpose (S. 7368) was passed by the Senate on Feb- ruary 28, 1903, and I am informed was reported favorably to the House of Representatives, where it failed of consideration. In regard to this bill the Secretary of State, in a letter addressed to you, wrote: This Department has for a number of years taken much interest in the success of this movement, designed to establish in Paris a national institute for the study of art which will at the same time afford a home for young American men and women students, surrounding them with the wholesome influences and moral protection so desirable in a great capital. By referring to Senate Document No. 398, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, you will find the purposes of the institute fully explained and a gratifying showing of the progress made toward its accomplishment. It has received the cordial support of the municipal administration of Paris, which has generously offered a large and val- nable site on renewable lease at a nominal ground rent of 1 franc per annum for the construction of the buildings of the institute. That document (No. 398) gives plots of the 14 sites from which to make selection. While occupying temporary quarters during the past three years, the institute has shown its capacity for good, both in its educational and in its moral sense. It has enlisted sympathy in France as well as in the United States, and now holds impor- tant donations of money and valuable works of art toward its establishment and maintenance. A good working nucleus for the necessary collections of paintings, statuary and books already exists. Once set on a practical footing, with appropriate S D-58-2-Vol 4-1

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