Last Will of James Smithson

​Should my said nephew, Henry James Hungerford marry, I empower him to make a jointure.

In the case of the death of my said nephew without leaving a child or children, or if the death of the child or children he may have had under the age of twenty one years, or intestate, I then bequeath the whole of my property subject to the annuity of one hundred pounds to John Fitall, and for the security and payment of which 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.

I think it proper here to state that all the money which will be standing in the French five per cents, at my death in the names of the father of my above-mentioned Nephew, Henry James Hungerford, and all that in my names, is the property of my said nephew being what he inherited from his father, or what I have laid up for him from the savings upon his income.