Title 20 — Education
Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries
§ 55. Acceptance of other sums
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to receive into the Treasury, on the same terms as the original bequest of James Smithson, such sums as the Regents may, from time to time, see fit to deposit, not exceeding, with the original bequest, the sum of $1,000,000. This shall not operate as a limitation on the power of the Smithsonian Institution to receive money or other property by gift, bequest, or devise, and to hold and dispose of the same in promotion of the purposes thereof.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
R.S. § 5591
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 55
R.S. § 5591
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 5591
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 5591 derived from act Feb. 5, 1867, ch. 34, § 1, 14 Stat. 391.
Amendments
1894—Act , made limitation on deposits into the Treasury inapplicable to receipt of gifts, bequests and devises and dispositions of money or other property.
Credits
1894 · 2 acts
- R.S. § 5591
- 1894Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36, 28 Stat. 41.
Show as published
(R.S. § 5591; Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36, 28 Stat. 41.)