 
 CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--CHARTER PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 55. Acceptance of other sums

    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.

(R.S. Sec. 5591; Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36, 28 Stat. 41.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5591 derived from act Feb. 5, 1867, ch. 34, Sec. 1, 14 
Stat. 391.


                               Amendments

    1894--Act Mar. 12, 1894, made limitation on deposits into the 
Treasury inapplicable to receipt of gifts, bequests and devises and 
dispositions of money or other property.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 57, 67 of this title.
