20 U.S.C. § 55 — Acceptance of other sums

This section lets the Smithsonian add more money to its original Treasury fund, up to a cap, without limiting its other fundraising. The Secretary of the Treasury must accept into the Treasury, on the same terms as James Smithson's original bequest, any additional sums that the Smithsonian's Board of Regents chooses to deposit over time. But the total, the new deposits plus the original bequest, cannot go over $1,000,000. This limit does not restrict the Smithsonian Institution's separate power to accept money or other property through gifts, bequests, or devises (gifts made in a will), and to hold and use that property to promote the Institution's purposes.