20 USC 54 - Sec. 54. Appropriation of interest
20 USC - U.S. Code - Title 20: Education (January 2004)
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So much of the property of James Smithson as has been received in money, and paid into the Treasury of the United States, being the sum of $541,379.63, shall be lent to the United States Treasury and invested in public debt securities with maturities requested by the Smithsonian Institution bearing interest at rates determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, based upon current market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities, and this interest is hereby appropriated for the perpetual maintenance and support of the Smithsonian Institution; and all expenditures and appropriations to be made, from time to time, to the purposes of the Institution shall be exclusively from the accruing interest, and not from the principal of the fund. All the moneys and stocks which have been, or may hereafter be, received into the Treasury of the United States, on account of the fund bequeathed by James Smithson, are hereby pledged to refund to the Treasury of the United States the sums hereby appropriated.
Codification R.S. Sec. 5590 derived from acts Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, Sec. 2, 9 Stat. 102; Feb. 5, 1867, ch. 34, Sec. 2, 14 Stat. 391. Amendments 1982 - Pub. L. 97-199 substituted "and invested in public debt securities with maturities requested by the Smithsonian Institution bearing interest at rates determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, based upon current market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities, and this interest is hereby" for ", at 6 per centum per annum interest; and 6 per centum interest on the trust-fund and residuary legacy received into the United States Treasury, payable in half-yearly payments, on the first of January and July in each year, is", substituted "purposes of the Institution" for "purposes of the institution", and substituted "are hereby pledged" for "are pledged". EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1982 AMENDMENT Section 2 of Pub. L. 97-199 provided that: "The amendment made by the first section [amending this section] shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982." Section Referred To In Other Sections This section is referred to in sections 57, 67 of this title; title 31 section 1305.
