An act to authorize and enable the President to assert and prosecute with effect, the claim of the United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.

An act to authorize and enable the President to assert and prosecute with effect, the claim of the United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.

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An act to authorize and enable the President to assert and prosecute with effect, the claim of the United States to the legacy bequeathed to them by James Smithson, late of London, deceased, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.

Author/Creator:

24th Congress, Sess. 1, 1836.

05 Stat. 64 (1836); ch, 252 (Book)

Statutes at Large

Enables the President to appoint an agent to prosecute the claim of the right of the United States to the legacy of James Smithson. Any sums of money received on account of the legacy shall be applied to the purpose of founding and endowing at Washington the Smithsonian Institution. The President is authorized to apply a sum not exceeding $10,000 for that purpose.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856

Short Legal Citation:

Title 20, Education

Physical_Description:

Number of pages: 1; Page Numbers: 64

Smithson, James, 1765-1829.

Smithson Bequest

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