---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 276bb"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "276bb"
heading: "Acceptance of funds and property from Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt; purpose and use; disbursement and investment of fund"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/276bb"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter III — Kermit Roosevelt Fund"
---

# §276bb. Acceptance of funds and property from Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt; purpose and use; disbursement and investment of fund


The [board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) is authorized to accept from Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt such money and property as she may tender, to receipt therefor on behalf of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), and to deposit the [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) so received in the Treasury of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) as the original corpus of a trust [fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), to be known as the Kermit Roosevelt [fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), which shall be used for the purpose of fostering a better understanding and a closer relationship between the military forces of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and those of the United Kingdom by sponsoring lectures or courses of instruction to be delivered by officers of the British Army at the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Military Academy and elsewhere in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and by officers of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Army at Sandhurst Royal Military College and elsewhere in the United Kingdom or, should such exchange lectures prove or become impracticable or unnecessary for any reason, by such other application of the [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) as the [board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4), with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Army may determine. The original corpus of the [fund](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) and the income therefrom may be disbursed at the discretion of the [board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) in furtherance of the stated purpose, and shall be subject to investment and reinvestment as provided in [section 276cc of this title](/usc/22/276cc.md).


## Source credit

(July 2, 1945, ch. 228, § 2, 59 Stat. 316; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 225 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.