When any real property or rights or estates therein may be or may have been granted or conveyed or assigned or turned over as a gift by any person or municipality to the state of Minnesota to be owned, held, occupied, or used by the state in connection with the Capitol, or any state institution, or the grounds of the same or any of them, the governor shall issue in duplicate under the great seal of the state a certificate of acceptance and cause all the conditions of the gift to be performed and the property so given to be improved, maintained, and ornamented in the method and so far as the legislature may appropriate money therefor.
Minn. Stat. § 94.17
(6450) 1909 c 464 s 1