Whenever any gift or donation of money to the Department of Archives and History is in an amount not exceeding $100.00 or whenever the donor thereof, regardless of the amount of the gift, requests that such gift be used for a specified purpose and such purpose is a purpose approved by the board of trustees of such department and whenever the donor designates the gift as a memorial gift, such money shall be deposited in the State Treasury in a special fund designated "Memorial Fund - Department of Archives and History," which fund is hereby established.