ceeding in cost twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), and fit the same up 

 with proper apartments for containing and exhibiting the specimens of 

 said museum. 



"Sec. 5. That the said Board are hereby authorized to receive and 

 procure, by donation or otherwise, specimens of natural history con- 

 nected with this State and elsewhere, and classify and arrange them in 

 proper divisions, and to take all such steps as may be necessary or 

 proper for preserving or adding to the same. 



"Sec. 6. That the said Board are authorized to make any arrange- 

 ments necessary for the procuring, as an addition to their collections, 

 the museum now attached or belonging to the College of Charleston; not, 

 however, purchasing the same. 



"Sec. 7. That the location of the said museum shall be in the city of 

 Charleston, in some suitable place to be procured by the said Board; and 

 it shall be open each day, at such hours and under such restinctions as 

 may be prescribed by said Borrd for the inspection, examination, and in- 

 struction, without chai'ge, of all visitors thereto. 



"In the Senate House, the third day of February, one thousand eight 

 hundred and eighty-two. 



J. D. KENNEDY, President of the Senate. 



J. C. SHEPPARD, Speaker House of Representatives. 



"Approved February 4th, A. D. 1882. 



JOHNSON HAGOOD, Governor." 



Nothing appears to have been done towards perfecting 

 the organization contemplated, and when it is noted that the 

 College was to have but one representative on the Board, and 

 that it would be impossible to hold a meeting at which the 

 Mayor and his appointees would not form a majority, it is not 

 to be wondered at that the Trustees were not over hasty in 

 promoting a scheme which (so far at least as the governing 

 Board was concerned) had certainly drifted far from the mark 

 aimed at in the memorial which they had signed, or aiding 

 those * 'interested in procuring [without cost] as an addition to 

 their collections, the Museum now attached or belonging to the 

 College of Charleston"! especially when in the language of 

 President Randolph *'the scientific collections constitute the 

 finest possession of the College. " (Report, June 13, 1904.) 



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