870 RECORI^S OF TTTF AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



The first bod}' of Trustees eoiisistetl of the followinsf o-entlemen^-'* : — 



Official. 



The Chief Justice (Sir Alfred Stephen). 

 ,, Colonial Secretary (Honoura))le E. Deas Thomson) 

 „ Attorney General (Honourable John Hul)ert Plunkett) 

 ,. Colonial Treasurer (Honourable Campbell Drummoncl Riddell) 

 Autlitor-General (Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether) 

 Speaker. Les^islative Council (Sir Charles Nicholson) 

 Solicitor-General (Honourable William Montague Mannin^^) 

 ., Collector of Customs (Honourable John George Nathaniel <{iblies) 



Surveyor-General (Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell) 

 .. Colonial Architect (Edmund Thomas Blacket) 

 „ President Colonial Medical Board (James Mitchell, M.D.) 

 „ Crown Trustee (Honourable Henry Watson Parker) 



Elective. 



Arthur a' Beckett 



George Bennett, M.D. 



John Carne Bidwell 



William Branwhite Clarke, A.M., Clerk. 



Captain Phillip Parker King, R.N. 



Robert LethV>ridge King, A.B., Clerk 



William Macarthur 



George Macleay 



William Sharp Macleay 



John Smith, M.D. 



George Edward Turner, B.C.L.. Clerk 



George Witt, M.D. 



The Act was formally presented to the new " Body Corporate " by 

 the Colonial Secretary on 9tli Jul}', 1853, when tlie Trustees appointed a 

 Committee of the same three gentlemen (King, Macleay, and Witt) who 

 had previously acted, to : — 



" Draw out such rules and regulations as may be immediately required for 

 carrying into effect the provisions of the Act of Incorpoi'ation." 



The Report of this Committee was received bj- the Board, as it must 

 henceforth be called, on the ;-50th -Tuly, 1853, and the following were its 

 recommendations^-'"' : — 



" 1. That regular Meetings of the Trustees be held early in every month. 



" 2. That at every such meeting an account shall be presented and entered on 

 the Minutes of all expenses incurred iluring the preceding month 

 includuig all salaries and wages and the same when audited and fomid 

 correct shall Vie paid by cheque or cheques drawn on the Treasurer and 

 signed by not less than two Trustees. 



" 3. 'I'hat the Bank of New South Wales, Sydney, shall be appointed the 

 Treasurer to the Trustees. 



"4. That at every monthly meeting the pass-books from the Bank made uj) to 

 the day shall be laid on the table and the amount of the bahmce in hand 

 entered on tlie minutes of the day. 



" 5. That Vouchers for all jmyments made in accordance with the orders of 

 one monthly Board be presented for examination at each succeeding 

 meeting. 



'■'* Minutes, 1st January, 185.3 : Act of Incoporation. par. 

 ':'■■ Minutes, :{(tth July, 18.5;?. Document A. 10. ."iO^;? 



