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By deed of declaration of trust, dated 29th January, 1868, 

 the Natural History Society provided for the transfer to the 

 Owens College, as the future Trustee of the Museum on 

 behalf of the public and the professors and students of the 

 College, of the Society's collections and property, upon there 

 appearing, to the satisfaction of the interim commissioners 

 then appointed, sufficient ground for believdng that the 

 College would be effectually enlarged, placed upon a public 

 basis, and well housed in new buildings. When this satis- 

 faction should have been declared, the property was to be 

 vested in the College upon Trust for sale, and out of the 

 proceeds the sum of £1,500 was to be payable by the Trus- 

 tees of the enlarged College to Trustees to be appointed for 

 that purpose by the Council of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, on such conditions as shall be 

 agreed upon by the same Council and the Trustees of the 

 enlarged College (now called Governors) as will provide 

 for the application of the said sum of £1,500 in the 

 hands of the said Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society for the promotion of Natural History in Manchester. 

 The commissioners met on the 10th instant, and after 

 examining proposals received from the College for a tem- 

 porary exhibition of the Museum in the new College 

 buildings now in process of erection in Oxford Koad, 

 decided upon completing the arrangement with the College. 

 The Trustees of the College will therefore at once proceed 

 to endeavour to sell the Peter Street site, to be delivered up 

 in June, 1873, for money or for rent, as may seem best. In 

 the latter case it has been agreed between the Commis- 

 sioners and the College that the College shall pay over £60 

 per annum as interest at 4 per cent on £1,500 until the prin- 

 cipal shall have been paid over. It will be one of the first 

 duties of the new Council to take steps in respect to this 

 communication. 



