members of the said Committee should be incorporated 



as a Board of Trustees. Be it enacted by His Excel- 



lenc}'' the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, with 



the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and 



House of Assembly thereof, as follows : — 



Board of Trustees ap- I. A Board of Trustees com 

 pointed. 



posed as herein after mentioned, 

 shall be and is hereby constituted 

 a body politic and corporate by the name of " The 

 Trustees of the South African Museum " by which 

 name such body corporate shall have perpetual suc- 

 cession, and shall have a common seal, and shall by 

 the same name, from time to time sued and be sued, 

 implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered 

 unto, in all Courts of the said Colony, and shall be 

 able and capable, in law, to take, purchase, and hold 

 to them and their successors all goods, chattels, and 

 personal property whatever, either now deposited 

 within the precincts of the South African Museum, or 

 hereafter to be acquired by gift, bequest, purchase, or 



To bold fixed and other exchange and shall also be able 

 property. 



and capable in law to take, pur- 

 chase and hold to them and their successors, not 

 only such lands, buildings and possessions as may 

 from time to time be exclusively used and oc- 

 cupied for the immediate requirements of the said 

 " South African Museum, " but also any other lands 

 buildings, and possessions whatever, situated in 

 the said Colony or elsewhere ; and they and their 



