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33 Victoria, No. 357. 



AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE INCORPORATION AND GOVERN- 

 MENT OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, AND NATIONAL 

 GALLERY OF VICTORIA. [29th December 1869] 



BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria 

 in this present Parliament assembled by the authority of the same as 

 follows : 



1. This Act shall be called and may be cited as the "Library, Museums, 

 and National Gallery Act." 



2. For the government of the Public Library Museums and National 

 Gallery of Victoria there shall not be less than fifteen Trustees, who shall from 

 time to time be appointed and removed by the Governor in Council : Provided 

 that the present Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library shall be appointed 

 under this Act. 



3. The Trustees so appointed under the provisions and for the purposes 

 of this Act shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of the " Trustees 

 of the Public Library Museum and National Gallery of Victoria," and shall 

 by that name have perpetual succession, and shall adopt and have a common 

 seal, and shall by the same name sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, 

 answer and be answered unto, in all courts and places whatsoever, and shall have 

 power to compound or to prove in any competent court all debts due to them. 



1. From and after passing of this Act all the parcels of land described 

 in the schedule hereunto annexed and now vested in the Trustees of the 

 Melbourne Public Library shall be vested in the Trustees under this Act and 

 such Trustees shall have power and be capable in law to take purchase and 

 hold lands tenements and hereditaments of all kinds whatsoever and whereso- 

 ever situate and as regards all such lands tenements and hereditaments not 

 included in such schedule shall have power and be capable in law to sell 

 exchange grant demise let or otherwise dispose of the same or any part 

 thereof: Provided that it shall not be lawful for the Trustees so to alienate 

 or otherwise dispose of such lands tenements or hereditaments unless with the 

 approval of the Governor in Council nor to demise or let any part thereof 

 except by lease for any term not exceeding ten years from the time when such 

 lease shall be executed, by which there shall be reserved during the term the 

 highest rent which can be obtained for the same without fine. 



5. From and after the passing of this Act all the books works of art 

 goods chattels and effects now in the possession . of the Trustees of the 

 Melbourne Public Library and the industrial collections now in the buildings 

 known as the Exhibition buildings, and the books works of art collection of 

 objects of natural history now in the building known as the National Museum 

 and all the goods chattels and effects therein save and except any the 

 property of the University of Melbourne and also any portion of such 

 collection which may be in the buildings of the University shall be vested in 

 the trustees under this Act but the said collection of objects of natural 

 history and all the goods chattels and effects last mentioned shall not be 

 removed from the National Museum without the consent of the Governor in 

 Council ; and the Trustees shall have power and be capable in law to hold the same 

 and to receive purchase and hold any other books works of art specimens 

 goods chattels and effects and with the approval of the Governor in Council 

 to sell exchange convert into money and deliver any part of the same and 

 to make donations of any part thereof. 



