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6. The majority of the Trustees for the time being at any general meeting 

 assembled shall have power from time to time to make repeal alter and re-enact 

 such rules and regulations as they think fit for the purpose of providing for 



(i) The conduct of their own proceedings : 



(n) The due management of the affairs of the corporation in its several 



departments : 

 (in) The admission or exclusion of the public or any individual to and 

 from the library museum and national gallery or any part thereof : 

 (iv) The conditions subject to which the reading of books or manuscripts 

 or making copies or extracts therefrom and the inspection of 

 objects in the museum and taking copies thereof or instruction 

 in the different schools of industry and art may be had and the 

 amount of fees to be demanded for such instruction and the 

 appropriation of such fees : and 

 (v) For the same effectual use of the books and exhibits for the 

 purposes of public education and enjoyment. 

 And all such rules and regulations shall be reduced to writing, and the common 

 seal of the corporation having been affixed thereto shall be submitted for the 

 approval of the Governor in Council and if approved they shall be published in 

 the Government Gazette. 



7. The Trustees shall on or before the thirty-first day of March in every 

 year report the proceedings of the corporation during the previous year to the 

 Chief Secretary, and such report shall contain a full account of the income 

 and expenditure of the corporation duly audited by the Commissioners of 

 Audit and a copy of such report and of all the rules and regulations approved 

 as aforesaid shall be laid in each year before Parliament. 



SCHEDULE. 



All that piece of land in Victoria, containing two acres three roods and sixteen 

 perches situated in the county of Bourke, parish of North Melbourne, City of Melbourne, 

 being part of section twenty-seven, commencing at the point of intersection of the 

 south-east side of La Trobe street with the south-west side of Russell street, bounded on 

 the north-west by La Trobe street, bearing south sixty-two degrees west, six chains ; on 

 the south-west by the Public Library reserve, bearing south twenty-eight degrees east, 

 four chains seventy-five links ; on the south-east by Little Lonsdale street, bearing north 

 sixty-two degrees east, six chains; and on the north-east by Russell street, bearing north 

 twenty-eight degrees west, four chains seventy-five links to the point of commencement. 



All that piece or parcel of land situate lying and being in the County of Bourke, 

 Parish of North Melbourne, in Victoria, and containing by admeasurement one acre 

 three roods and thirty-two perches, being part of section twenty-seven, commencing at 

 the north-west corner of said section and bounded on the north by La Trobe street, 

 bearing north sixty-two degrees east, four chains ; on the east by a line bearing south 

 twenty-eight degrees east, four chains seventy- five links ; on the south by Little Lonsdale 

 street, bearing south sixty-two degrees west, four chains j and on the west by Swanston 

 street, bearing north twenty-eight degrees west, four chains seventy-five links. 



In the same year The Copyright Act, No. 350 of 33 Victoria, was passed. 

 By Sections 16, 17, 18, which follow, privileges similar to those accorded by Act of 

 Parliament * in England to the British Museum, the Universities of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, and other Institutions, have been granted to the Public Library. 



"Section 16. That a printed copy of the whole of every Book which shall 

 be first published in Victoria after the passing of this Act, together with all 



* 5 & 6 Victoria, Cap. 45, 



