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the Society. In the course of these negotiations 

 another agreement was entered into with the Govern- 

 ment in 1879, the terms of which were shortly as 

 follows : 



1. In consideration of a sum of £25,000, the 

 Government was to be discharged from all claims 

 under clauses 9 and 10 of the agreement of the 5th 

 of March 1877. 



2. The Royal Dublin Society was to retain the 

 right to office accommodation for its functions in agri- 

 culture, provided that if amalgamated with any other 

 society, such amalgamation was not to entitle the other 

 society to any right of occupation in Leinster House. 



3. The rooms indicated on a certain plan to be 

 those appropriated to the Society. 



4. The Society to have the use, but not the exclu- 

 sive use, of the entrance hall and passages. 



5. Appropriation of the rooms was to be liable 

 to revision by the Committee of the Council on 

 Education, when the new Science and Art Museum 

 was built. 



6. The agricultural shows were to be removed 

 from Kildare street, within a year from the payment 

 of the first instalment of £10,000. 



7. All strictly scientific Proceedings and Transac- 

 tions of the Society were to be printed in as good a 

 style as those of the Royal Society, and 1000 copies 

 were to be furnished to the Society free of ex- 

 pense. 



