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Pandit, Walter Kerr Waller, Esquire, M. D., Charles Henry Taioney, 

 Esquire, M. A., and Edward Oay, Esquire, M. A., Council. And Whereas 

 by Act XVII. of 1866, joassed by the Governor General 6£ India in Council 

 it was amongst other things enacted that the Governor General in Council 

 should cause to be erected at the expense of the Government of India a 

 suitable btiilding in Calcutta to be devoted in part to collections illustrative 

 of Indian Archaeology and of the several branches of Natural History, in 

 part to the preservation and exhibition of other objects of interest, whether 

 historical, physical, or economical, in part to the records and offices of the 

 Geological Survey of India and in part to the fit accommodation of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, and to the reception of their Library, Manu- 

 scripts, Maps, Coins, Busts, Pictures, Engravings, and other property. And 

 it was also enacted that the said Trustees should have the exclusive pos- 

 session, occupation, and control for the purposes of such trusts of the said 

 building, other than those portions thereof which upon its completion 

 should be set apart by the said Trustees for the records and offices of the 

 said Geological Survey and for the accommodation of the said Asiatie 

 Society and the reception of their Library, Manuscri]Dts, Maps, Coins, Busts, 

 Pictures, Engravings, and other property ; And it was also enacted that the 

 Coimcil of the said Asiatic Society should cause the collections belonging 

 to such Society, and illustrative of Indian Archaeology and the several 

 branches of Natural History, and all additions that might be made thereto, 

 to be removed to and deposited in the said building at the expense of the 

 Government of India as soon as the same should be completed as far to be 

 in condition to receive the said collections, and that the said Society should 

 continue to have the same exclusive right, property in, and control over their 

 Library, Manuscripts, Maps, Coins, Busts, Pictures, and Engravings which 

 they then possessed, and that the Council of the said Society should have the 

 exclusive jjossession, occupation, and control for the purposes of the said 

 Society, of those portions of the said building which should be set apart 

 for the accommodation of the said Society and the reception of their 

 Library and other property thereinbefore mentioned. And whereas in con- 

 sideration of a sum of Rupees one hundred and fifty thousand to be paid 

 to them by the Government of India the Council of the said Society has 

 agreed on behalf of the said Society to relinquish and give up all right to 

 the possession, occupation, and control secui'ed to them by the said Act of 

 the portions of the said building which xmder the said Act were to be set 

 apart for the accommodation of the said Society and the reception of their 

 said Library and other property. Noio this Indenture loiinesseth that in 

 pursuance of the said Agreement and in consideration of the sum of 

 Rupees one-hundred and fifty thousand at or before the execution of these 

 presents paid by the Secretary of State for India in Council to the parties 



