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list shall be made, to be approved by the Government. Provision to 

 be made for full and free access by the public at all reasonable times 

 to the Serials and Transactions referred to. 



3. The opinion of the Librarian of the British Museum shall be 

 taken as to any earlier editions of modern books, or duplicates, which 

 in his judgment are not required for the National Library : and such 

 books shall be re-transferred to the Eoyal Dublin Society. 



4. The Society in future to provide its own staff of officers and its 

 own printing. But the Grovernment will authorize the Stationery 

 Office to contiaue to print the Proceedings and Transactions of the 

 Society — limiting them strictly to its Scientific work — for a period of 

 five years from the date of the transfer of the collections, with the 

 view of assisting the Society to re-organize itself on an independent 

 basis. 



5. The Lecture Hall, Laboratory, and the necessary offices to be 

 reserved to the Society, or an equivalent provided. 



6. The existing privileges of passing through Leinster Lawn and 

 the Court Yard of Leinster House to be reserved to Members of the 

 Society. 



7. Subject to the consent of the Director, the collections in the 

 botanical Gardens and the Natural History Museum to be available, 

 as heretofore, in illustration of the papers read before the Society. 



8. Members who have joined the Society before the 1st of Janu- 

 ary, 1878, to be allowed to borrow books as at present from the 

 Library, subject to regulations to be laid down by the Librarian, and 

 to have free admittance to the Museum at all times at which it is 

 open to the public. 



9. The Government will either allow the Agricultural Shows of 

 the Society to be continued in Kildare-street, affording equal facilities 

 to those enjoyed at present, or provide, either by Grant or by lands 

 and buildings, for a transfer of the Shows to some other convenient 

 place. The Government will inform the Society, as soon as possible, 

 whether the Shows will be left where they are, or removed. 



10. If such transfer is effected, account shall be taken of any loss 

 the Society may be subjected to by reason of the removal of the Shows 

 from the centre of the City to the Suburbs, or by discontinuance of the 

 aid given in the maintenance of the buildings, and the Government 

 will ask for Yotes accordingly. 



