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"My Lords are, therefore, prepared to accede to the suggestion of 

 the Eoyal Irish Academy, that the same course should he taken re- 

 specting the collection of the Academy as that which was adopted by 

 the Treasury with regard to that of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland. Their Lordships might not unreasonably have demurred to 

 placing the E,oyal Irish Academy in a similar position to the Society 

 of Antiquaries of Scotland, inasmuch as the collections of the latter 

 were all acquired by private funds, whereas a large proportion of 

 those of the Eoyal Irish Academy have been purchased out of funds 

 provided by Parliament ; but My Lords are willing to waive these con- 

 siderations, so as to consult, as far as possible, the wishes of the Eoyal 

 Irish Academy, and they propose to follow closely the precedent of 

 the Treasury minute of 1851, respecting the Scotch Society, only in- 

 troducing such modifications as are absolutely required by the different 

 circumstances of the two cases. 



*' My Lords, therefore, desire to call the attention of the Lords 

 Commissioners of the Treasury to the appended copy of a minute (in 

 which the necessary alterations are shown in red ink) as embodying 

 the conditions under which the Lords of the Committee of Council on 

 Education are of opinion that the proposals of the Eoyal Irish Academy 

 should be accepted. 



" On receipt of a resolution of the Academy accepting the con- 

 ditions appended, and undertaking to transfer their collections to the 

 new Science and Art Museum, as soon as the building is ready to 

 receive them, My Lords will be prepared to recommend to the Lords 

 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that the votes now taken 

 for the Eoyal Irish Academy shall be re-transferred to the Irish Govern- 

 ment, it being understood that the votes now taken for Museum pur- 

 poses by the Eoyal Irish Academy shall cease as soon as the Science 

 and Art Museum is ready to receive their collections. 



" I have, &c., 



" (Signed), Sandoit. 

 "The Seceetaey 



" To THE TkEASTJEY." 



" Conditions. 

 "1. The entire collection of antiquities, coins, and medals, be-. 



