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" That it be referred back to Council to report that, as to para- 

 graph 3, they do not recommend the Academy to accept that condi- 

 tion, unless the words, ' unless the Academy object to any particular 

 rule or regulation,' be added thereto." 



The proposer and seconder of the foregoing amendment, by permis- 

 sion of the Academy, having withdrawn it, the Report was adopted. 



It was moved by J. Kells Ingram, LL.D., seconded by Sir Robert 

 Kane, F. E. S., and Resolved unanimously — 



"That the Academy, accepting the conditions set forth in the 

 letter of Lord Sandon (of February 8, 1876), recently transmitted by 

 the Irish Government, undertakes to transfer its lluseum to the pro- 

 posed National Museum of Science and Art in Dublin, as soon as the 

 building may be ready to receive it ; and desires at the same time to 

 express its sense of the considerate manner in which Her Majesty's 

 Oovemment have met the views of the Academy." 



The Academy then adjourned. 



Feidat EvENnfG, Makch 16, 1877. 



(Stated Meeting.) 



Samttel Feegusox, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 On the proposition of the Chairman, 

 It was Resolved — 



" That Bye-law 4 of Chapter IX. be for the present suspended." — 

 Visitors were then admitted. 



The Secretary of the Council read the following letter from the 

 President : — 



''5, Meeeion-sqtjaee, Noeth, Dublin", 

 ''March, Uth 1877. 

 " Mt deae Ee. Ingeam, 



" I am compelled by the state of my health to ask you to 

 announce at the Stated Meeting that it is my desire to retire from the 

 office of President of the Academy, which I have always held to have 

 been the greatest honour of my public life. 



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