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The following is the Act : — 



ACT NO. XXII OF 1876. 



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Passed by the Goveeitoii Ge:n'ebal of Ikdia in CorNciL. 

 (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 11 th of 

 JDecemler 1876.) 

 An Act to provide for the management of the Public Museum at Calcutta. 

 WHEEEAS, by Act No. XVII of 1866, reciting that it was expedient 

 to provide for establishment of a Public Museum at Calcutta, to be called 

 the Indian Museum, it was enacted that the Governor G-eneral in Council 

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

 suitable building in Calcutta, to be devoted in part to collections illustra- 

 tive 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, manuscripts, 

 maps, coins, busts, pictures, engravings and other property ; and it was also 

 enacted that the Government of India should keep the said building in 

 repair and pay and defray the salaries, allowances and pensions of the 

 officers and servants, and all other expenses connected with the said Mu- 

 seum ; and by the Act now in recital certain officials and other persons 

 therein mentioned or referred to, to the number of thirteen, and their suc- 

 cessors, were constituted a Body Corporate by the name of the Trustees of 

 the Indian Museum, and the said Trustees were empowered to receive be- 

 quests, donations and subscriptions, and to deal with the same in the manner 

 therein mentioned for the purposes of their trusts therein mentioned ; and 

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

 sion, 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 Asiatic 

 Society and the reception of their library, manuscripts, maps, coins, busts, 

 pictures, engravings and other property ; and it was also enacted that all 

 officers and servants, salaried or otherwise, employed in the care or manage- 

 ment of the trust-property, should be appointed, and might be removed or 

 suspended, by the said Trustees, subject to such regulations and conditions 

 as the said Trustees should think proper ; and it was also enacted that the 

 Council 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 so far as to be 



