60 Neiv Indian Museum Act. [Feb. 



JPoivers of the Trustees. 



6. It shall be lawful for the said Trustees («) to receive bequests, 

 donations and subscriptions of land, buildings, money and any such objects 

 of interest as aforesaid, and {h) to hold the same and to lay out such money 

 for the maintenance, improvement and enlargement of the collections depo- 

 sited in, presented to, or purchased for, the said Indian Museum, and other- 

 wise for the purposes of the same Museum ; 



and all such collections shall become the property of the said Trustees 

 for the purposes of their trusts herein mentioned ; 



and the said Trustees shall have the exclusive possession, occupation 

 and control, for the purposes of such trusts, of the whole of the said buil- 

 ding, other than those portions thereof which have been set apart by the 

 said Trustees for the records and offices of the Geological Survey of India. 



7. The said Trustees may from time to time make bye-laws consis- 

 tent with this Act — 



(«) for the management of the said Museum ; 



(b) for the summoning, holding and adjournment of general and 

 special meetings of the said Trustees ; 



(c) for securing their attendance at such meetings ; 



(d) for the provision and keeping of minute-books and account- 

 books ; 



(e) for the compiling of catalogues, and 



{f) for all other purposes necessary for the execution of their trusts. 



8. Subject to such regulations and conditions as the Trustees think 

 fit, they shall appoint, and may remove or suspend, all officers and servants, 

 salaried or otherwise, employed in the care or management of the trust- 

 property : provided — 



(a) that no officer be appointed without the approval of the Gover- 

 nor General in Council if such officer be, at the date of his appointment, in 

 India, or without the approval of the Secretary of State for India in Coun- 

 cil if such officer be not then in India ; 



(b) that no new office be created, and no salaries of officers be altered, 

 without the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council. 



9. The said Trustees may from time to time order any duplicates of 

 printed books, medals, coins, specimens of Natural History or other curio- 

 sities deposited in the Indian Museum to be exchanged for manuscripts, 

 books or other objects of interest, or direct any such duplicates to be sold 

 and the money to arise from such sale to be laid out in the purchase of 

 manuscripts, books, maps, medals, coins, specimens of Natural History or 

 other curiosities that may be proper for the said Museum. 



10. At all mee'tings of the said Trustees three shall be a quorum for 

 the transaction of business and for the exercise of any of the powers con- 

 ferred upon them by this Act. 



