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or taking out specimens from it — subject to such modifications as 

 shall be made by the Trustees from time to time in communication 

 with the Council of the Asiatic Society. 



VI. — Suitable clauses to be introduced into the Act of Incorpora- 

 tion to provide for the restoration to the Asiatic Society of its con- 

 tributions to the Museum, if the Trust shall hereafter be dissolved ; 

 and for enabling the Society to mark by a special label its donations 

 to the Museum, and to keep a separate Catalogue of all specimens so 

 contributed by it. 



VII. — The Council understands it to be the intention of the Govern- 

 ment to endow and maintain the Museum on a scale suitable to the 

 importance of the object for which it is founded, and corresponding 

 with the great value of the contributions to be made to it by the 

 Society. 



VIII. — The locality suggested for the Museum, the site of the 

 present Small Cause Court, appears to the Council to be excellent. 



IX. — Regarding the name to be given to the Museum, the Council 

 would desire to abstain from offering any present opinion ; a decision 

 on this point is obviously not pressing. 



X. — Under the foregoing stipulations, the Council would recom- 

 mend to the Society to agree to the complete transfer of all its col- 

 lections to the new Museum ; the Library and Manuscripts, Pictures, 

 Busts, and other miscellaneous objects to be specified hereafter, to be 

 reserved by the Society. 



II. — Asiatic Society. 



XL — The Asiatic Society to remain constituted exactly as at pre- 

 sent, having the complete management and disposal of its own 

 affairs. 



XII. — The Council considers that the Society would be desirous of 

 receiving accommodation in juxta-position with the new Museum 

 building. 



XIII. — The house for the Society should provide a Meeting Room ; 

 an Ante-room ; a Library ; two Reading-rooms or Study Rooms ; a 

 Room for the Librarian and Clerks ; and other ordinary subsidiary 

 minor accommodation. 



5. There is only one point on which the Council would desire to 

 suggest to the Government any important modification of the pro- 

 posals that have been made in your letter. It has reference to the 



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