100 Trustees, their Meetings^ 



CHAP. I. the subordinate officers, any scheme or pro* 

 miuee" 2 C ° m " P osa ^ f° r the better ordering or managing 

 the Museum, or any part of it ; as also any 

 complaint of neglect in the management 

 thereof, or of disobedience to the orders of 

 the General Meeting or Committee; and 

 give such directions therein as they shall 

 think proper; and if they shall judge it to 

 deserve the notice and consideration of a 

 General Meeting, they shall lay the same 

 before such Meeting. 



8. They are also to give leave of absence 

 to the officers, up6n application from the said 

 officers, and at such times as they shall think 

 proper ; provided that such leave of absence 

 do not exceed the space of thirty days in 

 one year, unless the case should appear to 

 be of such importance as necessarily to re- 

 quire longer absence : and the said leave is 

 not to be granted to more than three of the 

 officers at the same time, nor to so many 

 unless in cases of necessity ; it being under- 

 stood that there shall always remain one 

 officer at least of each department resident 

 in the house.* 



* By Slat. 26 Geo. IT. no officer's place can be 

 supplied by deputy, unless for occasional sickness or 



