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TRUSTEES, THEIR MEETINGS, 



chap. i. its Orders and Proceedings to the next General 



Standing ° 



Committee. Meeting 1 . 



6. No business shall be transacted by the said 

 Committee unless Three Members of the said 

 Committee be present. 



7. The said Committee shall have power to affix 

 the Seal of the Corporation to any application to 

 Parliament for money, and to any other Document 

 which may require the Seal. 



8. They are also to inquire, as often as they 

 shall think fit, into the conduct of all the Officers 

 and Servants ; to receive any Scheme or Proposal 

 for the better ordering or managing the Museum, 

 or any part of it ; as also any complaint of neglect, 

 or of disobedience to the Orders of the General 

 Meeting or Committee ; and to give such direc- 

 tions therein as shall seem expedient. 



9. They are also to give to the Officers such 

 leave of absence as they shall think proper ; pro- 

 vided that such absence do not extend beyond the 

 space of six weeks in the year, to be taken 

 between the first of July and the thirty-first of 

 October inclusive ; unless for special reasons the 

 Committee should think it necessary to permit 

 a longer absence : provided also, that the Keeper 

 and Assistant Keeper of any one Department shall 

 not be absent at the same time ; and that two at 

 least of the five Keepers having apartments shall 

 at all times be resident in the Museum. The As- 

 sistant Keepers are, if required by the Committee, 

 to have their usual abode within one mile of the 

 Museum. 



