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ing of the Standing Committee, and to 

 take care that orders for payment are 

 duly made upon the Paymaster-Greneral ; 

 to conduct the correspondence of the 

 Trustees ; to issue all summonses ; to 

 notify to the Principal Trustees the 

 vacancies which may occur in the estab- 

 lishment ; and also to take the chief 

 charge of all records and other docu- 

 ments connected with the business of 

 the Trust. 



(2.) He is charged with all payments 

 made on account of the Museum from 

 the Funds' Account at the Bank of 

 England ; he is therefore empowered 

 to sign Cheques for payments from 

 the Funds' Account; and of these 

 payments he is to keep an exact state- 

 ment, which shall be laid before the 

 Standing Committee at the close of each 

 financial year. 



(3.) He shall give securities for the 

 due discharge of his office, to the amount 

 of 10,000/. ; that is to say, his own bond 

 lor 5,000/., and two other securities in 

 a joint and several bond to the amount 

 of 5,000/. 



(4.) He is to examine and check all 

 bills sent in by tradespeople, and certify 

 that the articles have been ordered by the 

 proper authority, that the charges are 



