Trustees, their Meetings, 
chap. i. orders of the General Meeting or Committee; 
mittee" 8 ° m and give such directions therein as they shall 
think proper ; and if they shall judge it to de- 
serve 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, upon 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 im- 
portance as necessarily to require longer ab- 
sence : and the said leave is not to be granted 
to more than four of the officers at the same 
time, nor to so many unless in cases of neces- 
sity ; it being understood that there shall always 
remain one officer at least of each department 
resident in the house.* 
9. They are also to overlook and examine 
the bills of tradesmen, and all other demands 
upon the Museum \ and if they approve the 
* By Stat. 26 Geo. II. no officer's place can be supplied 
by deputy, unless for occasional sickness or other cause of 
absence, approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the 
Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, or 
any two of them. 
