Minutes of Proceedings. 
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Lords of the Committee of Council on Education on behalf of the 
public, the entire collection of antiquities, coins, and medals, together 
with the cabinets and glass cases in which the same are contained, if 
said latter be required, all belonging to the said Royal Irish Academy, 
with all such additions as may be hereafter received ; and the said 
Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, having agreed to 
accept of this transfer on the terms and under the conditions specified 
below, all of which have been agreed to and approved of by the said 
Boyal Irish Academy : Therefore, We, the said Eoyal Irish Academy, 
do now by these presents, but under the conditions and regulations 
after expressed and referred to, give, grant, assign, transfer, convey, 
and make over to and in favour of the said Lords of the Committee of 
Council on Education, for behoof of the public, all and whole the 
collection of antiquities, coins, and medals, belonging to the said Royal 
Irish Academy, with all such additions as may be hereafter made 
thereto, together with the cabinets and glass cases in which the same 
are contained, if such latter be required ; and it is hereby expressly 
conditioned and declared, that the said Lords of the Committee of 
Council on Education shall, by acceptance hereof, be bound and obliged 
to retain the said collection in Ireland, in suitable apartments pro- 
vided in the Science and Art Museum in Dublin, and at all times 
thereafter shall provide for the preservation and exhibition to the 
public of the collection of antiquities, coins, and medals hereby con- 
veyed : and also it is hereby expressly conditioned and declared that 
the charge and custody of the said collection of antiquities, coins, and 
medals above transferred, shall remain with the said Royal Irish 
Academy, subject to such regulations and directions as may from time 
to time be prescribed by the said Lords of the Committee of Council 
on Education, but so as to leave the Royal Irish Academy as unfettered 
in the charge and management of the Museum as circumstances will 
allow : and also that the funds required to furnish the requisite means 
for the preservation and exhibition thereof, and to pay the salaries of 
the present officers of the Museum, who are to become officers of the 
Science and Art Department, and for the purchase of Irish Antiquities 
as at present voted under the existing Treasure Trove Regulations, 
Ireland, are to be provided by an estimate to be submitted to Parlia- 
ment each year. 
In witness whereof," &c. 
