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By deed of declaration of trust, dated 29th January, 1868, 
the Natural History Society provided for the transfer to the 
Owens College, as the future Trustee of the Museum on 
behalf of the public and the professors and students of the 
College, of the Society’s collections and property, upon there 
appearing, to the satisfaction of the interim commissioners 
then appointed, sufficient ground for believing that the 
College would be effectually enlarged, placed upon a public 
basis, and well housed in new buildings. When this satis- 
faction should have been declared, the property was to be 
vested in the College upon Trust for sale, and out of the 
proceeds the sum of £1,500 was to be payable by the Trus- 
tees of the enlarged College to Trustees to be appointed for 
that purpose by the Council of the Manchester Literary 
and Philosophical Society, on such conditions as shall be 
agreed upon by the same Council and the Trustees of the 
enlarged College (now called Governors) as will provide 
for the application of the said sum of £1,500 in the 
hands of the said Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society for the promotion of Natural History in Manchester. 
The commissioners met on the 10th instant, and after 
examining proposals received from the College for a tem- 
porary exhibition of the Museum in the new College 
buildings now in process of erection in Oxford Road, 
decided upon completing the arrangement with the College. 
The Trustees of the College will therefore at once proceed 
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to endeavour to sell the Peter Street site, to be delivered up 
in June, 1873, for money or for rent, as may seem best. In 
the latter case it has been agreed between the Commis- 
sioners and the College that the College shall pay over £60 
per annum as interest at 4 per cent on £1,500 until the prin- 
cipal shall have been paid over. It will be one of the first 
duties of the new Council to take steps in respect to this 
communication. 
