RAFFLES SOCIETIES. 
a.d. 1878, 
Ss. 4 7. 
Committees 
may frame 
by-laws. 
Property to be 
held to be 
public 
property. 
Contracts of 
the 
Committees 
how signed 
and enforced. 
Life 
subscribers. 
voluntary donations and subscriptions shall be adminis¬ 
tered by the said committee according to the terms o 
the several votes, donations and subscriptions 101 t 
different purposes, and subject to such rules and regu a- 
tions as the Governor prescribes tor the conduct ot 
the business of the committee, and for the duties of tl 
officers employed. , , 
(2) The accounts of the committee shall be audited by 
the Auditor-General. 
4 __(i) The respective committees may with the 
approval of the Governor make by-laws for the internal 
management and protection of their several institutions 
and for the use of the same by the public, and foi the 
manner in which, and to the extent m which the privilege 
of subscribers to the same shall b3 used and enjoyed. 
(2) All such by-laws shall be published in the Gazette. 
(3) Any person who infringes any such by-law shall 
be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 
5 The Botanical Gardens and the Raffles Library, and 
the Raffles Museum, together with all growing and deac 
plants, trees and flowers and other property m the said 
gardens, and all books, papers and manuscripts and other 
property in the said Library, and all articles m the said 
Museum shall be deemed to be public property. 
6 411 contracts entered into by the committees to be 
appointed under this Ordinance shall be signed or 
executed by the President or Chairman for the time being 
of the committee, and shall be deemed to be Crown con¬ 
tracts under Ordinance No. 22 (Grown Suits). 
7 The following persons who were the proprietors of 
the late library shall be classed as subscribers to the 
Raffles Library, without payment, during the terms of 
their natural lives but without power to transfer their 
rights :— _ 
Alexander Duff, Esquire; , 
Alexander Somerville Gumming, Esquuc, 
Jose d’Almeida, Esquire; 
Christian Baumgarten, Esquire; 
Thomas Shelf or d, Esquire; 
Alexander Muirhsad Aitken, Esquire; 
Miss Jessie Little; and 
Robert Campbell, E squire. __ 
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