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and submits at once a preliminary scheme, suggesting the general 
scope of the details which it would propose in filling up the outline 
which has been sketched out by you. The process of making a 
reference to the Society at large is of necessity tedious ; and the 
Council considers that it will best meet the interests of the Society 
and the convenience of the Government, if it endeavours to obtain 
the general approval of the Government to a scheme which it could 
recommend to the acceptance of the Society in a complete form. In 
this sense and with the distinct reservation, that the opinions expressed 
in this letter are those of the Council, and cannot be held to be 
binding on the Society, or to interfere in any way with its complete 
liberty of action in dealing finally with the matter, the Council 
desires me to make the following observations. 
4. The Council has understood your letter to be designed to 
elicit from the Society an expression of its wishes as to the details of 
the general arrangements, which it had been said must be satisfac¬ 
tory to the members of the Society, before its collections could be 
transferred to a Public Museum ; and it is with much respect that the 
Council desires to submit for the favourable consideration of His Ex¬ 
cellency the Governor-General the following scheme, which in its 
essentials is, it thinks, quite in accordance with the proposals contain¬ 
ed in your letter :— 
I.—Museum. 
I. —The Museum to be a Public Museum, the management being 
vested in a Board of Trustees to be constituted by an Act of the 
Legislature. 
II. —The Trustees to be fourteen in number; the President to be 
His Excellency the Governor-General of India; the Vice-President 
to be the President of the Asiatic Society ; of the remainder, six 
to be named by the Government, and six by the Asiatic Societ}^. 
III. —The complete management, arrangement, and disposal of 
the Museum to be in the Trustees. 
IV. —The Museum to be open to the public under suitable rules 
to be approved by the Government, 
V. —The rules further to provide for the continuance to the Mem¬ 
bers of the Asiatic Society, in respect to the New Museum, of all 
their existing privileges in respect to their own present Museum—in 
regard to their rights of entering the Museum, and of examining 
