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THE 'INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
repair, and pay and defray the salaries, allowances, and pensions 
of the officers and servants, and all other expenses connected with 
the said Indian Museum. 
3. The Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at 
Trustees of the Indian Fort William in Bengal, 
Museum incorporated. 
the Bishop of Calcutta, 
the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta, 
the Secretary to the Government of India in the Home 
Department, 
four other persons to be nominated by the Governor 
General of India in Council, 
the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and three 
other Members of the said Society for the time being, to be 
nominated by the Council of the said Society, 
the Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, 
and their successors, appointed as hereinafter directed 
and subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, shall be and 
are hereby constituted a Body Corporate by the name of the 
“ Trustees of the Indian Museum,” and shall have a common seal, 
and by such name shall have perpetual succession ; and all the 
powers of the said Corporation may be exercised so long and so 
often as there shall exist five Members thereof. 
4. It shall be lawful for the said Body Corporate to receive 
bequests, donations, and subscriptions 
Trustees empowered to ig^^d, buildings, money, and any such 
receive bequests, dona- i-i ij-. l -j ji. 
tions, and subscriptions. objects of interest as aforesaid, and to 
hold the same and to lay out such money 
for the purposes of the said Jndian Museum in the improvement 
and enlargement of the collections deposited in, presented to or 
purchased for the said Museum, and all such collections shall 
become the property of the said Body Corporate for the purposes 
of their Trust herein mentioned; and the said Body Corporate 
shall have the exclusive possession, occupation, and control, for 
the purposes of such Trusts, of the said building, other than 
those portions thereof which upon its completion shall be set 
apart by the said Body Corporate for the records and offices of 
the Geological Survey of India, and for the accommodation of 
the said Society, and the reception of their Library, Manu¬ 
scripts, Maps, Coins, Busts, Pictures, Engravings, and other pro¬ 
perty. 
Ex-officio Members. 
The persons for the time being holding the offices, res¬ 
pectively, mentioned in Section 3 of this 
Act shall be ex-officio Members of the 
said Body Corporate, and shall cease to be such Members, respec¬ 
tively, upon ceasing to hold the said offices respectively. In 
the event of any two of the said offices being held by the 
