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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
ACT No. XXII OP 18T6. 
Passed by the Governor Gener4L of India in Council. 
{Received the assent of the Governor General on the \lth of 
December, 1876.) 
An Act to provide for the management of the Public 
Museum at Calcutta. 
T^HEREAS, by Act No. XVII of 1866, reciting that it was 
IT expedient to provide for the establish- 
I’eam e. ment of a Public Museum at Calcutta, 
to be called the Indian Museum, it was enacted that the Gover¬ 
nor General in Council should cause to be erected at the expense 
of the Government of India a suitable building in Calcutta, to be 
devoted in part to collections illustrative of Indian Archaeology 
and of the several branches of Natural History, in part to the 
preservation and exhibition of other objects of interest, whether 
historical, physical or economical, in part to the records and 
offices of the Geological Survey of India, and in part to the 
fit accommodation of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and to the 
reception of their library, manuscripts, maps, coins, busts, pic¬ 
tures , engravings and other property; and it was also enacted 
that the Government of India should keep the said building in 
repair and pay and defray the salaries, allowances and pensions 
of the officers and servants, and all other expenses connected 
with the said Museum; and by the Act now in recital certain 
officials and other persons therein mentioned or referred to, 
to the number of thirteen, and their successors, were constituted 
a Body Corporate by the name of the Trustees of the Indian 
Museum, and the said Trustees were empowered to receive 
bequests, donations and subscriptions, and to deal with the same 
in the manner therein mentioned for the purposes of their trusts 
therein mentioned; and it was also enacted that the said Trustees 
should 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, should be set 
apart by the said Trustees for the records and offices of the said 
Geological Survey and for the accommodation of the said Asiatic 
Society and the reception of their library, manuscripts, maps, 
coins, busts, pictures, engravings and other property; and it 
was also enacted that all officers and servants, salaried or other¬ 
wise, employed in the care or management of the trust-property, 
should be appointed, and might be removed or suspended, by the 
said Trustees, subject to such regulations and conditions as the 
said Trustees should think proper; and it was also enacted that 
