APPENDIX 1—MUSEUM ACTS. 
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the Council of the said Asiatic Society should cause the collections 
belonging to such Society, and illustrative of Indian Archaeology 
and the several branches of Natural History, and all additions 
that might be made thereto, to be removed to and deposited in 
the said building at the expense of the Government of India 
as soon as the same should be completed so far as to be in a con¬ 
dition to receive the said collections, and that an inventory of 
the articles in such collections should be made by the said 
Society, one copy whereof was to be signed by the said Trustees 
and kept by the said Society, and another copy was to be signed 
by the said Society and kept by the said Trustees, and that the 
said Society should continue to have the same exclusive property 
in and control over their said library, manuscripts, maps, coins, 
busts, pictures, and engravings which they then possessed, and 
that the Council of the said Society should have the excluBive 
possession, occupation and control, for the purposes of the said 
Society, of those portions of the said building which should be 
set apart for the accommodation of the said Society and tho,^ 
reception of their library and other property thereinbefore 
mentioned; 
And whereas the Government of India has caused the said 
building to be erected, and the Council of the said Society has 
caused the said collections belonging to the same Society to be 
removed to and deposited in the said building at the expense of 
the Government of India; and an inventory of the articles in such 
collections has been made by the said Society, one copy whereof 
has been signed by the said Trustees and delivered to the said 
Society, and another copy has been signed by the Council of the 
said Society and delivered to the said Trustees; 
And whereas the said Trustees have, in pursuance of the said 
Act, set apart certain portions of the said building for the said 
records and offices of the Geological Survey of India; 
And whereas, in consideration of a sum of one hundred and 
fifty thousand rupees paid to them by the Government of India, 
the Council of the said Society has relinquished the exclusive 
possession, occupation and control secured to them by the said 
Act, of the portions of the said building which, under the said 
Act, were to be set apart for the accommodation of the said 
Society and the reception of their said Library and other property; 
And whereas it is expedient to alter.the constitution of the 
said Body Corporate and to amend the law relating to the ap¬ 
pointment and salaries of the said officers: 
And whereas under the circumstances aforesaid it is expedient 
to repeal the said Act, and to re-enact it with the modifications 
hereinafter appearing; It is hereby enacted as follows:— 
Preliminary. 
1. This Act may be called “ The Indian Museum Act, 
Short title. 1876.” 
