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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
{a) that no officer be appointed without the approval of the 
Governor General in Council if such officer be, at the date of his 
appointment, in India, or without the approval of the Secretary 
of State for India in Council if such officer be not then in India; 
(6) that no new office Ue created, and no salaries of officers 
be altered, without the previous sanction of the Governor General 
in Council. 
9. The said Trustees may from time to time order any 
duplicates of printed books, medals, coins, 
Trustees may exchange specimens of Natural History or other 
or sell duplicates. ^ i .i x ht 
curiosities deposited in the Indian Museum 
to be exchanged for manuscripts, books or other objects of in¬ 
terest, or direct any such duplicates to be sold and the money to 
arise from such sale to be laid out in the purchase of manuscripts, 
books, maps, medals, coins, specimens of Natural History or 
other curiosities that may be proper for the said Museum. 
]0. At all meetings of the said Trustees three shall be a 
Quorum quorum for the transaction of business 
and for the exercise of any of the powers 
conferred upon them by this Act. 
Duties of the Trustees. 
11. The said Trustees shall furnish to the Government of 
India, on or before the first day of Decem- 
Trustees shall furnish each year, a report of their several 
counte ^ proceedings for the past twelve months, 
and further shall furnish, on or before 
the same day in each year, to such Auditor as the Governor 
General in Council appoints in this behalf, accounts of all moneys 
expended by the Trustees during the past twelve months, sup¬ 
ported by the necessary vouchers. 
The said Trustees shall cause such report and accounts to be 
annually published for general information. 
12. The said Trustees shall cause every article in the said 
, . , .... collectionsbelongingto the Asiatic Society, 
Collections of Asiatic j ii j. ^ ri. u 
Society to be kept distin- all additions that may hereafter be 
guished in the Museum. made thereto otherwise than by purchase 
under section six, to be marked and 
numbered, and (subject to the provisions contained in sections 
nine and fifteen) to be kept and preserved in the said Indian Museum 
with such marks and numbers; and an inventory of such addi¬ 
tions shall be made by the said Society, one copy whereof shall 
be signed by the said Trustees and delivered to the said Society, 
and another copy shall be signed by the Council of the said 
Society and delivered to the said Trustees, and shall be kept by 
them along with the inventory already delivered to the said 
Trustees as aforesaid. 
