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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: I814-I9I4. 
XXII of 
1876. 
XXII of 
1876. 
1. (1) This Act may be called the Indian Museum Act, 
1887; and 
Title and commence¬ 
ment. (2) It shall come into force at once. 
2. Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Indian Museum Act, 1876, 
-D 1 , , . are repealed. 
Kepeal oi certain sec- ^ 
tions of Act XXII of 
1876. 
3. For those sections the following shall be substituted. 
Substitution of new sec- namely . 
tions for sections repealed. 
'' Incor'poration of the Trustees."’ 
“ 3. The Trustees of the said Indian Museum shall be— 
Constitution and incor- {<^) the person for the time being hold- 
poration of the Trustees ing the office of Accountant 
of the Indian Museum. General of Bengal; 
(b) five other persons to be appointed by the Governor 
General in Council; 
(c) five other persons to be appointed by the Lieutenant- 
Governor of Bengal; 
(d) five other persons to be appointed by the Council of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal; and 
(e) five other persons to be appointed by the Trustees; 
and the said Trustees shall be a Body Corporate, by the 
name of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, and shall have per¬ 
petual succession and a common seal. 
“4. All the powers of the said Body Corporate may be 
1 r X exercised so long and so often as there 
JNumber of corporators. . i <> 
are nine members thereof. 
“5. If a Trustee appointed under section 3 dies, or is 
, absent from the meetings of the Trustees 
Trustees for more than twelve consecutive months, 
or desires to be discharged, or refuses or 
becomes incapable to act, or becomes Accountant General of 
Bengal, then the authority which appointed the Trustee may 
appoint a new Trustee in his place.” 
4. (I) For the purposes of the Indian Museum Act, 1876, 
as amended by this Act— 
Trustees. (^) persons nominated by the 
Governor General in Council 
under the Indian Museum Act 1876, and now hold¬ 
ing office as Trustees, shall be deemed to be persons 
appointed by the Governor General in Council under 
section 3 of that Act as amended by this Act; 
(6) the President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and the 
other members of the Council of that Society nomi- 
