APPENDIX I—MUSEUM ACTS. 
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nated by that Council under the Indian Museum Act, 
1876, and now holding office as Trustees, shall be 
deemed to be persons appointed by the Council of the 
Asiatic Society of Bengal under the said section; and 
(c) the persons elected and appointed by the Trustees under 
the said Act, and now holding office as Trustees, 
shall be deemed to have been appointed by the 
Trustees under the said section. 
(2) The Secretary to the Government of India and the 
Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India shall cease to 
be eX’Offlcio members of the said Body Corporate. 
5. Notwithstanding anything in the Indian Museum Act, XXII of 
1876,— 1876 . 
keep^TolirctionrS be- («) the Trustees of the Indian Museum 
longing to them. d they think fit, may, with 
the previous sanction of the 
Governor General in Council, and subject in each case 
to such conditions as he may approve and to such 
rules as he may prescribe, assume the custody and 
administration of collections which are nob the pro¬ 
perty of the Trustees for the purposes of their trusts 
in that Act mentioned, and keep and preserve the 
collections either in the Indian Museum or elsewhere ; 
and 
(6) in the event of the trust constituted by that Act being 
determined, collections of which the Trustees have 
assumed the custody and administration under the 
foregoing part of tliis section shall not by reason of 
their then being in the Indian Museum become the 
property of the Government of India. 
And whereas it is provided in the Indian Museum Act, 1876, XXII of 
that the Trustees of the Indian Museum shall have the exclusive 876 . 
possession, occupation and control, for the purposes of their 
trusts in that Act mentioned, of the whole of the building called 
the Indian Museum, except certain portions thereof set apart 
for other purposes; and whereas the Trustees are by virtue of 
that provision in possession of the property described in the 
schedule to this Act; It is hereby enacted as follows :— 
6. The Trustees may, with the previous sanction of the 
Governor General in Council, and subject 
Power to Trustees to such conditions as he may approve, 
in their possession. deliver possession of the whole or any 
part of that property to such person as 
the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal may appoint in that behalf. 
