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THE INDIAN MUSEUM: 1814—1914. 
XXII of 
1876 . 
XXII of 
1876 . 
(e) is pppointed to perform the duties of any office specified 
in section 2, clause {a), 
the authority which nominated the Trustee may nominate a new 
Trustee in his place. 
5. From the commencement of this Act the term of office of 
all persons appointed to be Trustees under 
the Indian Museum Act, 1876, shall 
cease. 
Vacation of office by 
existing Trustees. 
Property and powers of the Trustees. 
6. (1) All the property, whether moveable or immoveable, 
which at the commencement of this Act 
Property vested in or jg Trustees of the Indian 
of the Trustees. Museum constituted by the Indian Mu¬ 
seum Act, 1876, on trust for the purposes 
of the said Museum shall, together with any such property which 
may hereinafter be given, bequeathed, transferred or acquired for 
the said purposes, vest in the Trustees of the Indian Museum 
constituted by this Act on trust for the purposes of the said 
Museum: 
Provided that the Trustees may expend the capital of any 
portion of such property which may consist of money on the 
maintenance, improvement and enlargement of the collections 
deposited in, presented to or purchased for the said Museum or 
otherwise for the purposes of the same as they may think fit. 
(2) The Trustees shall have the exclusive possession, oc¬ 
cupation and control, for the purposes of such trust, of the land 
specified in the schedule, including any buildings which may have 
been, or may hereafter be, erected thereon, other than those 
portions thereof which have been set apart by the Trustees for the 
records and offices of the Geological Survey of India. 
7. Subject to the provisions of any bye-laws made in this 
behalf, the Trustees may, from time to 
Power to Trustees to time_ 
exchange, sell and destroy ’ 
articles in collections. {a) deliver, by way of loan, to any per¬ 
son the whole or any portion of, 
or any article contained in, any collection vested in 
them under this Act; 
(b) exchange or sell duplicates of articles contained in any 
such collection and take or purchase, in the place of 
such duplicates, such articles as may in their opinion 
be worthy of preservation in the Museum; 
(c) present duplicates of articles contained in any such col¬ 
lection to other Museums in British India; and 
{d) remove and destroy any article contained in any such 
collection. 
