344 THE ESSEX MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.
for the reception accommodation and exhibition of the instruments specimens
maps books pictures engravings articles and things of a scientific artistic anti-
quarian or topographical character now belonging to the Club other than and
except such articles and things as are known as the Epping Forest Collection
all which articles and things with such exceptions as aforesaid are hereinafter
referred to as the Club's general collection and shall provide for the due
warming lighting cleaning and caretaking of the said Rooms and on completion
of the said building the Club shall remove thereto and keep therein all its said
general collection and shall thereafter place and keep in the said rooms all
additions which shall be made to the said general collection.
(2) THE Corporation shall as from the date of these presents pay to the
Treasurer for the time being of the Club as a contribution to a fund to be
called the "Museum Maintenance Fund" which shall be forthwith established
by the Club the yearly sum of one hundred pounds by equal payments on the
24th day of June and the 25th day of December in every year the first of such
payments or a proportionate part thereof to be made on the 25th day of
December next. The Museum Maintenance Fund shall be devoted to defray-
ing the Curatorial and Management expenses incurred by the Club or its
officers in carrying on the said Museum.
(3) THE Club shall have the control of the said general collection and
the cases and cabinets in which the same may be contained and the acceptance
selection arrangement and scientific management of the contents of the said
Museum whether of a permanent character or temporary or loan collections
or exhibitions and shall have the right of appointing and shall appoint and
employ as its own officer a person to superintend arrange and manage the said
collection to be called the Curator. The Club may dismiss any Curator and
appoint another from time to time but shall always keep some person employed
in that office. The Corporation shall retain the control of the building subject
to the use of the said rooms as aforesaid and shall have the right to determine
the terms and times on and at which respectively the Museum shall be open
to the public and other details connected with the use of the Museum as a
public institution and shall carry on such control by means of its own officers
and servants.
(4) THE Corporation shall allow the Club to deposit its Library in the
Museum buildings the said Library being the property of and under the sole
control of the Club.
(5) THE said Building shall be open to the Curator and to Members of
the Club every day between the hours of ten a.m. and nine p.m. and the
Corporation shall provide for the opening of the building to the Curator and
the Members of the Club on days and at times between the said hours
although the public may not be admissible.
(6) THE Club shall do its best to extend the collections to assist the
Curator in the arrangement and improvement of them and will ask its expert
members and friends to join in the work to the best of their ability so that the
scheme of a County and Educational Museum set forth in Clause 10 of this
Agreement may be carried out in the best possible way.
(7) THE Club shall pay and contribute Fifty pounds per annum to the
Museum Maintenance Fund in addition to any annual or other donations
which may be subscribed or given to the Club for the special purpose for