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APPENDIX A.
[Endorsement.]
Dated 25th July, 1898.
The West Ham Corporation
and
The Essex Field Club.
Agreement as to the Museum of the Essex Field Club.
An Agreement made the twenty-fifth day of July one thousand eight
hundred and ninety eight Between the Mayor Aldermen and
Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham (hereinafter called the
Corporation) of the one part and William Cole of Buckhurst Hill in the
County of Essex the Secretary and Curator to an Association of persons
known as the Essex Field Club (hereinafter called the Club) of the other part.
Whereas J. Passmore Edwards, Esq. has offered to contribute the sum of
£2,500 towards the erection of a building adjacent to the Corporation's Technical
Institute in the Romford Road Stratford Essex on land to be acquired by the
Corporation on certain conditions including a condition that a portion of the
said building shall be devoted to the accommodation of the Club's collections.
AND Whereas such offer to contribute to the erection of a building has been
accepted by the Corporation on the said conditions. Now it is hereby
agreed between the parties hereto as follows :—The said William Cole
undertaking and agreeing for the performance and observance of the stipulations
hereinafter expressed or appearing to be performable and observable by the Club.
(1) The Corporation shall devote the whole of the ground-floor and one
half of the basement of the said building solely to the purpose of a Musuem
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
wanning 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