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bouring sea rivers and border lands. The Plan of the Museum may also include
illustrations of local antiquities and views pictures maps ot local interest as
well as occasional loan collections and exhibitions. In addition to the purely
local collections the Museum may contain as funds and space will permit
an educational series of specimens and preparations and any objects
serving to illustrate the history use or development ot minerals rocks animals
plants fossils and antiquities but in the selection and exhibition of such specimens
the primary object of the Museum shall always be kept in view. Also
the purely local character of the Museum shall be subject to the following
exceptions :—
(a) That specimens appertaining to classification anatomy development
distribution et caetera of animals and plants fossils minerals
antiquities need not necessarily be of Essex origin but may be
specimens from any locality British or Foreign selected with the
view of securing the best illustrations possible of the fact or
principle desired to be elucidated.
(b) That the Museum may contain specimens or collections of British or
Foreign natural history geology antiquities provided that they are
or can be preserved so that they may be kept in cabinets or other-
wise entirely distinct from the Essex series and provided also that
they do not limit or interfere with the primary objects of the
Museum as a local collection.
(11) If within the period of twenty one years from the death of the
survivor of the now living descendants of Her Majesty the Queen the Club
shall cease to exist or if within such period the Club shall fail to perform or
observe any one or more of the stipulations herein expressed or appearing to
be performable or observable by them for the space of six calendar months
after notice of such failure shall have been put up by the Corporation in the
Museum then and in either of such cases the contents of the Museum shall
become the property of the Corporation and the Corporation shall thereafter
and thenceforth preserve and carry on the Museum as a permanent Institution
and as a Local (Essex) and Educational Museum on the lines of the scheme
laid down in Clause 10 of this Agreement.
(12) The Corporation have been endeavouring to purchase some free-
hold property for the erection of a Museum and from the negotiations it
appears that the land is subject to certain covenants which cannot be removed
and which might interfere with the Corporation using the land for the above-
named purposes. The Corporation will at their own expense during the
present Session apply to Parliament and endeavour to obtain powers
authorizing them to build notwithstanding such Covenants. In the event
of such powers not being obtained on or before the thirtieth day of August
one thousand eight hundred and ninety eight this Agreement shall thereupon
become absolutely void.
In Witness whereof the Corporation has caused its Corporate Seal
to be hereunto affixed the day and year first above written.
The Corporate Seal of the Mayor Aldermen and
Burgesses of the County Borough of West Ham
was hereunto affixed in the presence of
W. Ivey,
Mayor
Fred E. Hilleary
Town Clerk