28 ESSEX FIELD CLUB YEARBOOK, 1908.
but shall always keep some person employed in that office. The Corpora-
tion 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 dona-
tions which may be subscribed or given to the Club for the special pur-
pose for which the Museum Maintenance Fund is established by
individual members of the Club or other persons. The said annual
contribution of Fifty pounds shall commence as from the date of this.
Agreement. All such annual or other donations shall be carried by the
Treasurer of the Club to a separate account to be called the " Museum
Maintenance Fund " and the Club shall cause to be prepared and pre-
sented to the Corporation annually an account of all contributions re-
ceipts and payments to for and out of or on account of the said Fund.
(8) The Club will endeavour to raise by public subscription or other-
wise in as short a time as may reasonably be possible a Fund to be
called " The Museum Purchase Fund" and the amount of the Fund
which the Club is so enabled to raise shall be applied in the purchase at
the discretion of the Council of the Club of additions to the said general
collection of articles and things of a nature hereinbefore mentioned to be
comprised in such collection and for the obtaining of special expert,
assistance in determining and arranging collections and other expenses of
a like nature which may be required in the Museum.
(9) The Club will as heretofore keep the said general collection and
all additions thereto covered by Insurance against loss by fire and will
apply any moneys received under such Insurance in replacing as far as
possible such articles and things as shall be destroyed or damaged by
fire.
(10) The Museum shall be primarily a local museum serving to illus-
trate in the most scientific and modern manner possible with the means
at command the biology geology meteorology topography ethnology pre-
historic and other antiquities agriculture fisheries manufactures industries
of Essex and the neighbouring sea rivers and border lands. The Plan
of the Museum may also include illustrations of local antiquities and
views pictures maps of 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 of 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: —