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jects I have confided to the Board. To guard
against any misapprehension which might lead to
a conflict between these bodies; I beg it to be un-
derstood that, in this arrangement, I intend the
power of the Board to he adapted to the organi-
zation and general direction of the departments,
and that of the Society to their operations and
conduct in conformity with such organization and
general direction. I hope that the Board of Trus-
tees and the Society will always act in the dis-
charge of the functions I have assigned to them
respectively, with a liberal spirit of concert and
co-operation and with a harmonious and united
determination to render the Institute an agency
of enduring benefit to the community in which it
is placed.
If there be any legal incapacity in the Mary-
land Historical Society to assume and perform the
duties which it is my wish it should undertake,
the Trustees will be careful to wait until that im-
pediment is removed, by the grant of proper pow-
er to that end by the Legislature, before they com-
mit these duties to that body. And if, at any
time hereafter, that Society should become extinct
it will be the duty of the Trustees then existing
to assume to themselves the ministration and man-
agement of the several departments of the Insti-
tute in the details I have here assigned to the care
of the Society.
The Trustees will make such provision out of
the moneys I have now placed at their disposal,
and out of such as I may hereafter give them, as
may be necessary for the purchase of the ground
and the erection of the building for the Institute;
and will also, in due time, make all suitable pro-
vision for the investment of the several funds re-
quired for the repair, preservation and insurance
of the building and other property connected with
it; for its fuel, lighting and furniture; for the
service of the Library and apartments belonging
to it; for the yearly purchase of books; for the
service, management and expense of the Lecture
Department; for the charges and support of the
Academy of Music; for the support, maintainance
and gradual increase of the Gallery of Art; for
the supply of the yearly prizes to the graduates
of the High Schools, and the School of Design ;
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