Annual Election in any of the Burghs not enumerated in the said III. The Number of the Members of the Council of each of the Number of Councillors said Burghs enumerated in the said Schedule (F.) shall at and after of said 5 the next Annual Election be limited to Six, in which Number shall Burghs to be included the Magistrates and other Office Bearers in use to be be Six. elected according to the present Sett and Constitution of such Burgh, and no larger Number of Councillors in any of the said Burghs shall in future be elected, any Law or Usage to the contrary 10 notwithstanding. A BILL ΤΟ Extend the Powers of the Trustees and Directors of the National Gallery, and to authorize the Sale of Works of Art belonging to the Public. W HEREAS in pursuance of Recommendations of a Com- Preamble. mittee of the House of Commons Pictures and other Works of Art acquired for the National Gallery by Purchases out of Monies granted by Parliament, and by Bequests and Donations, have 5 been placed under the Care and Ordering of Trustees and a Director (appointed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for that Purpose): And whereas it is expedient that Power should be given to dispose of such of the Pictures and other Works of Art under the Care and Ordering of the said Trustees and Director as may 10 be unfit for a National Collection, and that Pictures and other Works of Art given to or for the Benefit of the Nation should, where no other Provision is made by the Donors, vest in and be under the Care and Ordering of the said Trustees and Director: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and 15 with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: Pictures, &c. I. The Trustees and Director of the National Gallery, or any unfit to be Three or more of them, of whom the Director shall be one, present preserved in the National at any Meeting specially assembled for that Purpose, may from Time Gallery may to Time, with the Consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, order that any of the Pictures and Works of Art for 5 the Time being under the Care of the said Trustees and Director, which they may adjudge to be unfit to be preserved as Part of the National Collection, be sold. be sold. Pictures given to the Nation to vest in the Trustees and Director. The Receipt of the Person authorized by the said Trustees and Director to sell such Pictures and Works of Art shall be a sufficient 10 Discharge for the Money arising from such Sale, and such Money shall be paid over by the Person receiving the same into the Exchequer, and shall become Part of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, or shall be paid to the Account of the Paymaster General at the Bank of England, to be laid out in the Purchase of other 15 Pictures and Works of Art for the said National Collection, in like Manner as the Monies granted from Time to Time for that Purpose by Parliament, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being shall direct. II. All Pictures and Works of Art which may be from Time to Time 20 given or bequeathed to the Public or to the Nation, or given or bequeathed by Words showing an Intention that the Gift or Bequest should enure to or for the Benefit of the Public or the Nation, shall (unless the Donor or Testator shall have made other Provision for the Care thereof) vest in and be under the Care and Ordering of the 25 said Trustees and Director of the National Gallery. |