National Gallery of Ireland Act, 1854

Power to Governors, &c. of Marsh’s Library to admit any other Collection of Books into the same Building.

XIV. It shall be lawful for the Governors and Guardians of Archbishop Marsh’s Library to admit into that Portion of the Building to be erected as aforesaid which shall be appropriated to the Reception of a Public Library any Books which any public Body or private Individual or Individuals may desire either to present or give to the said last-mentioned Governors and Guardians, or may desire to deposit there for the Use of the Public, upon such Terms nevertheless as to the Arrangement of such Books, the Mode of Access thereto, the Accommodation of Readers, and the Management and Control of said Books, as may be agreed upon between the said last-mentioned Governors and Guardians and such public Body or private Individual or Individuals so giving or depositing such Books as aforesaid; and all such Books as shall be so given, presented, or deposited shall, until Parliament shall otherwise provide, be and remain under the Care and Management and in the Possession of the said last-mentioned Governors and Guardians and such other Person or Persons as shall be agreed on between them and the Body or Bodies, Individual or Individuals, giving, presenting, or depositing such Books, or in such other Care, Management, and Possession as shall be agreed on between the said last-mentioned Guardians and such Body or Bodies, Individual or Individuals, so giving, presenting, or depositing as aforesaid.