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Title: The naturalist of the Saint Croix. Memoir of George A. Boardman
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Boardman, Samuel Lane, 1836-1914
Subjects: Boardman, George Augustus, 1818-1901 Birds Birds
Publisher: Bangor : Priv. print
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uld houseit in a splendid manner, that it was to have appropriatecare and always be open to the public and to the freeuse of scientific students. The preliminary contract for the transfer of the col-lection, dated December 8, 1900, was ratified by the Pro-vincial Parliament by an act passed April 3, 1901. Thisact is Chapter XX of First Edward VII, and is as follows : An Act relating to the Boardman Collection of Birds and Animals. Sec. Sec. 1. Preamble setting out contract. Gov- 2. Duplicates may be placed in Im-ernor in Council authorized to perial Institute in London ; pro- make payments as provided by vision for preserving collection, contract out of current revenues. Passed 3d April, 1901. Whereas by memorandum of agreement made on the eighthday of December, A. D. 1900, between George A. Boardman ofCalais, in the State of Maine, of the first part, and Her Majestythe Queen, represented therein by the Honorable the Surveyor-General, of the second part, it was witnessed that the said
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w XH O THE BOARDMAN COLLECTION 105 George A. Boardman thereby sold to Her Majesty the wholecollection of birds, eggs, heads of animals, horns, etc., all ascontained in the building in Calais, used for the said collection,and specified and described in a list furnished to the said Surveyor- (itiii nil, for the sum of , which amount was to be paid as follows, namely: a first one-third portion thereof imme-diately after the close of the present Session of the LegislativeAssembly of the Province, the second one-third portion thereofimmediately after the close of the Legislative Assembly to be heldin the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and two, andthe last oue-third portion of said payment immediately after theclose of the Legislative Assembly which will be held in the yearof our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three; the said lasttwo payments to bear interest at the rate of five per cent, perannum from the time of delivery of the said collection to the saidSurveyor-General,

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