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    Further, I suggest that the museum, if built, shall be freely "advertised" among the rich Chinese as a place where collections may be safely stored without dues, and as a place where a man may secure the integrity of his collection and at the same time do a lasting benefit to his country and to general scholarship by bequeathing objects on his death or donating them during his life-time.
    Whatever funds the Chinese themselves may voluntarily subscribe to the building of the museum or to its upkeep after it is completed, should be gratefully accepted on the full understanding that in accepting them the American School forfeited none of its right to the management of the museum and the collections contained in it.
   Under these conditions, I believe that a museum owned and managed by the American School would be used by the Chinese Government and people as the natural place of deposit for objects of importance, such as movable monuments taken from their sites for purposes of preservation, objects found by chance or in excavations, collections and objects held in trust by the Government or individual objects seized from persons attempting to export them in contravention to the laws dealing with the export of Chinese antiquities, etc., etc.
    It is further probable that the staff of this museum would be useful to Chinese Government as inspectors of monuments, to recommend what steps should be taken for preservation or restoration of important buildings, etc. It should be understood