Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5·July–December 1935

July–December 1935

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 20 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 1, folder 5 (July–December 1935), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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7. The Applicant shall pay wages for the Curator of the Museum and any other officer or officers appointed by the Governor of Cyprus as aforesaid at a rate not exceeding the sum of 3/- per working day for the Curator of the Museum and for every such officer, and also the transport expenses of the Curator of the Museum and every such officer.

8. Access to the site under excavation is reserved to the Applicant, to the staff of the Applicant carrying out the excavations and to the Curator of the Museum and any other officer or officers appointed by the Governor of Cyprus as aforesaid. The Governor of Cyprus reserves to himself the right of issuing visiting permits to persons not connected with the excavations and also to forbid, if occasion arises, to all visitors whatsoever access to the site under excavation.

9. The Applicant shall keep a record in English, in duplicate, of all antiquities found in the course of the excavations in the form prescribed by the Curator of the Museum and shall submit to the Museum Committee detailed reports as to the actual finds and attach photographs and plans of the field work.

10. All antiquities found during the whole period of the excavations shall be handed by the Applicant to the Curator of the Museum against a receipt in writing under the hand of the Curator of the Museum. All antiquities handed over to the Curator of the Museum as aforesaid shall be kept at the Museum or at such other place or places as the Curator of the Museum may deem expedient.

11. If in the course of the excavations the Applicant discovers any immovable antiquities, such immovable antiquities shall not be removed by the Applicant from the soil or from the place in which they are discovered, unless he shall have previously obtained a special licence in writing from the Governor of Cyprus under the hand of the Colonial Secretary.

12. After the conclusion of the excavations, a share, to be fixed by the Museum Committee with the approval of the

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