Rules of the friends at Dartmouth Borough Museum, as altered up to 17th Feb 1959

1. Name. The name of the society is the friends of Dartmouth Borough Museum.

2. Objects. The principal object of the society is to assist the curatorship of the Borough Museum Dartmouth in conducting and developing the Museum, and in particular by furnishing, through the membership, and voluntary attendance officers and the purchase,clean?, mounting? and care of the additional exhibits for the museum. All the exhibits, show cases, furnature etc, when purchased by the society and given to the Museum, shall henceforth be the property of the Corporation of Dartmouth. In the event of the society, or its committee, wishing only to loan exhibits or furnishings to the Museum the loan shall be made by the trustees of the society and a receipt acknowledging the loan shall be obtained by the trustees from the curator at of the museum.

A secondary object of the society is to arrange lectures, excursions or exhibitions to stimulate artistic and cultural interest on behalf of the members and people of Dartmouth generally.

3. Membership. The members of the society shall be selected by the committee. Members of shall pay annual subscriptions of two shillings, which amount may be varied by an ordinary resolution at an annual general meeting. The annual subscription shall be due on 1st April each year, and in the event of the subscription of any member being six months in arrears, the committee may resolve that membership has been terminated.

4. Officers and Committee. The chairman of the committee shall be the Honorary Curator of the Dartmouth Borough Museum and the vice chairman shall be any person nominated by him. There shall also be an Secretary and an Honorary Treasure to be selected at the annual general meeting in each year. In addition to the four officers mentioned above there shall be eight members of committee to be elected at the annual general meeting in each year.

5. Trustees. The first trustees shall be Messes Edgar Dorman, Wyndem Payne and Percy Russell, all of Dartmouth. Any change shall be made by a resolution at a special general meeting of the society. The trustees if shall hold as the property any articles acquired by the society and placed in their custody by a resolution of the society all of the committee.

6. Accounts. The accounts of the society should be made up to 31st March in each year by the Honorary Treasurer and audited for many a Honorary Auditor to to be elected at each annual general meeting.

7. Annual General Meeting. The committee shall arrange for the holding of an annual general meeting in the month of May in each year, giving a fortnight's notice in writing to all members of the dates, time and place of each meeting. Any nominations for the officers and committee, other then those retiring shall be made, in writing? by not less than two members, and sent to the Honorary Secretary at least two clear days before the meeting. At the meeting the report of the committee shall be submitted for approval by members, together with the audited accounts made up to the 31st March previous.

8. Special Meeting. A special general meeting shall be call by the committee on their own initiative, or at the request in writing of not less than five members, a fortnight's notice in writing of the time, date and place shall be given by the committee to all members, and specifying the business due be transacted. No other busines shall be transacted at the meeting.

9.Alterations. The rules shall be altered only at a special general meeting.

10. Liquidation. The society should be wound up if a resolution to that effect is passed at a special general meeting by a three-quarters majority of members present and voting at such a meeting. The method of disposal of any surplus funds, and of any property held on behalf of the society by the trustees for the time being, shall be the subject of an ordinary resolution at the meeting at which the resolution to wind up at the solidity has been adopted. Such disposals shall be for charitable objects only.