Contains:Notification to Mrs. Eugen Rautenstrauch, Councillor of Commerce, that Willi Foy, who had been appointed director on the recommendation of his son Theodor, had taken up his office on 1 January 2005. The director was asked to transfer the pro rata salary (1901); the director's duties included business trips, domestic matters of the museum in the Bayenturm and in the Quatermarktschule, including closure due to reconstruction, electricity consumption, equipment (cupboards), inspection of heating and electricity bills, also for the director's office in the Hafenamtsgebäude, supervisor; Decisions of the Commission for the Rautenstrauch-Joest- and the Handels-Museum; transfer of the Egyptian antiquities of the Joest Collection to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (1902); extension of the exhibition in the Quatermarktschule due to the move of the Handels-Museum to the Severinstorburg, procurement of cupboards and desks (1902); refusal of the acquisition of a Chinese collection (1903); W. from St. Paul-Hilaire concerning the invitation to the commission meetings (1902, 1903); excerpt from the reading hall of the Quatermarktschule, transfer of the rooms to the museum (1904); fire due to defective power line (1904); temporary employment of the unemployed locksmith Johann Schild (1905); Transfer of the subsidy for the salary of the museum director by the von Rautenstrauch family (1905); use of the museum workers in the context of the opening preparations (1906); museum trip to England (1907); reprint of the museum guide (1907/08, with offers M. DuMont Schauberg, Accidenz-, Buch- und Kunst-Druckerei J. P. Bachem, Cologne publishing house
