REPORT. V 



present application, but has conferred a general benefit, by 

 allowing similar favours to be dispensed to Scientific and 

 Charitable Institutions, in every part of the kingdom. 



As soon as the Bill had passed, a warrant was issued by the 

 Treasury, for making out the Grant ; and the Surveyor for 

 the Crown received directions to assign to the Society, the 

 ground for which it had applied. The draft of the Grant has 

 been since transmitted from the Land Revenue Office; the 

 best opinions have been taken on the Society's part, upon the 

 particulars of the conveyance; it has again passed through the 

 hands of the legal advisers of the Crown, and now only wants 

 the Sign Manual for its final completion. * 



On being informed that the warrant for the Grant was 

 signed, the Subcommittee to whose care the concerns of the 

 Building had been entrusted, anxious to obtain the opinion of 

 the County on the measures which they proposed to adopt, 

 summoned a meeting of the General Committee, and submitted 

 to them the plans and estimates which they had procured. 

 The Report which was made on that occasion has been 

 printed ; ^ and it may be sufficient to refer to it, for an explana- 

 tion of the principles on which the new Museum has been 

 designed. These principles were acceded to by the General 

 Committee; and the design was adopted. Unanimous ap- 

 probation was bestowed upon the simple and noble elevation 

 proposed for the Front, and the spacious and commodious 

 arrangements planned for the Interior of the Building. 



■ Since the Annual Meeiing, the Sign Manual has been obtained, 

 • See Appendix, page 31. 



