London Institution. €7 



■hart, for taking the chair, and for the ability and impartia- 

 Jitv with which he has conducted the business of this day. 



The subscription having proceeded with unexpected ra- 

 pidity, a aeneral meeting of the proprietors will be held ou 

 Tuesday next, at the London Tavern, when the chair will 

 be taken at one oVlock precisely. 



London Tavern, May 28, lf!05. 



At a meeting of the proprietors of the I^ondon Institu- 

 tion, Sir F. Baring, Bart. M, P. in ihc chair. 

 Resolved, 

 That the subscription for the names of proprietors be now 

 closed. 



That before any measures are taken for carrying the plan 

 into execution, a petition be presented to his majesty, pray- 

 ing that he would be graciously pleased to grant a charter 

 to the institution. 



That an outline of the plan be laid before the right ho- 

 nourable the secretary of state for the home department. 



Tliat for these purposes it is expedient to elect a com- 

 mittee of managers to continue till a charter shall be ob- 

 tained. 



That the following proprietors be now elected as tempo- 

 rary iTianagers of this institution : 

 Sir Francis Baring, bart. William Manning, esq. M. P. 



M. P. president William Heseltiue Pepys, 



John Julius Angerstein, e^q. esq. 



Thomas Baring, esq. Sir Charles Price, bart. M.P- 



Thomas Bodlev, esq. alderman 



Harvey Christian Combe, Job Matthew Raikes, esq. 



esq. M. P. alderman John Rennie, esq. 



Richard Clarke, F. R. S. Matthew Raine, D.D. 



chamberlain Richard Sharp, esq. F.A.S. 



George Hibbert, esq. John Smith, esq. M. P. 



Benjamin Harrison, esq. Henry Thornton, esq. M. P. 



Henrv Hoare, esq. Samuel Woods, esq. 



Sir Hugh Ingliss, bart. M.P. Robert Wigram jun. esq. 

 Bceston Long, esq. 



That the plan, after it has received the approbation of a 

 general meeting of proprietors, be laid before his majesty's 

 secretary of state, for the purpose of soliciting a charter for 

 the institution. 



That the subsequent proceedinofs of the managers be laid 

 before a general meeting of the proprietors for their appro- 

 bation ; and that, in the mean time, the committee of ma- 

 nagers are hereby auiliorizfd to adopt such measures and 

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