300 A. D.I 753- 



' the officers and fervants fliall be appointed by thofe three, or any two 

 ' of them; who arc hereby empowered, in cafe of the ficknefs or other 

 ' neceflary abfence of thofe officers, to appoint deputies to fupply their 

 ' places. 



' Vni) Free accefs to the faid general repofitory fliall be given by 



* the truftees to all fludious and curious perfons, at fuch times, in fucli 

 ' manner, and under fuch regulations, for infpecting and confulting 

 ' the fame, as by the truflees, at a general meeting, fliall be limited 



* for that purpofe. 



' IX) A lottery for L300,ooo in tickets of L3 each, is hereby ap- 

 ' pointed for the purpofes aforefaid ; and twice 50,000 tickets, at L3 



* each, were to be ifllied for that end ; the firfl; 50,000 tickets to deter- 

 ' mine the fate of the fecond 50,000 tickets:"* And the profits arifing 

 from that lottery were to pay the fum of L2o,ooo to Sir Hans Sloane's 

 executors, and Lio.ooo to the countefs of Oxford; the expenfe of pur- 

 chafing a general repofitory for receiving the mufeum from Sir Hans's 

 manor-houfe at Cheliea, receiving the manufcripts of the late earl of 

 Oxford, and removing the Cottonian library ; and alfo for falaries to 

 officers and fervants, and the necefl^ary furniture of the general repofi- 

 tory, and fuch cabinets, book-cafes, and other neceflaries and embel- 

 lifliments as the condition of the feveral colledions fliall require. 



We fliall only farther add, that fince this adl was pafled, the truftees 

 have purchafed and fitted up the elegant palace of the late duke of 

 Montague, for the i^eception of the different colledions ; an houfe 

 worthy to be the general repofitory of the richeft and nobleft colledion 

 In the univerfe ; — a colledion fo rich, fo vaft, and fo amazing, as literally 

 to require days inflead of hours, for the mere perufal of it. 



An act of parliament paflt;d this feflion to render more effedlual an 

 ad of the I 2th year of Queen Anne, for providing a public reward for 

 fuch perfon or perfons as fliall difcover the longitude at fea, and to 

 enlarge the number of commiflioners for putting in execution the faid 

 ad. This ftatute (after reciting the former ad) now enads, that 

 whereas a competent number of the commiflioners for the longitude 

 have heard and received feveral propofals, at different times, for that 

 difcovery, and were fo far fatisfied of the probabilities of fuch difcove- 

 ries, that they thought it proper to make experiments thereof, and 

 certified the fame to the commiflioners of the navy, with the name of 

 Mr. John Harrifon, author of the faid propofals, who thereupon received 



* In this lottery only L200,coo were paid in fliillings each for the eftablifhment of the British 

 prizes to the adventurers, and L 100,000 (deduct- museum, one of the noblcd inftitutions in the 

 ing only the expenfe of the lottery) remained to kingdom, the advantages of which are immediately 

 this general repofitor)- : fo difadvanlageous a lot- or mediately enjoyed by every perfon in the who!* 

 tcry having never before been countenanced by world who has a talle for literature or natural phi- 

 authority. A. lofophy. Where has Li 00,000 of Britifli money. 



Bv this lottery the holders of 100,000 tickets ever been better employed .' AA 

 coUedlively and voluntarily contributed twenty 



