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7 GEORGII. III. REGIS. 



CAP. XVIIL 



An Act to enable the Trustees of the British 

 Museum to exchange, sell, or dispose of, any 

 Duplicates of printed Books, Medals, Coins, 

 or other Curiosities; and for laying out the 

 Money arising by such Sale, in the Purchase 

 of other Things that may be wanting in, or 

 proper for, the said Museum, 



Wh ereas by an Act of Parliament passed 

 in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of 

 his late Majesty King George the Second, in- 

 titled, An Act for the Purchase of the Mu- 

 seum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of 

 the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and 

 for better providing One General Repository J or 

 the better Reception, and more convenient Use 3 

 of the said Collection, and of the Cottonian 



