7 Georgii III. 



Library, and of the Additions thereto; it is, 

 amongst other Things, enacted, that within 

 the Cities of London or Westminster, or the 

 Suburbs thereof, One General Repository 

 should be erected or provided in such conve- 

 nient Place, and in such Manner, as the 

 Trustees thereby appointed, or the major 

 Part of them, at a General Meeting assem- 

 bled, should direct, for the Reception not 

 only of the said Museum, or Collection of 

 Sir Hans Sloane, but also of the Cottonian Li- 

 brary, and of the Additions which had been 

 or should be made thereto, by virtue of the 

 last Will and Testament of Arthur Edzvards, 

 Esquire, in the said Act named, and likewise 

 of the said Harleian Collection of Manu- 

 scripts, and of such other Additions to the 

 said Cottonian Library as, with the Approba- 

 tion of the Trustees by the said Act ap- 

 pointed, or the major Part of them, at a Ge- 

 neral Meeting assembled, should be made 

 thereunto, in Manner therein-after men- 

 tioned ; and of such other Collections and 

 Libraries as, with the like Approbation 

 should be admitted into the said General 

 Repository ; and that the said several Col- 

 lections, Additions, and Library, so received 



