60 



Acts and Votes, S$c. 



into the said General Repository, should re* 

 main and be preserved therein, for publick 

 Use, to all Posterity : And whereas the said 

 Collections have been greatly increased by 

 considerable Donations from his Majesty, 

 and the Gifts of several Noblemen and 

 others ; and it is probable that great Addi- 

 tions will hereafter be made thereto : And 

 whereas there are now, and there may here- 

 after be, in the Various Departments of the 

 British Museum, many Duplicates of printed 

 Books, Medals, Coins, and. other Curiosities, 

 which it would be proper to dispose of, in 

 order to make Room for others : May it 

 therefore please Your most Excellent Ma- 

 jesty, that it may be enacted; and be it 

 enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma- 

 jesty, by and with the Advice and Consent 

 of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 

 Commons, in this present Parliament assem- 

 five or more bled, and by the Authority of the same, That 



Trustees are 



impowered to . jt shall and may be lawful to and for the said 



order any Du- J> 



piicates of Trustees, and their Successors, or any Five or 



printed Books, ' ' 



Medal 

 £3c, to 



S be C e x- S ' more °f them, at any Meeting assembled, 

 Manusa-fpts, an d they are hereby authorized and im- 

 powered, from Time to Time, and at all 

 Times hereafter, to order any Duplicates of 



