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Suburbs thereof, one General Repository 

 should be erected and provided for the Re- 

 ception of the Collections and Libraries 

 therein mentioned, and of such other Collec- 

 tions and Libraries as, with the like Appror 

 bation, should be admitted into the same, 

 which several Collections, Additions, and 

 Libraries so received into the said General 

 Repository, should remain and be preserved 

 therein for public Use to all Posterity : 

 Purchase of the And whereas, under the Provisions of an 



British Museum. 



Act of the Twenty- eighth Year of his late 

 Majesty King George the Second, intituled, 

 An Act for "vesting Montagu House in Trustees 

 and their Heirs, freed and discharged from all 

 the Estates, Uses, and Agreements to which it 

 at present stands limited and appointed upon 

 Trust, to convey the same to the Trustees of the 

 British Museum for a General Repository, and 

 upon such other Trusts as therein are mentioned; 

 the capital Messuage or Mansion House here- 

 tofore called Montagu House, situate in Great 

 Russell Street, in the Parish of Saint George 

 Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, and 

 the Outhouses, Buildings, and Gardens be- 

 longing to the same, were duly conve}^ed and 

 assured unto and to the Use of the Trustees 



