27 Georgii II. 



assembled, whereof the Archbishop of Can~ 

 terbury, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, 

 and the Speaker of the House of Commons, 

 shall be Three, shall, in such Manner as they 

 shall think fit, elect and nominate Fifteen 

 other Persons to be associated to them in 

 the Executions of the Trusts thereby in 

 them reposed ; and when any of the Trustees 

 so elected and nominated shall die, shall in 

 like Manner elect and nominate a fit Person 

 or Persons to supply the Place or Places of 

 him or them so dying, and so to ties quoties, 

 as any of the said Trustees so elected and 

 nominated, or others so elected and nomi- 

 nated to supply their Places, shall happen to 

 die: And whereas the Powers and Authorities 

 given to the whole Body of the Trustees of 

 the British Museum, by the said Act incor- 

 porated, are thereby limited to be exercised 

 by them, or the major Part of them, at any 

 General Meeting assembled : And whereas 

 it may happen that the said Archbishop of 

 Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord 

 Keeper, and the Speaker of the House of 

 Commons, may be hindered by Indisposition 

 or Avocation, from being all of them present 

 at such Elections of Trustees ; and it may 



