ACTS AND VOTES, &c. 



26 GEORGII II. REGIS. 



An Act for the Purchase of the Museum, or 

 Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the 

 Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and for 

 providing One General Repository for the 

 better Reception and more convenient -Use of 

 the said Collections ; and of the Cottonian 

 Library, and of the Additions thereto. 



Whereas Sir Hans Sloane of Chelsea, in Preamble, re- 



citing the Co- 



the County of Middlesex Baronet, having, ^ui^sir 

 through the Course of many Years, w \th. Hans Sloa ™' 

 great Labour and Expence, gathered together 

 whatever could be procured either in our 

 own or foreign Countries, that was rare and 

 curious, did, by a Codicil bearing Date the 

 Twentieth Day of July in the Year of our 

 Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty- 

 nine, and annexed to his last Will and 



