/lets and Votes, (§•(% 



titioners are unable to proceed in the Execu* 

 tion of so necessary a Work, which, upon the 

 most exact Computation cannot be completed 

 at a less Expence than Sixteen thousand 

 Pounds, without the Public Aid, they submit 

 the whole Matter to the Wisdom and Muni- 

 ficence of Parliament, conceiving that they 

 should be wanting to the Public in the Exe-> 

 cution of the Trust with which they have 

 been invested, if they omitted tq represent 

 these Circumstances, in confidence that an 

 Institution so honourable to this Country, 

 will never fail to receive the Support of the 

 legislature. 

 Ordered, 



That the said Petition cio lie upon the 

 Table. 



Ordered, 



That the Plan and Estimate referred to in 

 the said Petition be laid before the House. 



Martis, 3* Die Julij, 1804. 

 The House being informed that Mr. Plania 

 from the Trustees of the British Museum^ 

 attended at the Door, he was called in, and 

 at the Bar presented to the House pursuant 

 to their Orders, 



