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by Authority of Parliament, it may be 

 judged reafonable, that the advantages 

 accruing from it fhould be rendered as 

 general as poffible. But as it is of a 

 more extenfive nature, than any other 

 before eftablifhed, it doth require fome 

 particular rules and reftridlions relating 

 to the infpedlion, ufe and fecurity there- 

 of, fbkec: to the nature of its inftitution • 

 the different quality of the things, of 

 which it confifts ; and fuch attendance 

 of the Officers, as may be juftly ex- 

 pe6led from them. Therefore the 

 Truftees of the Britifli Mufeum, at a 

 General Meeting affembled, do hereby 

 make, conftitute, and eftablifh the Sta- 

 tutes, Rulesj and Ordinances following, 

 viz. 



