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7 GEORGIL III. REGIS. 
CAP. XVIIL 
An Act to enable the Trustees of the British 
Museum to exchange, sell, or dispose of, any 
Duplicates of printed Books, Medals, Coins, 
or other Curiosities ; and for laying out the 
Money arising by such Sale, in the Purchase 
of other Things that may be 'wanting in, or 
proper for, the said Museum* 
Wh ereas bv an Act of Parliament passed 
Preamble. ^ J 1 
in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of 
his late Majesty King George the Second, in- 
titled, An Act for the Purchase of the Mu- 
seum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of 
the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and 
for better providing One General Repository jor 
the better Reception, and more convenient Use, 
of the said Collection, and of the Cottonian 
