7 Georgii III. 
Library, and of the Additions thereto ; it is, 
amongst other Things, enacted, that within 
the Cities of London or Westminster, or the 
Suburbs thereof, One General Repository 
should be erected or provided in such conve- 
nient Place, and in such Manner, as the 
Trustees thereby appointed, or the major 
Part of them, at a General Meeting assem- 
bled, should direct, for the Reception not 
only of the said Museum, or Collection of 
Sir Hans Sloane, but also of the Cottonian Li* 
brary, and of the Additions which had been 
or should be made thereto, by virtue of the 
last Will and Testament of Arthur Edwards, 
Esquire, in the said Act named, and likewise 
of the said Harleian Collection of Manu- 
scripts, and of such other Additions to the 
said Cottonian Library as, with the Approba- 
tion of the Trustees by the said Act ap* 
pointed, or the major Part of them, at a Ge- 
neral Meeting assembled, should be made 
thereunto, in Manner therein-after men- 
tioned ; and of such other Collections and 
Libraries as, with the like Approbation, 
should be admitted into the said General 
Repository ; and that the said several Col- 
lections, Additions, and Library, so received 
