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Acts and Votes, S$c. 
into the said General Repository, should re* 
main and be preserved therein, for publick 
Use, to all Posterity : And whereas the said 
Collections have been greatly increased by 
considerable Donations from his Majesty, 
and the Gifts of several Noblemen and 
others; and it is probable that great Addi- 
tions will hereafter be made thereto : And 
whereas there are now, and there may here- 
after be, in the various Departments of the 
British Museum, many Duplicates of printed 
Books, Medals, Coins, and other Curiosities, 
which it would be proper to dispose of, in 
order to make Room for others : May it 
therefore please Your most Excellent Ma- 
jesty, that it may be enacted ; and be it 
enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma- 
jesty, by and with the Advice and Consent 
of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and 
Commons, in this present Parliament assem- 
Five ormctfe bled, and by the Authority of the same, That 
Trustees are J 
impoweredto shall and may be lawful to and for the said 
order any Du- 
pikatesof Trustees, and their Successors, or any Five or 
printed Books, ' J 
^ d tobe C «f' more of them, at any Meeting assembled, 
Manuscripts, an d they are hereby authorized and im- 
powered, from Time to Time, and at all 
Times hereafter, to order any Duplicates of 
