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Acts and Votes, &fc\ 
Suburbs thereof, one General Repository 
should be erected and provided for the Re- 
ception of the Collections and Libraries 
therein mentioned, and of such other Collec- 
tions and Libraries as, with the like Appro- 
bation, should be admitted into the same, 
which several Collections, Additions, and 
Libraries so received into the said General 
Repository, should remain and be preserved 
therein for public Use to all Posterity : 
Purchase of the And whereas, under the Provisions of an 
British Museum. 
Act of the Twenty-eighth Year of his late 
Majesty King George the Second, intituled, 
An Act for "vesting Montagu House in Trustees 
and their Heirs, freed and discharged from all 
the Estates, Uses, and Agreements to which it 
at present stands limited and appointed upon 
Trust, to convey the same to the Trustees of the 
British Museum for a General Repository, and 
upon such other Trusts as therein are mentioned; 
the capital Messuage or Mansion House here- 
tofore called Montagu House, situate in Great 
Russell Street, in the Parish of Saint George 
Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, and 
the Outhouses, Buildings, and Gardens be- 
longing to the same, were duly conveyed and 
assured unto and to the Use of the Trustees 
