45 Georgii III* 
Trustees for the Time being of the said 
British Museum, and their Successors in per- 
petuity for the Purposes of the said Act of 
the Twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His 
late Majesty King George the Second, ab- 
solutely freed and discharged from all the 
Trusts, Powers, Provisoes, and Declarations, 
expressed or contained of or concerning the 
same by or in the said Will and Codicil of the 
said Charles Townley: 
And be it hereby further Enacted, That 
the said Collection shall be preserved and 
kept together in the said British Museum 
whole and intire, and distinguished by the 
Name or Appellation of the Townleian Col- 
lection ; 
And be it Enacted by the Authority afore- 
said, That the said Edward Townley Standish 
shall be associated to the Trustees for the 
time being of the British Museum, in the 
Execution of the Trusts reposed in them by 
the said recited Act ; And that upon the 
Decease of the said Edward Townley Standish 
it shall be lawful for his Sons severally, suc- 
cessively, and in remainder one after another, 
as they respectively shall be in seniority of 
Age and Priority of Birth, and the Heirs of 
