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Acts and Votes, 8$c. 
also happen that the major Part of the whole 
Number of the Trustees of the British Mu- 
seum cannot conveniently be present at every 
General Meeting of the said Trustees ; be it 
enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That 
Elections of every such Election of a Trustee, at which 
which the* the said Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord 
Canterbury^ Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, and the Speaker 
lord Chancel- * ■ 
lor, Lord of the House of Commons, or any Two of 
Keeper, and 
speaker of the them shall be present, shall be as valid and 
House of Com- 
S°tiem r $ha« e ff ectua l to a ^ Intents and Purposes what- 
Ue present, SO ever, as if the said Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, 
and the Speaker of the House of Commons, 
were all of them present ; and that the Acts 
and Orders made by the major Part of such 
Number of the said Trustees, as shall be pre- 
and ail Acts sent at any such General Meeting, so as 
done by Seven . 
Trustees Seven or the said Irustees at the least be 
deemed valid. 
there present, shall have the same and the 
like Force and Effect, as if such Acts and 
Orders were made by the major Part of the 
whole Number of the said Trustees ; any 
thing in the said Act, or any Law, to the 
contrary thereof in any wise notwithstand- 
ing. 
