27 Georgii II. 
assembled, whereof the Archbishop of Can* 
terbury, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper, 
and the Speaker of the House ,of Commons, 
shall be Three, shall, in such Manner as they 
shall think fit, elect and nominate Fifteen 
other Persons to be associated to them in 
the Executions of the Trusts thereby in 
them reposed ; and when any of the Trustees 
so elected and nominated shall die, shall in 
like Manner elect and nominate a fit Person 
or Persons to supply the Place or Places of 
him or them so dying, and so to ties quoties, 
as any of the said Trustees so elected and 
nominated, or others so elected and nomi- 
nated to supply their Places, shall happen to 
die: And whereas the Powers and Authorities 
given to the whole Body of the Trustees of 
the British Museum, by the said Act incor- 
porated, are thereby limited to be exercised 
by them, or the major Part of them, at any 
General Meeting assembled : And whereas 
it may happen that the said Archbishop of 
Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, or Lord 
Keeper, and the Speaker of the House of 
Commons, may be hindered by Indisposition 
or Avocation, from being all of them present 
at such Elections of Trustees.; and it may 
