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hereby given to the Trustees herein-before 
first named and described. 
And be it enacted by the Authority afore- A general 
said, That within the Cities of London Or be provided for 
the Reception 
Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof, One ofsw* 
Museum, the 
General Repository shall be erected or pro- CottonianLi- 
r J 1 brary, Harleian, 
vided in such convenient Place, and in such Manuscripts, 
7 and Edwards £ 
Manner, as the Trustees hereby appointed, Adduions - 
or the major Part of them, at a General 
Meeting assembled, shall direct, for the Re- 
ception, not only of the said Museum, or 
Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, but also of the 
Cottontail Library, and of the Additions which 
have been or shall be made thereunto, by 
virtue of the last Will and Testament of the 
said Arthur Edwards, and likewise of the said 
Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and of 
such other Additions to the Cottonian Library, 
as with the Approbation of the Trustees by 
this Act appointed, or the major Part of them, 
at a General Meeting assembled, shall be 
made thereunto, in Manner herein-after men- 
tioned, and of such other Collections and 
Libraries as with the like Approbation shall 
be admitted into the said General Repository; 
which several Collections, Additions, and 
Library so received into the said General 
