ACTS AND VOTES, &c. 
26 GEORGII II. REGIS. 
An Act for the Purchase of the Museum, or 
Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the 
Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and for 
providing One General Repository for the 
better Reception and more convenient Use of 
the said Collections ; and of the Cottonian 
Library, and of the Additions thereto. 
Whereas Sir Hans Sloane of Chelsea, in Preamble, re- 
citing the Co- 
the County of Middlesex Baronet, having, . w fii 'of^sir 
through the Course of many Years, with Hans sloane ' 
great Labour and Expence, gathered together 
whatever could be procured either in our 
own or foreign Countries, that was rare and 
curious, did, by a Codicil bearing Date the 
Twentieth Day of July in the Year of our 
Lord One thousand seven hundred and forty- 
nine, and annexed to his last Will and 
