Acts and Votes, 8$c. 
titioners are unable to proceed in the Execu- 
tion of so necessary a Work, which, upon the 
most exact Computation cannot be completed 
at a less Expence than Sixteen thousand 
Pounds, without the Public Aid, they submit 
the whole Matter to the Wisdom and Muni- 
ficence of Parliament, conceiving that they 
should be wanting to the Public in the Exe- 
cution of the Trust with which they have 
been invested, if they omitted to represent 
these Circumstances, in confidence that an 
Institution so honourable to this Country, 
will never fail to receive the Support of the 
Legislature. 
Ordered, 
That the said Petition do lie upon the 
Table. 
Ordered, 
That the Plan and Estimate referred to in 
the said Petition be laid before the House. 
Martis, 3° Die Julij, 1804. 
The House being informed that Mr. Planta 
from the Trustees of the British Museum, 
attended at the Door, he was called in, and 
at the Bar presented to the House pursuant 
to their Orders, 
