Acts and Votes, 8§c. • 
Ordered, 
That the said Petition be referred to the 
Consideration of a Committee, and that they do 
examine the Matter thereon, and report the same 
as it shall appear to them, together with their 
Observations and Opinion thereof, to the House. 
Veneris, 10° Die Julii, 1807. 
The Committee reported that the Manu- 
scripts belonging to the late Marquis of Lans- 
dow?i, would form a most valuable Addition to 
the Collection of Manuscripts already deposited 
in the British Museum ; and that the Sum of 
Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five 
Pounds, being the average Sum at which the 
said Manuscripts have been valued by Persons 
competent to form a Judgment of their Value, 
and at which the Trustees to the Will of the 
said Marquis of Lansdown have offered the said 
Manuscripts to the Public, is a reasonable Price 
for the Purchase of the same. 
Sabbati, 18° Die Julii, I8O7. 
Resolved, 
That a Sum, not exceeding Four Thou- 
sand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five Pounds, be 
granted to His Majesty, to enable the Trustees 
