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served essentially to illustrate the antique sculp- 
tures purchased in the year 1805 ; the House of 
Commons, upon the representation of the Trus- 
tees of the Museum as to its utility, and upon 
the estimate of men, well acquainted with objects 
of this nature, as to their value, granted in the 
last Session of Parliament, the sum of ^8,200 
for this purpose, and caused this important ac- 
quisition to be restored to the collection to which 
it had originally belonged. 
It having lone been a subject of complaint Privik s° res = 
o o J * pecting the 
that the provisions of the Acts 8 Ann, c. 1Q, and supply of new 
1 Books enforced, 
41 Geo. III. c. lOf, respecting the delivery of 
copies of new publications to certain libraries, 
were not duly complied with, a new bill was 
brought into the House of Commons, and passed 
into an act on the 29th of July last, which en- 
joins all authors and publishers under certain 
penalties, to deliver into the warehouse of Sta- 
tioner's Hall, a copy, on the best paper on which 
the edition shall be printed, of every work which 
they shall publish after the above date, which 
copy shall be deposited in the Library of the 
British Museum. 
2.— ADDITIONS MADE BY THE TRUST. 
Thus far have we commemorated the muni- 
ficence of our late and present most gracious 
d 2 Sovereigns 
