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MEMOIR OF 
at Paris, sent over French artists for erecting and 
adorning the edifice lie had in contemplation. 
This palace, together with its gardens and 
appurtenances, occupying in the whole an area of 
seven acres and twenty perches of land, was ceded 
by the representatives of the Montague family for 
the moderate sum of £10,000. The necessary 
repairs (which, the house having stood long 
empty, proved very expensive) were immediately 
proceeded upon ; and the proper bookcases and 
cabinets having been completed, and the collec- 
tions removed thither, the museum was at length 
opened for study and public inspection, January 
15, 1759- The sum actually netted by the profits 
of the lottery under the Act of Parliament, was 
£95,194, 18s. 2d. which was expended in the 
following manner : — 
Paid for the Sloancan collection, . £20,000 0 0 
for the Harleian, . . 10,000 0 0 
for Montague House, . . 10,000 0 0 
Laid out in the purchase of £30,000, 
three per cent reduced annuities, &c. 
appropriated to the maintenance of 
the establishment, . . 28,663 15 0 
Repairs, cases, furniture, removing, and 
incidental expenses, . . 26,531 3 2 
£95,194 18 2 
