REPORT. 
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present application, but lias conferred a general benefit, by 
allowing similar favours to be dispensed to Scientific and 
Charitable Institutions, in every part of the kingdom. 
As soon as the Bill had passed, a warrant was issued by the 
Treasury, for making out the Grant; and the Surveyor for 
the Crown received directions to assign to the Society, the 
ground for which it had applied. The draft of the Grant has 
been since transmitted from the Land Revenue Office; the 
best opinions have been taken on the Society’s part, upon the 
particulars of the conveyance; it has again passed through the 
hands of the legal advisers of the Crown, and now only wants 
the Sign Manual for its final completion. * 
On being informed that the warrant for the Grant was 
signed, the Subcommittee to whose care the concerns of the 
Building had been entrusted, anxious to obtain the opinion of 
the County on the measures w hich they proposed to adopt, 
summoned a meeting of the General Committee, and submitted 
to them the plans and estimates which they had procured. 
The Report which was made on that occasion has been 
printed; ^ and it may be sufficient to refer to it, for an explana¬ 
tion of the principles on which the new Museum has been 
designed. These principles w^ere acceded to by the General 
Committee; and the design was adopted. Unanimous ap¬ 
probation was bestowed upon the simple and noble elevation 
proposed for the Front, and the spacious and commodious 
arrangements planned for the Interior of the Building, 
^ Since the Annual Meeting, the Sign Manual has been obtained, 
® See Appendix, page 31. 
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