British Museum Act 1878
An Act to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to remove portions of their Collections. [13th August 1878.] WHEREAS the British Museum was established and the management thereof vested in a corporate body of Trustees by virtue of an Act passed in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter twenty-two, and intituled "An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one general ...