An Act to enable the Trustees of the British Museum to accept a certain bequest made to them by the late Lord Rothschild; and for purposes connected therewith.
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
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Power of Trustees to accept Lord Rothschild's bequest.1 Power of Trustees to accept Lord Rothschild's bequest.
1. Whereas by a codicil, the material parts of which are set out in the Schedule to this Act, the second Baron Rothschild bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum, on certain conditions, certain lands and buildings at Tring (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tring Museum’) and certain collections and objects which he had assembled thereat:
Now therefore—
(1) The Trustees shall have, and be deemed always to have had, power to accept the said bequest and give effect to the said conditions; and
(2) If the Trustees accept the said bequest, the said collections shall thereupon become collections belonging to the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, and any of the various specimens from time to time comprised in any of the collections of those Departments may be kept either at the Tring Museum or at the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, as the Trustees may determine.
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2. This Act may be cited as theBritish Museum Act, 1938.
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Baron Rothschild.Extract from Codicil to the Will of the second
Whereas in a former will I left to various museums and institutions a number of specimens from my zoological collection in my museum at Tring Park, I now revoke all these bequests and I give and bequeath to the Trustees of the British Museum my freehold property known as the Zoological Museum, Tring, inclusive of all the collections and all the objects it contains, as well as the garden in front of the Museum at the other side of Park Street and the house in Akeman Street now used as a laboratory, provided that the Trustees of the...
