Excerpt from The Law Relating to Public Libraries and Museums: And Literary and Scientific Institutions The first Act which received the sanction of the Legislature was 8 85 9 Vict. 43, passed in 1845. It related to Museums only, and, being very concise in its provisions, may be sup posed not to have answered the purpose of its promoters, for in 1850 it was repealed by 13 85 14 Vict. 65, which took its place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.