Wellington Museum. [H.L.] A bill [as amended in the select committee] intituled an act to transfer to the Crown Apsley House and the site, forecourt and garden thereof and certain chattels formerly belonging to the First Duke of Wellington; to provide for the use of Apsley House partly as a museum for the preservation and exhibition of the said chattels and other chattels associated with the said first duke or his times and for other public purposes, and partly as a residence for the dukes of Wellington; to amend the enactments relating to the Wellington estates, so as to provide for the automatic devolution of the property subject to the trusts thereof whenever there is a change in the person holding office as first lord of the Treasury, chancellor of the Exchequer or speaker of the House of Commons; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid [electronic resource].