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advantage if We granted to His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince op Wales, 

 K.G., William Drogo Montagu, Duke op Manchester, K.P., and the other Fellows 

 of the said Society, Our Royal Charter of Incorporation. 



Hn& WbCCCSS it has been represented to Us that the said Society has, since its 

 establishment, sedulously pursued the objects for which it was founded by collecting 

 and diffusing information ; by publishing a Journal of Transactions ; by collecting a 

 Library of Works relating to the British Colonies, Dependencies and Possessions, and 

 to India ; by forming a Museum of Colonial and Indian productions and manufactures, 

 and by undertaking from time to time scientific, hterary, statistical, and other inquiries 

 relating to Colonial and Indian Matters, and publishing the results thereof. 



IROVV I^UOW ^C that We, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable and 

 salutary, of Our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, have willed, 

 granted and declared, and ^0 by these presents for Us, Our heirs and successors, will, 

 grant and declare in manner following, that is to say : — 



1. His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and His Grace the 

 Duke op Manchester, and such other of Our Loving Subjects as now are Fellows of 

 the said Society, or shall from time to time be duly admitted Fellows thereof, and their 

 successors, are hereby constituted, and shall for ever hereafter be by virtue of these 

 presents one body politic and corporate by the name of the Royal Colonial Institute, 

 and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid, shall have perpetual succes- 

 sion and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew 

 the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued in every Court 

 of Us, Our heirs and successors, and be for ever able and capable in the law to purchase, 

 receive, possess, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, any goods and chattels 

 whatsoever, and to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate as 

 effectually for all purposes as any other of Our liege subjects, or any other body politic 

 or corporate in the United Kingdom, not being under any disability, might do in their 

 respective concerns. 



2. XTbe IRO^al Colonial 3-U3titUtC (in this Charter hereinafter called the 

 Institute) may, notwithstanding the statutes of mortmain, take, purchase, hold and 

 enjoy to them and their successors a Hall, or House, and any such messuages or here- 

 ditaments of any tenure as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of the 

 Institute, but so that the yearly value thereof to be computed at the rack rent which 

 might be gotten for the same at the time of the purchase or other acquisition, and 

 including the site of the said Hall, or House, do not exceed in the whole the sum of Ten 

 Thousand Pounds. H^^ \VC ^0 hereby grant Our especial Licence and authority 

 unto all and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate (otherwise com- 

 petent), to grant, sell, alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the Institute 

 and their successors any messuages or hereditaments not exceeding the annual value 

 aforesaid. 



3. TTbCVC shall be a Council of the Institute, and the said Council and General 

 Meetings of the Fellows to be held in accordance with this Our Charter shall, subject 

 to the provisions of this Our Charter, have the entire management and direction of the 

 concerns of the Institute. 



4. XTbCVC shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, and a Secretary of 

 the Institute. The Council shall consist of the President, Vice-Presidents, and not 

 less than twenty Councillors ; and the Secretary, if honorary. 



