Charter of Incorporation. 9 



In the year 1912 tlie Eight Hon. Earl Grey accepted the office of President 

 in succession to H.E.H. the Duke of Connaught, who was graciously pleased to 

 become Vice-Patron. 



In September 1882 Her Majesty the Queen granted to the Institute a Koyal Charter 

 of Incorporation, with perpetual succession and a common seal, in recognition of the 

 fact that since its estabhshment it had " sedulously pursued the objects for which it 

 was founded," and with a desire of " encouraging a design so laudable and salutary." 



The national importance of imparting to the rising generation a fuller and more 

 accurate knowledge of the British Dominions and their resources has from its found- 

 ation engaged the attention of the Institute, and every opportunity has been taken 

 to urge upon educational authorities and other public bodies the need of giving greater 

 prominence to the subject in the schools of the United Kingdom. A gold medal for 

 research work, accompanied by a substantial honorarium, is offered by the Goimcil 

 annually to British subjects in all parts of the world, for the purpose of 

 encouraging scientific study of the problems of Imperial Union. A series of prizes 

 for essays has also been instituted as a means of stimulating the interest of 

 students in the secondary schools and universities of the Mother Country in *he 

 history and potentialities of the Empire. 



The Institute has never ceased to emphasise the fact that the Overseas Dominions 

 afford a national outlet for the surplus population and capital of the Mother Country, 

 and committees now deal with the questions of emigration and Empire trade and 

 industry, their special functions being set forth in a separate section of this work. The 

 education of the people of the Motherland as to the resources, trade, history and 

 development of the Empire has been taken in^hand by a special committee, and lectures 

 are now being given in various parts of the United Kingdom with excellent results. 

 In accordance with the objects for which the Institute was founded, it has for the 

 past forty-four years taken a leading part in the national work of fostering and popular- 

 ising the great principle of Imperial Solidarity throughout the length and breadth of 

 the British Empire. 



IV.— ROYAL CHARTER. 



GRANT 



UNTO THE 



ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE 



OF 



HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION, 



DATED 26th SEPTEMBER, 1882. 



IDiCtOllH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, ITO all tO WbOlH these 

 Presents shall come Greeting. 



'H'dlbCVCnS His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., 

 and His Grace the Duke of Manchester, K.P., have by their Petition humbly 

 represented to Us that they are respectively the President and Chairman of the 

 Council of a Society estabhshed in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty- 

 eight, and called by Our Royal Authority the Royal Colonial Institute, the objects of 



