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which Society are in various ways, and in particular by means of a place of Meeting, 

 Library and Museum, and by reading papers, holding discussions, and undertaking 

 scientific and other inquiries, as in the said Petition mentioned, to promote the 

 increase and diffusion of knowledge respecting as well Our Colonies, Dependencies and 

 Possessions, as Our Indian Empire, and the preservation of a permanent union between 

 the Mother Country and the various parts of the British Empire, and that it would 

 enable the said objects to be more effectually attained, and would be for the pubhc 

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

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

 of the said Society, Our Royal Charter of Incorporation : 



Hub WbCrCHS 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, literary, statistical, and other inquiries 

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



IROW I^UOW pC 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 DO by these presents for Us, Our heirs and successors, mil, 

 grant and declare in manner folloA\ang, that is to say : — 



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

 Duke of Manchester, and such other of Our Lo^^ng 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 poUtic 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 Ejngdom, not being under any disability, might do in their 

 respective concerns. 



2. XTbe IRO^al Colonial institute (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 ezceed in the whole the sum of Ten 

 Thousand Pounds. Hub WC bO hereby grant Our especial Licence and authority 

 unto aU and every person and persons, bodies pohtic and corporate (otherA^dse 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. 



