Charter of Incorporation. 9 



year 1909, in view of the great extension of the work of the Institute, it was decided to 

 revive the office of Chairman of the Council, Lieut.-General Sir J. Bevan Edwards, 

 K.C.B., K.C.M.G., being unanimously elected to that office, and Sir Godfrey Lagden, 

 K.C.M.G., to the office of Deputy Chairman. 



In the year 1912 the Right Hon. Earl Grey accepted the office of President in 

 succession to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught, who was graciously pleased to become 

 Vice-Patron. 



In September 1882 Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted to the Institute a Royal 

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

 of the fact that since its establishment it had " sedulously pursued the objects for 

 which it was founded," and with a desire of " encouraging a design so laudable and 

 salutary." 



For the past forty-six years the Institute has taken a leading part in the national 

 work of fostering and popularising 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. 



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

 Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, XTO SU tO WbOTtl these 

 Presents shall come Greeting. 



IKUbCrCHS His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., 

 and His Grace the DukS 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 established in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and 

 called by Our Royal Authority the Royal Colonial Institute, the objects of 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 public advantage if We 

 granted to His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, K.G., William 

 Drogo Montagu, Duke of Manchester, K.P., and the other Fellows of the said 

 Society, Our Royal Charter of Incorporation : 



HU& WbCtCaS 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 



