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respectively aforesaid, and in order that the same and the objects objects of 

 thereof may, so far as regards the said Society, be fully carried *||^ ^ 

 into effect, it is necessary or expedient that the constitution of 

 the said Society should- be in some respects altered, and that 

 the powers of the said Society should be enlarged, and it is also 

 represented to Us that the usefulness of the said Society would 

 be increased thereby, and that the said Society hath consented 

 thereto. Therefore We have been besought to grant unto the 

 persons now composing the Horticultural Society of London, 

 and such other persons as shall be approved of and elected as 

 hereinafter mentioned. Our Royal Charter of incorporation for the 

 purposes aforesaid, and with and under such powers and direc- 

 tions as hereinafter mentioned. And it is Our will and pleasure 

 that such Society shall henceforth be called " The Royal Horti- 



6. Now know ye, that We, being desirous of promoting the incorpora- 

 objects of the said Society, and of increasing the usefulness *«>» ^^^^ 

 thereof, have, of Our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere tht™preseni 

 motion, given and granted, and we do hereby give and grant. Society, anc 

 That Our right, trusty, and well-beloved Cousin Henry John, Earl all Mem- 

 Ducie, Fellow of the Royal Society; Charles Richard, I^ord ^^^^jj^^g^® 

 Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the and elected 

 Garter; John Jackson Blandy, John Glutton, Charles Wentworth asherein- 

 Dilke the younger, Charles Edmonds, Septimus Holmes Godson, tion^!*!^ 

 Henry Thomas Hope, John Lee, Henry Pownail, James Veitch confima- 

 the younger, and Robert Wrench, (being respectively some of the tio^^of the 

 persons now composing the Horticultural Society of London,) g^J^jg^yf 

 and all other persons now (with the persons respectively herein- 

 before named) being Fellows or Members of the said Society, 

 and such others as from time to time shall be appointed and 

 elected in the manner hereinafter directed, and their successors, 

 be and shall for ever hereafter continue and be, by virtue of 

 these presents, one body politic and corporate, by the name of 

 " The Royal Horticultural Society ; " and them and their sue- Corporate 

 cessors, for the purposes for which the Horticultural Society of "-'^"6. 

 London was incorporated by the same Letters Patent, and with 

 and subject to such additions and modifications to or in the same 

 purposes as appear in and by or flow from, or are consequent 

 on, the said arrangement between the said Commissioners and 

 the said Society, and the said Articles of Agreement of the 24th 

 day of July, I860, and of the 20th day of November, 1860, 

 and of the 1st day of March, 1861, respectively. We do hereby 



