ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION. 



those who now are or shall hereafter become members of the said 

 Society, our Royal Charter of Incorporation, for the purpose aforesaid. 



Now know ye 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, will, grant and declare that the said William 

 E. Logan, John O. Browne, Frederick Passmore, Kivas Tully, William 

 Thomas, Thomas Ridout, Sandford Fleming, and such others of our 

 loving subjects as now are members of the said Society, or shall at any 

 time hereafter become members thereof according to such regulations or 

 by-laws as shall be hereafter framed or enacted, shall by virtue of these 

 presents be the members of, and form one body politic and corporate for 

 the purposes aforesaid, by the name of " The Canadian Institute," by 

 which name they shall have perpetual succession 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, implead, 

 and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in every court of us^ 

 our heirs and successors, and be forever capable in the law to purchase, 

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

 chattels whatsoever, and also to be able and capable in law (notwith- 

 standing the Statutes of Mortmain) to take, purchase, possess, hold and 

 enjoy, to them and their successors, a Hall or House, and any Mes- 

 suages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whatsoever, the yearly value 

 of which, including the site of the said Hall, shall not exceed in the whole 

 the sum of Two thousand pounds, computing the same respectively at the 

 rack rent which might have been had or gotten for the same respectively 

 at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof, and to act in all the 

 concerns of the said body politic and corporate for the purposes afore- 

 said as fully and effectually, to all intents, effects, constructions and 

 purposes whatsoever, as any other of our liege subjects or any other body 

 politic or corporate in our said Province of Canada, not being under any 

 disability, might do in their respective concerns. 



And we do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all 

 and every person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, otherwise 

 competent, to grant, sell, alien, and convey in Mortmain unto and to the 

 use of the said Society and their successors any Messuages, Lands, 

 Tenements, or Hereditaments, not exceeding such annual value as afore- 

 said. And our will and pleasure is, and we further grant and declare, that 

 there shall be a General Meeting of the Members of the said body 

 politic and corporate, to be held from time to time as hereinafter 

 mentioned, and that there shall always be a Council to direct and manage 

 the concerns of the said body politic and corporate, and that the general 



