ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF "THE 



CANADIAN INSTITUTE," GRANTED 4TH 



NOVEMBER, 1851. 



PROVINCE OF CANADA. — ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. 



Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. &c. 



To all to ivhoin these presents shall come, greeting. 



Whereas Wilham E. Logan, John O. Browne, Frederick F. Passmore, 

 Kivas Tully, Wilham Thomas, Thomas Ridout, Sandford Fleming, and 

 others of our loving subjects in our Province of Canada, have formed 

 themselves into a Society for the encouragement and general advance- 

 ment of the Physical Sciences, the Arts and Manufactures, in this part 

 of our Dominions ; and more particularly for promoting the acquisition 

 of those branches of Knowledge which are connected with the Profes- 

 sions of Surveying, Engineering, and Architecture : being the Arts of 

 opening up the Wilderness and preparing the country for the pursuits of 

 the Agriculturist, of adjusting with accuracy the boundaries of Properties, 

 of improving and adorning our Cities and the habitations of our subjects, 

 and otherwise smoothing the path of Civilization ; and also being the 

 Arts of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and 

 convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic both for 

 external and internal trade, and materially advancing the development 

 of the Resources and of the Industrial Productions and Commerce of the 

 Country ; and have commenced the formation of a Museum for collec- 

 tions of Models and Drawings of Machines and Constructions, New 

 Inventions and Improvements, Geological and Mineralogical Specimens, 

 and whatever may be calculated, either as Natural Productions or Speci- 

 mens of Art, to promote the purposes of Science and the general interests 

 of society, and have subscribed and collected certain sums of money for 

 these purposes. 



And whereas, in order to secure the property of the said Society and 

 to extend its useful operations and at the same time to give it a more 

 permanent establishment among the Literary and Scientific Institutions 

 of this part of our Dominions, we have been besought to grant to the 

 said William E. Logan, John O. Browne, Frederick F. Passmore, Kivas 

 Tully, William Thomas, Thomas Ridout, Sandford Fleming, and to 



