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motion, willed, granted, and declared ; and we do by these 

 presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, will, grant, and de- 

 clare, that our said Right Trusty and Well-beloved Councillor, 

 Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, and such others of our loving 

 subjects, as have formed themselves into, and are now members 

 of the said Society, and all such other persons as shall hereafter 

 become members of the said Society, according to such regula- 

 lations or bye-laws, as shall be hereafter formed or enacted, shall, 

 by virtue of these presents, be the members of, and form one 

 body politic and corporate, by the name of *' The Moyal Asiatic 

 Society of Great Britain and Ireland ;" 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, and answer and be answered unto, in every 

 court of us, our heirs, and successors ; and be for ever able and 

 capable in the law, to purchase, receive, possess, and enjoy, to 

 them and their successors, any goods and chattels whatsoever : 

 and also be able and capable in the law (notwithstanding the 

 statutes of mortmain) to take, purchase, possess, hold, and enjoy, 

 to them and their successors, a Hall or College, and any mes- 

 suages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever, the yearly 

 value of which, including the site of the said Hall or College, 

 shall not exceed in the whole the sum of one 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 aforesaid, 

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