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APPENDIX A. 



MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION. 



The name of the Association is " THE INCOBPOBATED KEW COMMITTEE OF 



ROYAL SOCIETY." 



The registered office of the Association will be situate in England. 



The objects for which the Association is established are: 



1. The administration, under the direction of the Royal Society, of so much 

 as shall be paid to them of the income of the Trust Fund founded by 



r. GASSIOT for maintaining the Kew Observatory and carrying on the mag- 

 netic, meteorological, and other physical observations there, but the Royal 

 Society is not to be responsible for the acts or omissions of the Association, or 

 for the Application of the income of the said Trust Fund when paid over to the 

 Association, or for the misapplying of such income or for any debts or liabilities 

 which may be incurred by the Association. 



2. The maintenance and the management of an Institution for the supply, 

 examination, and testing of instruments for scientific and other purposes, 

 and the investigation and application of methods of measurement and obser- 

 vation. 



3. The doing all such lawful things as are incidental or conducive to the 

 attainment of the above objects. 



The income and property of the Association, whencesoever derived, shall be 

 applied solely towards the promotion of the objects of the Association as set forth 

 in this Memorandum of Association ; and no portion thereof shall be paid or 

 transferred directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever 

 by way of profit, to the Members of the Association. 



Provided that nothing herein shall prevent the payment, in good faith, of 

 remuneration to any officers or servants of the Association, or to any Member of 

 the Association, or other person, in return for any services actually rendered to the 

 Association. 



5. The fourth paragraph of this Memorandum is a condition on which a licence 

 is granted by the Board of Trade to the Association in pursuance of Section 23 of 

 the Companies Act, 1 867. 



6. If any Member of the Association pays or receives any dividend, bonus, or 

 other profit, in contravention of the terms of the fourth paragraph of this 

 Memorandum, his liability shall be unlimited. 



7. Every Member of the Association undertakes to contribute to the assets of 

 I the Association, in the event of the same being wound up during the time that he 



is a Member, or within one year afterwards, for payment of the debts and liabilities 

 of the Association contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a Member, 

 and of the costs, charges, and expenses of winding up the same, and for the adjust- 

 ment of the rights of the contributories amongst themselves, such amount as may 

 i be required not exceeding one pound, or in case of his liability becoming unlimited, 

 such other amount as may be required in pursuance of the last- preceding paragraph 

 of this Memorandum. 



8. If upon the winding up or dissolution of the Association there remains, after 

 the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, the same 

 shall not be paid to or distributed among the Members of the Association, but shall 

 ^e given or transferred to the President and Council of the Royal Society, and on 

 any winding up the Association shall consent to the appointment of any liquidator 

 who may be nominated by the said President and Council. 



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