CHARTER OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. XI 



liabilities and obligations, any property whatsoever, the sum 

 shall not be paid to or distributed among the members of 

 the Association or any of them, but shall (subject to any 

 special trusts affecting the same) be given and transferred to 

 some other society or societies having objects similar to the 

 objects of the Association to be determined by the General 

 Committee at or before the time of dissolution or in default 

 thereof by a Judge of the Chancery Division of Our High 

 Court of Justice. 



14. The Council of the Association shall provide for the 

 safe custody of the Common Seal thereof which shall never 

 be used except by the authority of the Council previously 

 given and in the presence of two members of the Council 

 who shall sign every instrument to which the Seal is affixed. 



15. And We do hereby for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, 

 Grant and Declare that these Our Letters Patent or the 

 enrolment or exemplification thereof shall be in all things 

 good, firm, valid and effectual according to the true intent 

 and meaning of the same and shall be taken, construed and 

 adjudged in all Our Courts or elsewhere in the most favour- 

 able and beneficial sense and for the best advantage of the 

 Association, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, defect, 

 imperfection, matter or thing whatsoever notwithstanding. 



3-n MitnesS whereof We have caused these Our Letters 

 to be made Patent. 



MitneSS Ourself at Westminster the twenty-first day 

 of April in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine 

 hundred and twenty-eight and in the eighteenth year of 

 Our Reign. 



3B^ Marrant under The King's Sign Manual. 



Schuster 



SEAL 



