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think necessary or useful, as also the entire management and superin- 

 tendence of all the other affairs of the said Society, and shall and may, 

 but not inconsistently with or contrary to the provisions of this our 

 Charter, or any existing bye-law, or the laws and statutes of this our 

 realm, do all such acts and deeds as shall appear to them necessary 

 for carrying into effect the objects and views of the said body politic 

 and cor] orate. 



Provided always, and we do will and declare that the Council 

 shall, from time to time, render to a General Meeting a full account 

 of their proceedings, and that every Fellow of the Society may at all 

 reasonable times, to be fixed by the said Council, see and examine the 

 accounts of the receipts and payments of the said body politic and 

 corporate. 



And we further will, grant, and declare that the whole property 

 of the said body politic and corporate shall be vested, and we do hereby 

 vest the same, solely and absolutely in the Fellows thereof, and that 

 they shall have full power and authority to sell, alienate, charge, and 

 otherwise dispose of the same as they shall think proper, but that no 

 sale, mortgage, incumbrance, or other disposition of any messuages, 

 lands, tenements, or hereditaments belonging to the said body politic 

 and corporate shall be made, except with the approbation and con- 

 currence of a General Meeting. 



And we lastly declare it to be our Eoyal will and pleasure 

 that no resolution or bye-law shall, on any account or pretence what- 

 soever, be made by the said body politic and corporate, in opposition 

 to the general scope, true intent, and meaning of this our Charter, or 

 the Laws or Statutes of our Kealm : And that if any such rule or 

 bye-law shall be made, the same shall be absolutely null and void to 

 all intents, effects, constructions and purposes whatsoever. 



In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to 

 be made Patent. 



Witness ourself, at our Palace at Westminster, this twenty- 

 eighth day of August in the thirtieth year of our reign. 



By Her Majesty's Command. 



(Signed) CAKDEW. 



