APPEXDIX. 



v.— NEW CHARTER AND AGREEMENTS OP THE ROYAL 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great 

 Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to all to 

 whom these presents shall come. Greeting : 



First inoor- 1. WHEREAS THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF LoHBON, hereinafter 



poration of 



the Society refciTcd to as " the said Society," was incorporated by Royal Letters Patent 



by Letters «/ ./ 



Patent, 49 uiider the Great Seal of om- said United Kingdom, bearing date at West- 

 minster the 17th day of April in the 49th year of the reign of His late 

 Majesty King George the Thu-d, for the purpose of the improvement of 

 Horticulture in all its branches, ornamental as well as useful. 

 First 2. And whereas it has been represented to Us, that the said Society has 



between the scdulously pursucd and successfully promoted the objects for which it was 

 sioners of incorporated : And it has been also represented to Us that, with the view ot 

 hitionof still further promoting such objects, an aiTangement was lately entered into 

 the Society, between the Commissioners for the Exliibition of 1851 (hereinafter referred to 

 as " the Commissioners ") and the said Society, which is contained in certain 

 Articles of Agreement, dated the 24th day of July, 18G0, and scaled with the 

 corporate seals of the Commis.sioners and the said Society respectively, 

 whereby it was agreed (amongst otlier things) : &st, that a piece of land at 

 Kensington Gore, containing 20 acres, or thereabouts, part of the estate of the 

 Commissioners, should be leased to the said Society for a term of years ; 

 secondly, that the said Society, immediately after the execution by the 

 said Commissioners of certain earthworks, should lay out and construct on the 

 land an ornamental garden, with walks, trees, slu'ubs, terraces, steps, fountains, 

 bai^-houses, statues, and vases, and at the north end of the said land a 

 conservatory or winter garden, and expend not less than £50,000 ; and, 

 thirdly, that the Commissioners, simultaneously with the progress of the 

 works of the said Society, shoitld at their ovra cost enclose the said land with 

 arcades, distinguished as the upper arcades, central arcades, and lower arcades 

 respectively, and that the upper arcades (except the parts thereof coloured green 

 in the plan annexed to the said Ai-ticles of Agreement), and certain rights 

 and easements as to the use or enjo}'ment of the central and lower arcades and 

 the excepted parts of the upper arcades, should be included in the lea,se of the 

 said land, and that the Commissioners shall expend the sum of £50,000 about 

 such earthworks, and in erecting the said arcades. And it is also represented 

 to Us, that under the said Articles of Agreement the sum of £40,000 (part of 

 the £50,000 to be expended by the said Society) is to be raised by debentures 



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