NEW CHAETEE AND AGEEEMENTS. 



said Society, and of increasinsr tlie usefulness thereof, hare, of Oiu- especial Members of 



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Errace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, given and granted, and We do Society, and 

 hereby give and grant, That Our right, trusty, and wcll-boloYed Cousin to be »i3-^^^^^ 

 Henry John, Earl Ducie, Fellow of the Eoyal Society ; Charles Eichard, elected 

 Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter ; mentioned, 

 Jolm Jackson Blandy, John Glutton, Charles Wentworth Dilke the younger, tion ot the 

 Charles Edmonds, Septimus Holmes Godson, Henry Thomas Hope, John society^ 

 Lee, Henry Pownall, James Veitch the yoimger, and Eobei-t Wrench, (being 

 respectively some of the persons now composing the Hoi-ticultural Society of 

 London,) and all other persons now (with the persons respectively hereinbefore 

 named) being Fellows or Members of the said Society, and such others as 

 from time to time shall be appointed and elected in the manner hereinafter 

 directed, and their successors, be and shall for ever hereafter continue and be, 

 by virtue of these presents, one body politic and coiporate, by the name of 

 " The Eoyal Horticultm-al Society ; " and them and their successors, for the Corporate 

 pm-poses for which the Horticultm-al Society of London was incorporated by 

 the same Letters Patent, and with and subject to such additions and modifi- 

 cations to or in the same purposes as appear in and by or flow from, or are 

 consequent on, the said an-angcment between the said Commissioners and the 

 said Society, and the said Articles of Agreement of the 24th day of July, 



1860, and of the 20th day of November, 1860, and of the 1st day of March, 



1861, respectively. We do hereby constitute and declare to be one body 

 politic and corporate, and by the same name to have pei'petnal succession, and 

 for ever hereafter to be persons able and capable in the law, and to have 



power to hold and to pm-chase, receive and possess the goods and chattels J",™'''"^, 

 already vested in or belonging to the Horticultural Society, incorporated by and lands 

 the recited Letters Patent, and any other goods and ' chattels whatsoever, mg to tie 

 and (notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain) to hold and to purchase, hold to pnrchase 

 and enjoy to them and their successors, any lands, tenements, and heredita- ither goods 

 ments whatsoever, including as well the lands, tenements, and hereditaments """^ 

 now vested in or belonging to the said Society, or agreed to be leased to them 

 as hereinbefore recited, as all other lands, tenements, and hereditaments 

 wheresoever situate, such other lands, tenements, and hereditaments not 

 exceeding in the whole the annual value of £5000, without incm-ring the 

 penalties or forfeitm-es of the Statutes of Mortmain or any of them, and by 

 the name aforesaid to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be To sne^and 

 answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts and places whatsoever of 

 Us, Om' heu's and successors, in all actions, suits, causes, and things whatso- 

 ever, and to act and do in all things relating to the said corporation in as 

 ample manner and foim as any other Our liege subjects being persons able 

 and capable in the law, or any other body politic or corporate in om' said 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, mav or can act and do, and To use « 



common 



also to have and to use a common seal, and the same to change and alter from seal, 

 time to tune as they shall think fit. 



