APPENDIX. 



days nor more than ten days from the original meeting, for taking or 

 continuing sucli ballot, of which adjoraned meeting, and of the object thereof, 

 notice shall be given in some newspaper circulating in London two days at 

 least before the day of such adjomiied meeting. 

 Aimuai 17. And, lastly, every annual meeting shall be deemed a general meeting, 



sSibf and the Council may call at any time and from time to time any other 

 genSuione. general meeting of the Fellows of the Society. In case of a ballot under the 

 13th and 16th clauses respectively, the ballot shall be taken at an adjourned 

 meeting on some day to be appointed at the general meeting at which the 

 same shall be required within ten days next after such general meeting 

 between the hours of twelve o'clock at noon and three in the afternoon. In 

 Witness whereof We have caused these Om' Letters to be made patent — 



Witness Ourself at Our Palace at Westminster this Eighth day of 

 May in the 24th year of Our reign. 



Agreements behveen Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition 

 of 1851 and the Horticultural Society for the Lease to the Society 

 of a portion of the Commissioners' estate at Kensington Gore. 



ORIGINAL AGREEMENT, 



Articles of Ageeejieot made this 24th day of July in the year of our 

 Lord 1860, between the Commissioners for the Exliibition of 1851 (herein- 

 after referred to as " the Commissioners "), of the one part, and the Hoi-ticul- 

 tm'al Society of London (hereinafter refeiTed to as "the Society") of the 

 other part. Whereas the Society being desfrous of obtaining a suitable area 

 in or near the metropolis for an ornamental garden, in which they may 

 exhibit and display the progress of Horticultm-e, and to which they propose to 

 admit not only their Members and the holders of transferable tickets to which 

 certain Life Members are and will be entitled, and also the holders of such 

 debentures as are hereinafter mentioned (without any pa)Tnent), but other 

 visitors on payment (by such visitors) of fees for admission, have applied to 

 the Commissioners for a lease for that pm'pose of a portion of their estate at 

 Kensington Gore hereinafter described ; and the Commissioners, being 

 satisfied that the intended operations of the Society will extend the influence 

 of the Science and Art of Horticulture upon productive industry, and that tlie 

 formation of the said garden will be beneficial to their neighboming property, 

 have agreed to grant such lease on the terms hereinafter appearing. And 

 whereas it has been agreed that certain earthworks for altering the levels of the 

 land to be demised, as well for the permanent improvement thereof as for 

 facilitating the operations of the Society, and certain arcades on the bound- 



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