406 JOUKXAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XEW CHARTER OF 
THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
A.D. 1860. 
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the rnitecl Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to all to whom 
these presents shall come. Greeting : 
1. WHEREAS THE HoETicuLTURAL SociETY OF LoNDON. hereinafter 
referred to as " the said Society," was incorporated by Royal Letters 
Patent under the Great Seal of our said United Kingdom, bearing date 
at Westminster the 17th day of April in the 49th year of the reign of His 
late Majesty King George the Third, for the purpose of the improvement 
of Horticulture in all its branches, ornamental as well as useful. 
2. And whereas it has been represented to Us that the said Society 
has sedulously pursued and successfuly promoted the objects for which it 
was incorporated : And it has been also represented to Us that, with the 
\iew of still further promoting such objects, an arrangement was lately 
entered into between the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 (here- 
inafter referred to as " the Commissioners " ) and the said Society, which 
is contained in certain Articles of Agreement, dated the 21th day of July, 
1860, and sealed with the corporate seals of the Commissioners and the 
said Society respectively, whereby it was agreed (amongst other things) : 
first, 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 liy the said Commissioners of certain 
earthworks, should lay out and construct on the land an ornamental 
garden, with walks, trees, shrubs, terraces, steps, fountains, band-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, should at their own 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 Articles of 
Agreement), and certain rights and easements as to the use or enjoyment 
of the central and lower arcades and the excepted parts of the upper 
arcades, should be included in the lease 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 1 10,000 (part of the 
i^50,000 to be expended by the said Society) is to be raised by debentures 
