410 JOUKXAL OF THE EOYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Commissioners shall think fit to expend in accordance with that clause, 
not exceeding £'10,000 in the whole. And if there shall remain any 
surplus over and above the said several payments thereinbefore directed 
to be made or retained out of the receipts from the gardens." there shall 
be paid to the Commissioners for their own use, and as additional rent, 
yearly (whether or ]iot they make any additional outlay), a sum equal to 
half such surplus, and that it is by the said Agreement now in recital also 
provided {inter alia) that the clause (therein referred to as the 17th 
clause) of the said therein and first herein-recited Agreement relating to 
the application of the three-fifth shares of the said Society towards the 
liquidation of the said debenture debt of i?40,000 shall be altered as 
follows : videlicet, the said Society shall devote and apply towards the 
liquidation of their debenture debt (whether it amount to the original 
sum of *; 10,000 only, or any increased amount under the authority of 
clause 1 of the Agreement now in recital), three-fifths of the money 
actually received by them from time to time in respect of the '"receipts 
from the gardens," after the payments directed to be retained out of the 
said receipts for expenses and interest by the said Society and the rent to 
the Commissioners, and that certain alterations consequential on the 
execution of the said Agreement now in recital are thereby made 
in the other agreements or stipulations contained in the said therein 
and first herein-recited Agreement and hereinbefore mentioned or 
referred to. 
5. And whereas it is fiuther represented to Us that, in conse- 
quence of the arrangement and the several Articles of Agreement 
respectively aforesaid, and in order that the same and the objects thereof 
may, so far as regards the said Society, be fully carried into eflect, it is 
necessary or expedient that the constitution of the said Society should be 
in some respects altered, and that the powers of the said Society should 
be enlarged, and it is also represented to Us that the usefulness of the 
said Society would be increased thereby, and that the said Society hath 
consented thereto. Therefore We have been besought to grant unto the 
persons now composing the Horticultural Society of London, and such 
other persons as shall be approved of and elected as hereinafter mentioned, 
Our Royal Charter of incorporation for the purposes aforesaid, and with 
and under such powers and directions as hereinafter mentioned. And it 
is Our will and pleasure that such Society shall henceforth be called 
" The Royal Hoeticultueal Society." 
6. Now know ye, that We, being desirous of promoting the objects of 
the said Society, and of increasing the usefulness thereof, have, of Our 
special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, given and granted, 
and we do hereby give and grant. That Our right, trusty, and well- 
beloved Cousin Henry John, Earl Ducie, Fellow of the Royal Society ; 
Charles Richard, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble 
Order of the Garter ; John Jackson Blandy, John Clutton, Charles 
Wentworth Dilke the younger, Charles Edmonds, Septimus Holmes 
Godson, Henry Thomas Hope, John Lee, Henry Pownall, James Veitch 
the younger, and Robert Wrench, (being respectively some of the persons 
now composing the Horticultural Society of London,) and all other 
persons now (with the persons respectively hereinbefore named) being 
