418 JOlTcXAL OF THE K^YAL HOETICULTCEAL SuCJETY. 
SUPPLEMENTAL IIUYAE CH.UilER 
GRANTED BY HER )IOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY 
THE QUEEX EMPRESS 
TO 
THE IIUYAL HoirriCULTUEAL SoCIETL 
A.D. 1899. 
Wheeeas a Humble Petition has been presented to us by the Eoyal 
Horticultural Society, representing : — 
1. That by Eoyal Letters Patent granted by his late Majesty King 
George III., and bearing date at Westminster the 17th day of April, in 
the 49th year of his reign, the Horticultural Society of London (herein- 
after referred to as the said Society was incorporated for the purpose 
of the improvement of Horticultm-e in all its branches, ornamental as well 
as useful. 
2. That upon representations to us that the said Society had sedulously 
pursued and successfully promoted the objects for which it was incor- 
porated, and in consequence of an arrangement and certain agreements 
made between the said Society and the Commissioners for the Exhibition 
of 1851, with respect to a lease to the said Society of part of the Commis- 
sioners' estate at Kensington Gore, and other matters, it was by Pioyal 
Letters Patent granted by us, and bearing date at Westminster the 8th 
day of ]\Iay, in the 21th year of our reign, declared to be our will and. 
pleasure that the said Society should thenceforth be called The Eoyal 
Horticultural Society '■ : And by the same Letters Patent (hereinafter 
referred to as " the New Charter"") all persons being then Fellows or 
Members of the said Society, and such others as should from time lo 
time be appointed and elected in manner thereinafter mentioned, and 
their successors, were incorporated by the name of the Eoyal Horticul- 
tural Society (hereinafter referred to as " the Society") for the purposes- 
for which the said Horticultural Society of London was incorporated by 
the Letters Patent granted by his late Majesty King George HI., with and 
subject to such additions and modifications to or in the same purposes as- 
appeared in and by, or flowed from or were consequent on, the said 
arrangement and agreements. 
3. That the New Charter contained numerous provisions relating to 
the said arrangement and agreements, but the lease granted by the 
