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Commissioners to the said Society, and the said agreements, have 
expired, and the said provisions of the New Charter have consequently 
become superfluous and valueless. 
4. That it has now become desirable to define more precisely the 
objects of the Society, and to alter the provisions of the New Charter 
relating to the retirement and election of members of the Council, and 
to empower the Society to provide by bye laws for some of the details 
now contained in the New Charter, and to make other alterations and 
improvements in the New Charter with a view to expunging obsolete 
matter, and to greater simplicity and brevity. 
5. That a Draft of the Petition for such Charter, and also a Draft of 
the proposed Charter had been submitted to and approved by a special 
general meeting of the members of the Society, held on the 21st day of 
July, 1899, 
And praying that we would grant to the Society a Supplemental 
Koyal Charter in the terms of the Draft Charter annexed to 
the said Petition, or in such other terms as to us, with the 
advice of our Honourable Privy Council, might seem meet. 
NOW KNOW YE that We, considering the said Petition, and being 
satisfied that the objects of the Society are laudable, and being desirous 
of promoting its advancement and interest, have of our special grace 
certain knowledge and mere motion given and granted. And We dc. 
hereby give and grant as follows, that is to say : — 
I. 
Our trusty and well-beloved Sir James John Trevor Lawrence, 
Baronet, Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Lleweljn, Baronet, and John 
Thomas Bennett-Poe, Sydney Courtauld, Thomas Burt Haywood, 
Philip Crowley, Joseph Gurney Fowler, James Hudson, Frederick 
George Lloyd, Robert McLachlan, William Marshall, Hugo Miiller, 
Alfred Hetley Pearson, Charles Edward Shea, and Harry James Veitch, 
and all other persons now being Fellows or Members of the Society, and 
such others as from time to time shall be appointed and elected in 
manner hereinafter directed, and their successors, shall for ever hereafter- 
continue and be by virtue of these presents one body politic and cor- 
porate, by the name of " The Royal Horticultural Society." And them 
and their successors, for the purpose of the encouragement and improve- 
ment of scientific and practical horticulture in all its branches, We dO' 
hereby constitute and declare to be one body politic and corporate, with 
perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with power from time to time 
to alter the same and with power to hold, deal with, and dispose of all 
personal property already vested in or belonging to the Society, and to- 
acquire, hold, deal with, and dispose of any other personal property what- 
soever, and (notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain) to hold, deal 
with and dispose of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments now vested 
in or belonging to the Society, and to acquire, hold, deal with and dispose 
of other lands, tenements, and hereditaments wheresoever situate, such 
