and answer and be answered unto, in every Court of us, our heirs and successors.

AND WE DO WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that the said Proprietors and their successors shall be for ever able and capable in the law, to purchase, receive, possess, and enjoy, to them and their successors, any goods and chattels whatsoever; and also be able and capable in the law (notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain), to take, purchase, possess, hold, and enjoy, to them and their successors, a Hall, College, and any messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, whatsoever.

BUT OUR will and pleasure is, that the Hall or College of the said Society shall be situated within the City of London or its liberties, and that the yearly value of the said hall, college, messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, shall not exceed in the whole, the sum of £2000, computing the same respectively at the rack-rent which might have been had or gotten for the same respectively, at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof.

AND WE DO HEREBY ALSO WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that the said Proprietors may, by the name aforesaid, act in all the concerns of the said Corporation as fully and effectually, to all intents, effects, constructions, and purposes, whatsoever, as any other of our liege subjects, or any other body politic or corporate in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, not being under any disability, might do in their own respective concerns. AND WE declare it to be our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Institution shall not be subject to the control, power, or jurisdiction, of our City of London, or any corporation, guild, or fraternity, within the same; and that no member of the said Institution shall, in virtue thereof, be entitled to any franchise belonging to the freemen of our said City, or to the freemen of any guild or fraternity within the same, or the liberties thereof.

AND WE DO HEREBY CONSTITUTE and GRANT, that there shall be a President, Four Vice-Presidents, Twenty Managers, and a Secretary, of the said Institution.

THAT One Vice-President and five Managers, as they stand first upon the list, shall annually vacate their office.

THAT it shall be the duty of the President to preside at the General Meetings of the Proprietors, and at all the Meetings of the Managers at which he shall be present.

That it shall be the duty of one of the Vice-Presidents to preside at the General Meetings, and the Meetings of Managers, at which the President shall not be present.

THAT it shall be the duty of one of the Managers to preside at the General Meetings, and the Meetings of the Managers, at which neither the President nor any one of the Vice-Presidents shall be present.

THAT the President, Vice-Presidents, Managers, and Secretary, shall form the Committee of Management.

THAT it shall be the duty of the President, Vice-Presidents, Managers, and Secretary, to frame such Bye-laws, for the government of the Institution, not inconsistent with the general scope and true intent and meaning of this our Charter, nor in any way contrary to the laws of our land, as they shall think fit, and to propose the same to a General Meeting of Proprietors; and such General Meeting shall and may adopt or reject the same, as they shall see fit.

THAT the Managers shall use their best endeavours to form an extensive Library, and to procure Courses of Lectures to be given on Experimental Philosophy, Chemistry, and the various branches of Literature, Science, and Art, which they shall think likely to advance the objects of the Institution: taking particular care that the Lectures treat of nothing foreign to or unconnected with those objects.

THAT it also shall be their duty to elect and admit Proprietors, Subscribers, and Honorary Members, of the Institution; and to appoint, and, as they shall see occasion, to remove or change the Assistant-Secretaries, Professors, Lecturers, Librarians, and other officers; to direct the hall, college, house, or houses, of the Institution; to make regulations for the preservation of order and decorum in the same; and to cause fair and accurate accounts and minutes in writing to be made and kept of the receipts, payments, and other transactions, of themselves, their officers, and agents.

AND THAT, Subject to the superintendence and control of the General Meetings of the Proprietors, all the concerns of the

Institution shall, in every respect and for every purpose, be directed, governed, and ordered, by the Committee of Manage

ment.

THAT not less than five of the Committee of Management shall be a Quorum, to act in the concerns hereby intrusted to them.

THAT it shall be the duty of the Secretary to attend the General Meetings of the Proprietors, and the Meetings of the Committee of Management, to take down in writing, and enter in proper minute-books, a minute of the proceedings of the said Meetings; to direct the Assistant-Secretaries and clerks, in every thing relating to the business of their respective offices; and to see that due notice be given of the General Meetings of the Proprietors, and of the Meetings of the Committee of Management.

AND WE WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that the President, Vice-Presidents, Managers, and Secretary, shall be annually chosen, as hereinafter mentioned; but that the said Sir Francis Baring shall be President of the Institution, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the General Meeting of the Proprietors of the said Institution in April next, and from thenceforth until another person shall be chosen in his room; that Sir Richard Neave, Baronet, F.R.S. and F.A.S., shall be the Vice-President of the said Institution, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for three years; the said Beeston Long, Vice-President of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for two years; the said George Hibbert, Vice-President of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for one year; and the said John Julius Angerstein, Vice-President of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth until another person shall be chosen in his room. That the said Richard Clark, the said Matthew Raine, the said Richard Sharp, the said John Smith, and the said Henry Thornton, shall be the Managers of the said Institution, from the day of the date of

this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for three years; Jeremiah Harman, Esq., the said Benjamin Harrison, the said William Hasledine Pepys, the said John Rennie, and the said Robert Wigram, Managers of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for two years; the said Thomas Bodley, Charles Bosanquet, Esq., John Peter Hankey, Esq., one of the Aldermen of our said City of London, Joseph Huddart, Esq. F.R.S., and the said Job Matthew Raikes, Managers of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for one year; and the said Thomas Baring, Samuel Boddington, Esq., Nathaniel Bogle French, Esq., William Henry Hoare, Esq., and Abraham Wilday Robarts, Esq., Managers of the same, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth until other persons shall be chosen in their room.

AND THAT the said Samuel Woods be the present Secretary of the said Institution.

AND WE WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that there shall be a Committee of Visitors, to consist of the President and Twelve Members, to be elected from among the Proprietors of the Institution; and that none of the said twelve Visitors shall be of the Committee of Managers; and that any three Members of the said Committee of Visitors shall be a Quorum, competent to act in the concerns hereby intrusted to them.

THAT it shall be the duty of the Committee of Visitors, to inspect every department of the Institution, and to report thereupon to the Committee of Managers or General Meeting, as they shall think fit.

THAT the first three of the twelve, as they stand on the list, shall annually vacate their office.

THAT the said Henry Hoare, Edward Jenner, M.D., F.R.S., and L.S., and William Saunders, M.D., F.R.S., and F.A.S., and Physician in Ordinary to our most dearly beloved Son, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, shall be Visitors, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said first General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for three

years; Sir William Blizard, Knt., F.R.S., and F.A.S., the said Sir Charles Price, and James Shaw, Esq. M.P., and one of the Aldermen of our said City, shall be Visitors from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said first Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for two years; Thomson Bonar, Esq., the said Harvey Christian Combe, and the said Sir Hugh Inglis, shall be the Visitors, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the first Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth for one year; and Charles Grant, Esq. M.P., Robert Hankey, Esq., and the said William Manning, Visitors, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and until others shall be chosen in their room.

AND WE WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that there shall be Five Auditors of the Institution, to be chosen from amongst the Proprietors; and that it shall be their duty to examine the accounts of the Institution, and to see that they are properly made up, and to report thereupon to the Annual Meeting of Proprietors, and that the Auditors shall be chosen as hereinafter is mentioned.

BUTTHAT Isaack Lyon Goldsmid, Esq., Thomas Hughan, Esq., John Inglis, Esq., Thomas Reid, Esq., and William Salte, Esq., shall be the Auditors, from the day of the date of this our Royal Charter, until the said General Meeting in April next, and from thenceforth until successors shall be appointed in their stead.

THAT there shall be a Treasurer to the said Institution.

THAT Sir William Curtis, Bart. M.P., and also one other of the Aldermen of our said City of London, shall be the present Treasurer of the said Institution.

THAT it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to superintend the accounts of the Institution at their banker's, and to order payment of such drafts as shall be made on the Treasurer by the Committee of Managers, and also of such bills and other disbursements as they shall especially direct to be paid by him, and to make up his accounts to the 31st of December, in every year, and lay them before the Managers.

AND WE WILL, CONSTITUTE, and GRANT, that on some day in the month of April, in every year, a General Meeting shall be