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ROYAL CHARTER 
 
 or 
 
 INCORPORATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
 
 GRANTKD 4th NOVEMBER, 1851. 
 
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 Recorijed 15th November, 1851. 
 
 TORONTO : 
 CARTER & THOMAS, PRINTERS, YONGE STREET. 
 
 1852. 
 
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 JUniS 1935 
 
ROYAL CHARTER 
 
 OF INCORPORATION OF "THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE." 
 
 ELGIN AND KINCARDINE. 
 
 ICTORIA by the Grace of God 
 of the United Kingdom of Great 
 Britain and Ireland, Clueen, De- 
 fender of the Faith, &c. &c. 
 
 To all whom these presents shall come, greeting : 
 
 WHEREAS WiUiam E. Logan, John O. Browne, 
 Frederick F. Passmore, Kivas Tully , WilUam Thomas, 
 Thomas Ridout, Sandford Fleming, and others of 
 our loving subjects in our Province of Canada, have 
 formed themselves into a Society for the encourage- 
 ment and general advancement of the Physical 
 Sciences, the Arts and the Manufactures in this part 
 of our Dominions, and more particularly for promoting 
 the acquisition of those branches of Knowledge which 
 are connected with the Professions of Surveying, 
 Engineering and Architecture, being the Arts of 
 opening up the Wilderness and preparing the Country 
 for the pursuits of the Agriculturist, of adjusting with 
 accuracy the boundaries of Properties, of improving 
 
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF 
 
 and adorning our Cities and the Habitations of our 
 subjects, and otherwise smoothing the path of Civihza- 
 tion, and also being the A^ts of directing the great 
 fiourcesof Power in Nature for the use and convenience 
 of man as the means of production and of traffic both 
 for external and internal trade, and materially ad- 
 vancing the development of the Resources andol the 
 Industrial Productions and Commerce of the Country, 
 and have commenced the formation of a Museum for 
 collections of Models and Drawings of Machines and 
 Constructions, New Inventions and Improvements, 
 Geological and Mineralogical Specimens, and what- 
 ever may be calculated, either as Natural Productions 
 or Specimens of Art, to promote the purposes of 
 Science and the general interests of society, and have 
 subscribed and collected certain sums of money for 
 these purposes. 
 
 AND WHEREAS, in order to secure the pro- 
 perty of the said Society and to extend its useful 
 operations and at the same time to give it a more 
 permanent establishment among the Literary and 
 Scientific Institutions of this part of our Dominions, 
 we have been besought to grant to the said William 
 E. Logan, John O. Browne, Frederick F. Passmore, 
 Kivas TuUy, William Thomas, Thomas Ridout, 
 Sandford Fleming, and to those who now are or shall 
 hereafter become members of the said Society, our 
 Royal Charter op Incorforatjon, for the purpose 
 aforesaid. 
 
 NOW KNOW YE THAT WE, being desirous 
 
THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 5 
 
 of encouraging a design so laudable and salutary, of 
 our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere 
 motion Have willed, granted and declared, and 
 DO by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, 
 WILL, GRANT AND DECLARE that tbc said William E. 
 Logan. John O. Browne. Frederick Passmore, Kivas 
 Tully. William Thomas. Thomas Ridout, Sandford 
 Fleming, and such others of our loving subjects as 
 now are members of the said Society or shall at any 
 time hereafter become members thereof according to 
 such regulations or by-laws as shall be hereafter 
 framed or enacted, shall by virtue of these presents 
 be the members of. and form one body politic and 
 corporate for the purposes aforesaid, by the name of 
 .. THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE.'' by which 
 name they shall have perpetual succession and a 
 common seal, with full power and authority to alter, 
 vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion; 
 and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and 
 be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in every 
 court, of us, our heirs and successors, and be forever 
 capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, and 
 enjoy to them and their successors any good^, and 
 chattels whatsoever, and also to be able and capable 
 in law (notwithstanding the Statutes of Mortmain) to 
 take, purchase, possess, hold and enjoy, to them and 
 their successors, a Hall or House, and any Messuages, 
 Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whatsoever, the 
 yearly value of which, Including the s\h- of the said 
 Hall, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of Two 
 
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF 
 
 thousand pounds, 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 to act in all the concerns 
 of the said body politic and corporate for the purposes 
 aforesaid as fully and effectually, to all intents, effects, 
 constructions, and purposes w hatsoever, as any other 
 of our liege subjects or any other body politic or 
 corporeite in our said Province of Canada, not being 
 under any disability, might do in their respective 
 concerns. 
 
 AND we do hereby grant our especial license and 
 authority unto all and every person and persons, 
 bodies politic and corporate, otherwise competent, to 
 grant, sell, alien, and convey in Mortmain unto and 
 to the use of the said Society and their successors 
 any Messuages, Lands, TenementSj or Hereditaments 
 •not exceeding such annual value as aforesaid. And 
 our will and pleasure is, and we furthe. grant and 
 declare, that there shall be a General Meeting of the 
 Members of the said body politic and corporate, to 
 be held from time to time as hereinafter mentioned, 
 and that there shall always be a Council to direct 
 and manage the concerns of the said body politic and 
 corporate, and that the general meetings of the. 
 council shall have the entire direction and manage- 
 ment of the same in the manner and subject to the 
 regulations hereinafter mentioned* But our will and 
 pleasure is, that at all General Meetings and Meetings 
 of the Council the majority of the members present. 
 
THR CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
 
 and having a right to vote thereat respectively, shall 
 decide upon the matters propounded at such meetings 
 the person presiding therem having, i-^ case of an 
 equality of numbers, a second or casting vote. 
 
 AND we do hereby also will, grant, and declare 
 that the Council shall consist of a President, not 
 more than three nor less than one Vice President, 
 and not more than eleven ror less than three other 
 Members, to be elected out of the members of the 
 said body politic and corporate, and that the first 
 
 ,ve of the President, 
 
 T months after the 
 
 the said William 
 
 at of the said body 
 
 Members of the Council 
 
 shall be elected within s". 
 
 date of this our Charter. 
 
 E. Logan shall be the first i . 
 
 politic and corporate. 
 
 AND we do hereby further will, grant and declare 
 
 that it shall be lawful for the members of tVe said 
 
 body politic and corporate hereby established to hold 
 General Meetings once in the year or oftener, for the 
 purposes hereinafter mentioned — viz.^that the General 
 Meeting shall choose the President, Vice Presidents, 
 and other Members of the Council; that the General 
 Meetings shall make and establish such by-laws as 
 they shall deem to be useful and necessary for the 
 regulation of the said body politic and corporate, for 
 the admission of members, the establishment of Branch 
 Societies, the management of the estate, goods, and 
 business of the said body politic and corporate, rnd 
 for fixing and determining the manner of electing the 
 President, Vice President, and other Members of the 
 
i CHARTER OF INCORPORATIOH OF 
 
 Council, and the period of their continuance in office, 
 as also of electing and appointing a Treasurer, two 
 Auditors, and two Secretaries, and such other officers, 
 attendants, and servants as shall be deemed necessary 
 or useful for the said body politic and corporate, and 
 such by-laws from time to time shall or may alter, 
 vary or revoke, and sUall and may make such new 
 and other by-laws as they shall think most useful and 
 expedient, so that th*? same be not repugnant %o the 
 laws of England, to these presents, or to the laws 
 and statutes of this our Province of Canada, and 
 shall and may also enter into any resolution and 
 make any regulation respecting any of the affairs and 
 concerns of the said body politic and corporate as 
 shall be thought necessary and proper. 
 
 AND we further will, grant and declare that the 
 Council shall have the sole management of the 
 income and funds of the said body politic and cor- 
 porate, and also the entire management and superin- 
 tendence of all the other affairs and concerns thereof, 
 and shall and nay — but not inconsistently with or 
 contrary to the provisions of this our Charter or any 
 existing by-law, the laws of England, or the laws and 
 statutes of our said Province of Canada — do all such 
 acts and deeds as shall appear to them necessary or 
 essential to be done for the purpose of carrying into 
 effect the objects and views of the said body politic 
 and corporate. 
 
 AND we further will, grant and declare that the 
 
THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 9 
 
 •hull bo vested, and we dc hereby vest the same, 
 solely and absohitely in the members thereof, and that 
 they shall have full power and authority to selU 
 alienate charge or otherwise dispose of the same as 
 they shall think proper; but that no sale, mortgage, 
 incumbrance, or other disposition of any Messuages, 
 Lands, Tene--«ents, or Hereditaments belonging to 
 the said body politic and corporate shall be made, 
 except with the approbation and com ire> ce of a 
 
 General Meeting. 
 
 AND we lastly declare it to be our royal will and 
 pleasure that no resolution or by-law shall on any 
 account or pretence whatsoever be made by the said 
 body politic and corporate in opposition to the general 
 scope, true intent and meaning of this our Charter, 
 the laws of England, or the laws and statutes of ihis 
 our said Province of Canada, and that if any such 
 rule or by-law shall be made the same shall be abso- 
 lutely null and void to all intents, effects, constructions 
 and purposes whatsoever- 
 
 IN testimony whereof we have caused these our 
 Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of i> r 
 aaid Province to be hereunto affixed. 
 
 WITNESS our Right Trusty anJ Right Well- 
 beloved Cousin James, Earl of Elgin and 
 Kincardine, Knight of the Most Ancient 
 and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, 
 Governor General of British North Ame- 
 
 _:_« I r^o«-.4-nin r^fanofol ar\A finvprnnr- 
 
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 CHARTER OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 in-Chief in and over our Provinces of 
 Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 
 and the Island of Prince Edward, and 
 Vice Admiral of the same, &c. &c. Sec,, 
 at Quebec, this fourth day of November 
 in the year of Our Lord One Thousand 
 Eight Hundred and Fifty-one, and in 
 the fifteenth year of our reign. 
 
 By Command, 
 E. A. MEREDITH, 
 
 Assistant Secretary. 
 
 W. B. RICHARDS, 
 AttoTTuy General.