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"K-- ■-.,■.» ■ ■-''•V '-i ■^^^■ , /' '.'>■*_ v., v;^, ?.■:*. •-'.> y ■< . of t^e Sniteb ^rngbcm of (Sreat Britain ani Irdani ^mn gefenhr 0f tjje Jfait^ ta all ta k\m i\m ^rtsents s^all rame fretting. 2ZB|if Vta^ by Our Royal Charter under Our Great Seal bearing date at Westminster the Slst day of May in the 25th Year (jf Our Reign (in this Our Charter called "The Original Charter J^') a Coihpany was incorporated by the name of " The " Bank of British Columbia " with a Common Seal for the purpose of carrying on the Business of Ban,king in our Colonies Possessions or Settlements of British Columbia £lnd Vancouver's Island on the Continent of North America rmt subject to the conditions in the said Original Charter contained : . 3finb tD|)crea^ by the Original Charter We declared that on the determination of the term of Twenty-one years from the date thereof the privileges thereby conferred on the said Company -»ir:- 1 - 1/ should cease unless We Our heirs or successors should by writing under Our Great Seal declare to the contrary and should authorise the said* Company to continue incorporated under the I Original Charter for a further term of Ten years or for such period atid under such conditions as We Our heirs and successors should think flft : %Viti tDtyrtCO^ by a Supplemental Charter under Our Great Seal dated the 30th day of August in the 28th year of Our Reign We authorised the Company to carry on the general Business of Banking i!i any city town or place in North America to the westward of the meridian of longitude of ninety-five degrees west from Greenwich being within any of Our Colonies Possessions or • Settlements except the territories of the Hudson's Bay Co^ipany or not being within any of our Colonies Possessions or Settlements but in which a British Consulate or Vice-Consulate was or might be afterwards established but » subject to the conditions in the Original Charter contained : %nh hlijereajj^ by a Supplemental Charter under Our Grt^at Seal dated the 11th day of May 1883 We . authorised the said Company to ieQn]tinue incorporated under the Original Charter as Imended by the said last-mentioned Supplemental; Charter for a further period of One year : 3fillb tOf^rca^ by a Supplemental Charter Hmder Our Great Seal dated the 27th day of May 1884 We authorised the said Company to continue incorporated under the Original Charter as amended 18^ fui \ I V, by the Supplemental Charters dated 30th August 1864, llth May 1883 and 27th May 1884 for a further period of Ten years : %Vii \X)f^etca0 the l^st-mentioned period of Ten years during which the said Company is declared to remain incorporated will expire on the 31st day of May 1894 and application has been made to us for a prolongation of the incorporation of the said Company : • - l^otD t^no\D pc that We by these presents do will and ordain tliat the said Company shall continue incorporated for a further period to commence at the expiration of the time at which the incorporation of the said Company is limited to expire as aforesaid and to expire on the 1st day of July 1901 and that subject as in this our Charter mentioned the said Original Charter as amended^ by the said Supplemental Charters and all the powers privileges and provisions therein contained shall remain in foroe for such further period as last aforesaid. IdroMibeD aitDapjer anb ll^e Do t^thp iatt^tt Will miD <©rtJain that nothing in this Our Charter shall affect our power to revoke the Original Charter as amended by the said Supplemental Charters or any of them on such representation as is in the Original Charter as amended by the said Supplemental Charters in that behalf contained or the power of the Treasury to make any representation autliorised or required by the Original Cliarter as amended by the said Supplementary Charters or any of them to be made ^ ' t"., in relation to or as a condition precedent to any such revocation. 3lltlb toi^eajet by the Original Charter it is provided that the totajl amount of the it Bills and Notes of the Company in circulation and payable to bearer on demand shall not at any time exceed the amount of the Capital of the Company actually paid up : 3tltfl \SJl^ttt*i0 doubts have arisen how the said amount is to be calculated in the currency of Canada : yTe deem it expedient to will and ordain and We dd hereby will and ordain that the said amount when converted into the currency of Canada withiu the meaning qi the Acts of the Parliament of Canada shall be calculated at the rate per pound sterling of Four dollars eighty-six cents and two-thirds of a cent in the currency of Canada within the meaning of the said Acts. "3[n Witne0^ whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made patent. Witness Oursclf at Westminster the twelfth day of May in the fifty-seventh year of Our reign. By Warrant under the Queen's Sign Manual. (Sgd.) MUIB, MACKENZIE. m $ iiiiw' V t int to any rter it is the 'i Bills ition and b at any il of the the said rrency of id ordain the said »f Canada irliament rate per jents and ■ Canada hese Our urself at in the anual. ENZIE.