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Tous laa autroa axamplairaa originaux sont filmte an commandant par la pramiAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'impraaaion ou d'lllustration at an tarminant par la darnlAra paga qui comporta u'^m taiila amprainta. Un daa symboiaa sulvanta apparaftra sur la damlAra imaga da chaqua microficha, salon la ca3: la symboia — •► signifia "A SUIVRE". la symbols y signifia "FIN". Laa cartaa, planchaa, tablaaux. ate. pauvant Atra filmte A daa taux da rMuction diffirants. Loraqua la documant ast trop grand pour itra rarroduit wi un saul cllch«, it est film* A partir da i'angia sup4riaur gaucha, da gaucha h droita. at da haut an baa, an pranant la nombra d'Imagaa n^cassaira. Laa diagrammaa suivants illuatrant la m^thoda. 1 2 3 1 6 CHARTER or TEINITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. .'^'•s^s.i^^sA^ilAf^VAA^W^AAAA^^^^'^^ TORONTO: A. r. TLKKS; PRIMTSR TO THX C0LU6Z. 1853. CHARTER /^'V\/-W"WWWV ** W *'■* VittCtiSif bij i^t ©race of (&oh of tljr tlnitrli iRtnahdm ef ««at Britain anb ^rrlanli, y any Statute oi the said College, to be passed for that purpose. !3lnb n)l)Crfafl it is by the said Act further provided that the said Corporation of Trinity College shall, besides other corporate powers and capacities necessary to the well ordering of their affairs, have full power to make and establish such rules, orders, and regulations (not being contrary to the Laws of Canada, or to the said Act) as they shall deem useful or necessary, as well concerning the nystem of Education in, as for the conduct and government of the said College, and of a Preparatory School to be connected with, or dependant on the same ; and for the management of the property belonging to the said Corpo- ration, and shall have power to hold for the rnid College real and personal Estate and Property, and to sell, alienate, convey or lease the same, if need be ; provided that the total yearly income from the property so acquired shall not at any time exceed the sum of five thousand pounds of curient money of our said Province. ^vib TfiVOinbtb alao, that no rule, order or regulation which shall be made and established by the said Corpora- tion in manner aforesaid, shall be of any force or effect until the same shall have been sanctioned and confirmed by the said Lord Bishop or Bishops as aforesaid. ^vib tDl)erfa0, since the passing of the said Act, the Council of the said College have, with the sanction of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, by their Petition to us humbly set forth, that in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act, Trinity College hath been duly organized, by the appoint- ment of Trustees and of a College Council, and that certain Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances have been made by the said Council, with the approval of the Lord Bishop of Toronto, and further that a suitable Building has been •wcted, and a Provost, and Professors in the faculties of ' b pBH . » IMma:'' 9 CHARTER OF TRINITY COLLCOE. 9 Divinity and the ArtH, and in Law and Medicine, have been duly appointed, and are now engaged in the eJnca- tion of a considerable number of Sciiolars, duly admitted according to the Statutes and Ordinances of the said Cor- poration, and the said College being, according to the intention of the said Act of the Legislature of our Province of Canada, in strict connexion with the United Church of England and Ireland, and supported wholly from funds contributed by the members of that Church, and humble application hath been made to us by the said Corporation, and many of our loving subjects in the said Province of Canada, that we would be pleased to grant our Royal Charter for the more perfect establishment of the said Col- lege, by granting to it the privileges hereinafter mentioned. JJ'on) kuOtD gC tl)at lUe, having taken the premises into our Royal consideration, and being willing to promote the more perfect establishment within the Diocese of Toron- to of a College in connection with the United Church of England and Ireland, for the education wf youth in the Doc- trines and duties of the Christian Religion as inculcated by that Church, and for theiv instruction in the various branches of Science and Literature which are taught in the Universi- ties of this Kingdom, have of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, willed, ordained and grant- ed, and do by these presents, for us, our heirs, and succes- sors, will, ordain and grant, that the said College shall be deemed, and taken to be a University, and shall have and enjoy all such and the like privileges as are enjoyed by our Universities of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as far as the same are capable of being had or enjoyed by virtue of these our Letters Patent ; and that the Students in the said College shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees of Bachelor, Master, and Doctor in the several Arts, and Faculties, at the appointed times, and shall have liberty within themselves of performing all Scholastic exercises, for the conferring such Degrees, in .^ ^:.^ '""^^, 6 CHAHTKR or TRINITY COLLEGE. such manner as sliuU be directed by llie Statutes, Rules and Ordinances of the naid College. %\bt in order that such Degrees may be in due form granted in the said College, iDc ^0 further will, and direct, and ordain, that there shall be at all times a Chancellor of the said University, to be chosen at and for such periods of lime, and under such rules and regulations as the College Council, by and with the sanction and approbation of the Lord Bishop or Bishops aforesaid, may by their Statutes, Rules, or Ordinances, to be from time to time passed for that purpose, think fit to appoint, 2lnb that the Chancellor, Provost and Professors of the said College, and all persons admitted therein to the degree t)f M. ster of Arts, or to any degree in Divinity, Law or Medicine, and who from the time of such their admission to such degree shall pay the annual sum of Twenty Shil- lings of sterling money for and towards the support and maintenance of the said College, shall be, and be deemed, taken and reputed to be members of the Convocation of the said University, and as such members of the said Convo- cation, shall have, exercise and enjoy all such powers and privileges in regard to conferring degrees, and in any other matters, as may be provided for by an^ rules, orders or regulations of the said College Council, sanctioned and confirmed by the Lord Bishop or Bishops as aforesaid, so far as the same are capable of being had and enjoyed by virtue of these our Letters Patent, and consistently with the provisions thereof, and with the said Act of the .Legis- lature of our Province of Canada. CAnb tDe toil!, and by these Presents for us, our heirs and Successors, do grant and declare, that these our Letters Patent, or the enrollment or exemplification thereof, shall and may be good, firm, valid, sufficient, and eflfectual in the Law, according to the true intent and meaning of. the. CHARTER OF TRINITY COt.LKGE. 7 same, and ahull be taken, construed, and adjudged in tlio most favorable and beneficial sense, and to the best advan- tage of our said College, as well in our Courts of Record as elsewhere, and by all and singular Judges, Justices, Officers, Ministers, and other subjects whatsoever of us, our heirs and successors, any mis-recital, non-recital, omission, imperff^ction, defect, matter, cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. 3n tUltne00 tDi)er