President shall each have a vote, as other members of the meeting, and in case of an even division the President shall have and give an additional or casting vote;

That no act in the premises shall be done at any such annual meeting, unless there be forty members thereof or upwards, present at the doing thereof, and the act of a majority of the members present shall be the act of the meeting;

That, the election and appointment of all Trustees and Visitors of the said Academy by the said annual meeting, and all other their acts in the premises, shall be recorded in a book by the Secretary for the time being, and after being read aloud in the meeting by the Secretary for the time being, shall be signed by him and by the President for the time being, and being so signed, shall, so far as the same be not repugnant to this our Charter, or to any such law as aforesaid, be binding on the said Ministers, and on all the members of the said corporation, and all persons claiming under them.

That, in case the said Act of our said Province herein before mentioned, shall be hereafter at any time, or from time to time, altered or repealed in whole or in part, and any other provision or enactment shall at any time or times hereafter be added to the said Act, or substituted for the same or any part thereof so repealed, and by which added or substituted enactment, the Ministers of the said Weslyan Methodist Church, in our said Province, shall be authorized to solemnize matrimony, this our Charter, shall for all and every the intents, purposes, and privileges of this our Charter, be held to have reference to, and shall have reference to every such added or substituted enactment as fully and effectually as the same now has to the said Act herein before mentioned.

And lastly, we do hereby for Us, our heirs and successors, grant and declare that these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things valid and effectual in the law according to the true in'ent and meaning of the same, and shall be construed and adjudged in the most favorable and beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Academy, as well in all our Courts of every part of our Dominion as elsewhere, notwithstanding any non-recital, mis-recital, uncertainty, or imperfection in these Our Letters Patent.

In testimony whereof, we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed.

Witness, our trusty and well-beloved Sir Francis Bond Head, K. C. H., &c., &c., &c., Lieutenant-Governor of our said Province, at our City of Toronto, this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and in the seventh year of our reign.

By Command of His Excellency,

D. CAMERON, Secretary.

F. H. B.

APPENDIX H.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE CHARTER.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., &c.

To all to whom these Presents shall come-GREETING :

Whereas the establishment of a College within the Province of Upper Canada, in North America, in connection with the Church of Scotland, for the education of youth in the principles of the Christian religion, and for their instruction in the various branches of science and literature, would greatly conduce to the welfare of our said Province; and whereas humble application hath been made to us by the Rev. Robert McGill, Moderator of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of Scotland, and the Rev. Alexander Gale, Clerk of the said Synod, and the several other persons hereinafter named, to make them a body corporate and politic for the purposes aforesaid and hereinafter mentioned, by granting to them our Royal Charter of incorporation, and to permit them to use our Royal title in the name or style thereof;

Now know ye that we, having taken the premises into our Royal consideration, and duly weighing the great utility and importance of such an institution, have, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, granted, constituted, declared, and appointed, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do grant, constitute, declare, and appoint the said Robert McGill and Alexander Gale, the Rev. John McKenzie, the Rev. William Rintoul, the Rev. William T. Leach, the Rev. James George, the Rev. John Machar, the Rev. Peter Colin Campbell, the Rev. John Cruikshank, the Rev. Alexander Mathieson (Doctor in Divinity the Rev. John Cook (Doctor in Divinity), and the Principal of th said college for the time being, Ministers of the Presbyterian Church

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of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland; the Honorable John Hamilton, the Honorable James Crooks, the Honorable William Morris, the Honorable Archibald McLean, the Honorable John McDonald, the Honorable Peter McGill, Edward W. Thompson, Thomas McKay, James Morris, John Ewart, John Steele, John Mowat, Alexander Pringle, John Nunn, and John Strang, Esquires, members of the said Church, and all and every such other person and persons as now is, or are, or shall or may at any time or times hereafter be Ministers of the Fresbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland, or members of the said Presbyterian Church in such connection and in full communion with the said Presbyterian Church, shall be and be called one body corporate and politic in deed and in law, by the name and style of "Queen's College at Kingston," and them by the name of 'Queen's College at Kingston," we do for the purposes aforesaid and hereinafter mentioned, really and fully for us our heirs, and successors make, erect, create, ordain, constitute, establish, confirm, and declare by these presents to be one body politic and corporate in deed and in name: And that they and their successors by that name shall and may have perpetual succession as a College, with the style and privileges of an university, for the education and instruction of youth and students in arts and faculties; and shall also have and may use a common seal, with power to break, change, alter, or make new the same seal, as often as they shall judge expedient, and that they and their successors by the name aforesaid shall and may forever hereafter be able in law and in equity to sue and be sued, inplead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all courts and places whatsoever, and also to have, take, receive, purchase, acquire, hold, possess, enjoy, and maintain in law to and for the use of the said College any messuages lands, tenements, and hereditaments of what kind, nature, or quality soever, so as that the same do not exceed in yearly value, above all charges, the sum of £15,000 sterling: and also that they and their successors shall have power to take, purchase, acquire, have, hold, enjoy, receive, possess, and retain all or any goods, chattels, moneys, stocks, charitable or other contributions, gifts, benefactions, or bequests whatsoever, and to give, grant, bargain,

sell, demise, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the same, or of any other property, real personal, or other, they may at any time or times possess or be entitled to, as to them shall seem best for the interest of the said College.

And we do further will, ordain, and grant, that the said College shall be deemed and taken to be an university; 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 conferring such degrees in such manner as shall be directed by the statutes, rules, and ordinances of the said College.

And we do further will, ordain, and appoint that no religious test or qualification shall be required of, or appointed for any persons admitted or matriculated as scholars within our said College, or of or for persons admitted to any degree in any art or faculty therein, save only that all persons admitted within our said College to any degree of Divinity shall make such and the same declarations and subscriptions as are required of persons admitted to any degree of Divinity in our University of Edinburgh.

And for the better execution of the purposes aforesaid, and for the more regular government of the said corporation, we do declare and grant that the said corporation and their successors shall forever have twenty-seven trustees, of whom twelve shall be Ministers of the said Presbyterian Church of Canada, and fifteen shall be laymen in full communion with the said Church; and that the said several persons hereinbefore named, and the Principal of the said College for the time being, shall be the first and present trustees of the said corporation, and shall respectively continue in such office until others shall be appointed in their stead, in pursuance of these our Letters Patent.

And we further will that the said trustees of the said corporation herein before particularly named, shall continue in and hold the office of trustees until the several days and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, three Ministers and four laymen, whose names stand lowest in these our Letters Patent, shall retire from the said Board of Trustees on the first day of the annual meet