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ly, meet at some convenient Place to be appointed by the ⚫ said Corporation, or major Part of them who shall be present at any Meeting of the said Corportion, to be had for the appointing of the said Place; and that they, or two Thirds of such of them that shall be present at such Yearly Meeting, and at no other Meeting of the said Corporation, between the Hours of Ten in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon of the same Day, chuse and elect such Person or Persons to be 'Members of the said Corporation, as they shall think beneficial to the good Designs of the said Corporation. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That if it shall happen that any Per'sons herein after by Us appointed as the Common Council of the said Corporation, or any Persons to be elected or ad'mitted Members of the said Common Council in the Manner hereafter directed, shall die, or shall by Writing under his and their Hands respectively resign his or their Office or Offices of Common Council Man or Common Council Men; the said Corporation, or the major Part of such of them as shall be present, shall and may at such Meeting, on the said third Thursday in March Yearly, in Manner as aforesaid, next after such Death or Resignation, and at no other Meeting of the said Corporation, into the room or place of such Person or Persons so dead or so resigning, elect and chuse one or more such Person or Persons, being Members of the said Corporation, as to them shall seem meet: And Our Will is, That all and every the Person or Persons which shall from Time to Time hereafter be elected Common Council Men of the said Corporation as aforesaid, do and shall, before he or they act as Common Council Men of the said Corporation, take an Oath for the faithful and due Execution of their Office; which Oath the President of the said Corporation for the Time being, is hereby authorized and required to administer to such Person or Persons elected as aforesaid. And Our Will and Pleasure is, That the first President of the said Corporation is and shall be Our Trusty and Well-beloved the said John Lord Viscount Purcival; and that the said President shall, within Thirty Days after the passing this CHARTER, cause a Summons to be issued to the several Members of the said Corporation herein particularly named, to meet at such Time and Place as he shall appoint, to consult about and transact the Businesses of the said Corporation. And Our Will and Pleasure is, and We, by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant, ordain and direct, That the Common Council of this Corporation, shall consist of Fifteen in Number; and We do, by these Presents, nominate, constitute and appoint Our Right

• Trusty and Well-beloved John Lord Viscount Purcival, Our Trusty and Beloved Edward Digby, George Carpenter, James Oglethorpe, George Heathcote, Thomas Laroche, James • Vernon, William Beletha, Esqrs. and Stephen Hales, Master of Arts, to be the Common Council of the said Corporation, to continue in the said Office during their good Behaviour. ' AND Whereas it is Our Royal Intention, That the Members ' of the said Corporation should be encreased by Election, as soon as conveniently may be, to a greater Number than is hereby nominated; Our further Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, ordain and direct, That from the Time of such Increase of the Members of the said Corporation, the Number of the Common Council 'shall be increased to Twenty four; and that the same Assembly ' at which such additional Members of the said Corporation shall 'be chosen, there shall likewise be elected, in the Manner herein before directed for the Election of Common Council Men, "Nine Persons to be the said Common Council Men, and to 'make up the Number Twenty four. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That Our Trusty and Well-beloved Edward Digby, Esq. shall be the first Chairman of the Common 'Council of the said Corporation; and that the said Lord Vis'count Purcival shall be and continue President of the said Corporation; and that the said Edward Digby shall be and ‹ continue Chairman of the Common Council of the said Corporation, respectively, until the Meeting which shall be had next and immediately after the first Meeting of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation respectively, and no longer: At which said second Meeting, and every other subsequent and future Meeting of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation respectively, in order to preserve an indifferent Rotation of the several Officers of President of the Corporation, and of Chairman of the Common Council of the said Corporation; We do direct and ordain, That all and every the Person and Persons Members of the said Common Council for the Time being, and no other, being present at such Meetings, shall severally and respectively in their Turns, preside at the Meetings which shall from Time to Time be held of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation respectively: And in case any Doubt or Question shall at any Time arise touching or concerning the Right of any Member ' of the said Common Council to preside, at any Meeting of the 'said Corporation, or at the Common Council of the said Corporation, the same shall respectively be determined by the

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major part of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation respectively, who shall be present ' at such Meeting. Provided always, That no Member of the 'said Common Council having served in the Offices of President of the said Corporation, or of Chairman of the Common • Council of the said Corporation, shall be capable of being or of serving as President or Chairman at any Meeting of the said Corporation or Common Council of the said Corporation, next and immediately ensuing that in which he so served as President of the said Corporation, or Chairman of the said • Common Council of the said Corporation respectively; unless it shall so happen, that at any such Meeting of the said Corporation there shall not be any other Member of the said Common Council present. And Our Will and Pleasure is, That at all and every of the Meetings of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation the President or Chairman for the Time being, shall have a Voice and shall vote and shall act as a Member of the said Corporation, or of the Common Council of the said Corporation, at such Meeting; and in case of any Equality of Votes, the said President or Chairman for the Time being, shall have a Lasting Vote. And Our further Will and Pleasure is, That no President of the said Corporation, or Chairman of the Common Council of the said Corporation, or Member of the said Common Council or Corporation, by Us by these Presents appointed, or hereafter from Time to time to be elected and appointed in manner aforesaid, shall have, take or receive, directly, or indirectly any Salary, Fee, Perquisite, Benefit or Profit whatsoever, for or by Reason of his or their serving the said Corporation, or Common Council of the said Corporation, or President, Chair⚫ man or Common Council Man, or as being a Member of the 'said Corporation. And Our will and Pleasure is, That the ⚫ said herein before appointed President, Chairman or Common Council Men, before he and they act respectively as such, shall severally take an Oath for the faithful and due Execution of their Trust, to be administred to the President by the Chief Baron of Our Court of Exchequer, for the Time being, and by the President of the said Corporation to the rest of the Common Council, who are hereby authorized severally and respectively, to administer the same. And Our Will and • Pleasure is, That all and every Person and Persons who shall have, in his or their own Name or Names, or in the Name or Names of any Person or Persons in Trust for him or them, or for his or their Benefit, any Office, Place or Employment of Profit, under the said Corporation, shall be incapable of being

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elected a Member of the said Corporation; and if any Member of the said Corporation, during such Time as he shall continue a Member thereof, shall in his own Name, or in the Name of any Person or Persons in Trust for him, or for his Benefit, have, hold, exercise, accept, possess or enjoy any Office, Place or Employment of Profit under the said Corporation, or under the Common Council of the said Corporation; such Member shall from the Time of his having, holding, exercising, accepting, possessing and enjoying such Office, Place and Employment of Profit, cease to be a Member of the said Corporation. And We do, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, grant unto the said Corporation and their Successors, That they and their Successors, or the major part of such of them as shall be present at any Meeting of the said Corporation, conven'd and assembled for that Purpose by a convenient Notice thereof, shall have Power from Time to Time and at all Times hereafter, to authorize and appoint such Persons as they shall think fit, to take Subscriptions, and to gather and col'lect such Mónies as shall be by any Person or Persons contributed for the Purposes aforesaid, and shall and may revoke and make void such Authorities and Appointments as often as they shall see Cause so to do. And We do hereby, for Us, our Heirs and Successors, ordain and direct, That the said · Corporation every Year lay an Account in Writing before the Chancellor or Speaker or Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of Great Britain, of Us, Our Heirs and Successors, the Chief Justice of the Court of Kings-Bench, the Master of the Rolls, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common-Pleas, and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, of Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for the Time being, or any Two of them, of all Monies and Effects by them received or expended for the carrying on the good Purposes aforesaid. And We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, give and grant 'unto the said Corporation and their Successors, full Power and Authority to constitute, ordain and make such and so many By-Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, as to them or the greater part of them, at their General Meeting for that Purpose, shall seem necessary and convenient for the well Ordering and Governing of the said Corporation, and the said By-Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, or any of them, to alter and annul as they or the major part of them then present shall see requisite; and in and by such By-Laws, Rules, Orders and Ordinances, to set, impose and inflict rea'sonable Pains and Penalties upon any Offender or Offenders who shall transgress, break or violate the said By Laws.

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Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, so made as aforesaid, and to mitigate the same as they or the major part of them then present shall think convenient; which said Pains and Penalties shall and may be levied, sued for, taken, retained ' and recovered by the said Corporation and their Successors, by their Officers and Servants from Time to Time to be appointed for that Purpose, by Action of Debt, or by any other lawful Ways or Means, to the Use and Behoof of the said Corporation and their Successors; all and singular which By-Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, so as afore'said to be made, WE WILL, shall be duly observed and kept, under the Pains and Penalties therein to be contained, so always, as the said By-Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, 'Pains and Penalties, from Time to Time to be made and imposed, be reasonable, and not contrary or repugnant to the Laws or Statutes of this Our Realm; and that such By-Laws, Constitutions and Ordinances, Pains and Penalties, from Time to Time 'to be made and imposed; and any Repeal or Alteration thereof, or any of them, be likewise agreed to, be established and confirmed by the said General Meeting of the said Corporation, to be held and kept next after the same shall be respectively made. AND WHEREAS the said Corporation intend to settle a Colony, and to make an Habitation and Plantation in that Part of Our Province of South-Carolina in America, herein after described; KNOW YE, That We, greatly desiring the happy Success of the said Corporation, for their further Encouragement in accomplishing so excellent a Work, Have, of Our ''foresaid Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, Given and Granted, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, do Give and Grant to the said Corporation and their Successors, under the Reservation, Limitation and Decla'ration hereafter expressed, Seven undivided Parts, the Whole in Eight equal Parts to be divided, of all those Lands, Countries and Territories situate, lying and being in that Part of South-Carolina, in America, which lies from the most Northern · part of a Stream or River there, commonly called The Savannah, all along the Sea Coast to the Southward, unto the most 'Southern Stream of a certain other great Water or River call'ed The Alatamaha, and Westerly from the Heads of the said · Rivers respectively in direct Lines to the South Seas; and all that Share, Circuit and Precinct of Land within the said Boundaries, with the Islands on the Sea lying opposite to the Eastern "Coast of the said Lands, within Twenty Leagues of the same, which are not inhabited already, or settled by any Authority derived from the Crown of Great Britain, together with all