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abgence of the Mancellor and Vice-Chancellor, unless six
Fellows at the least shall be present at the time of such
decision.

That at every meeting of the said Chancellor, Vice-Chan-
cellor, and Fellows, the Chancellor, or in his absence, the
Vice-Chancellor, shall preside as chairman, or, in the absence
of both, a chairman shall be chosen by the members present,
or the major part.
That the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows for
the time being, shall have full power from time to time to ap-
point, and, as they shall see occasion, to remove all necessary
examiners, officers, and servants of the said University.
That once at least in every year the said Chancellor, Vice-
Chancellor, and Fellows, shall cause to be held an examina-
tion of candidates for degrees, and on every such examination
the candidates shall be examined either by examiners appointed
for the purpose from among the Fellows by the said Chancel-
lor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows, or by other examiners so
to be appointed; and that on every such examination the can-
didates shall be examined in as many branches of general
knowledge as the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Fel-
lows shall consider the most fitting subjects of such exami.
nation.

And whereas it is expedient to extend the benefits of col-
leges and establishments already instituted, or which may be
hereafter instituted, for the promotion of literature and science,
whether incorporated or not incorporated, by connecting them
for such purposes with the university created by this our royal
charter. We do hereby further will and ordain that all per-
sons shall be admitted as candidates for the respective de-
grees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws,
or Doctor of Laws, to be conferred by the said University of
London, on presenting to the said Chancellor, Vice-Chan-
cellor, and Fellows, a certificate from any of the institutions
hereinafter mentioned, to the effect that such candidate has
completed the course of instruction which the said Chancellor,
Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows by regulation in that behalf shall
determine.
That such certificates as aforesaid may be granted from
our college called London University College, or from our
college called King's College, or from such other institution,
corporate or unincorporated, as now is or hereafter shall be
established for the purposes of education, whether in the me-
tropolis or elsewhere within our United Kingdom, and as we,
under our sign manual, shall hereafter authorise to issue such
certificates.
And for the purpose of granting the degrees of Bachelor of
Medicine, and Doctor of Medicine, and for the improvement of
medical education in all its branches, as well in medicine as in
surgery, midwifery, and pharmacy, we do further hereby will
and ordain that the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and
Fellows shall from time to time report to one of our principal
Secretaries of State what appear to them to be the medical
institutions and schools, ishether corporate or unincorporated, in
this our metropolis, or in other parts of our United Kingdom,
from which, in the judgment of the said Chancellor, Vice-
Chancellor, and Fellows, it may be fit and expedient to admit
candidates for medical degrees, and on approval of such report
by our said Secretary of State, shall admit all persons as can-
didates for the respective degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and
Doctor of Medicine to he conferred by the said University, on
presenting to the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fel-
lows a certificate from any such institution or school, to the
effect that such candidate has completed the course of instruc-
tion which the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows
by regulation in that behalf shall determine ; and it shall be
lawful for the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows,
from time to time, with the approval of one of our principal
Secretaries of State, to vary, alter, and amend any such re-
ports, by striking out any of the said institutions or schools in-
cluded therein, or by adding others thereunto.
That the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows
shall have power to confer the several degrees of Bachelor of
Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws, Doctor of Laws,
Bachelor of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, and
.that such
reasonable fees shard be charged for the degrees so con-
ferred as the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows,
with the approbation of the Commissioners of our Treasury
shall from time to time direct ; and such fees shall be carried
to ore general fee-fund for the payment of the expenses of
the said University, under the directions and regulations of
the Commissioners of onr Treasury, to whom the accounts
of income and expenditure of the said University shall once
in every year be submitted, which accounts shall be sub-
ecc to such examination and audit as the said Commissioners
cagy direct.
That at the conclusion of every examination of the candi-
dates, the examiners shall declare the name of every candi-
date whom they shall have deemed to be entitled to any of the
said degrees, and the departments of knowledge in which his
proficiency shall have been evinced, and also his proficiency in
relation to that of other candidates, and he shall receive from
the said Chancellor a certificate, under the seal of the said
University of London, and signed by the said Chancellor, in
which the particulars so declared shall be stated.
Provided always, that all by-laws and regulations made from
time to time, touching the examinations of candidates, and
granting cf degrees shall be submitted for the consideration of
one of our principal Secretaries of State, to be approved of
by him.
And lastly, we do hereby for us, our heirs, and successors,
grant and declare that these our letters patent, or the enrol-
ment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and by all things
valid and effectual in law, according to the true intent and
meaning of the same, and shall be construed and adjudged
in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best ad-
vantage of the said University, as well as in all our Courts as
elsewhere, notwithstanding any non-recital, mis-recital, un-
certainty, or imperfection, in these our letters patent. In
witness, &c.
COPY OF THE DRAUGHT CHARTER FOR LON-
DON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

William IV., by the grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, to
all whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas our
right trusty and right entirely beloved cousin, Edward Adol-
phus Duke of Somerset, and our trusty and well-beloved John
Smith, Esq., and Stephen Lushington, Doctor of Civil Law,
have presented their petition to us, setting forth that they, to-
gether with divers others of our loving subjects, had founded
in the neighbourhood of London an institution for the general
advancement of literature and science, by affording to young
man adequate opportunities for obtaining literary and scientific
education at a moderate expense, and that they had subscribed
end collected considerable sums of money for the purpose of
carrying on the said undertaking, and with the same view had
purchased a piece of land in the parish of St. Pancras, in
our county of 341iddlesex, and had caused to be erected thereon
a building, comprising halls, schools, and lecture-rooms,
together with museums, libraries, and other buildings, and
offices proper and suitable for conducting the said insti-
tution, and thereby !facilitating the instruction of youth ;
and further setting forth, that for better prosecuting
the same design, an indenture, or deed of settlement, bearing
date the 11th day of February, 1826, had been duly made and
executed by and between the several persons whose names
are therein expressed to be parties thereto, and which in.
denture or deed bath been duly enrolled in our High Court
of Chancery, and contains the several regulations and provi-
sions under and subject to which the said institution was pro-
posed to be conducted ; and it was further alleged by the peti-
tioners that they had been advised that the success of their un-
dertaking, and the advancement of sound learning and science,
would be more effectually attained and promoted were the
same to receive our royal sanction and confirmation, and they
therefore most humbly besought us to grant them, and to
the other persons who had already contributed, or should
thereafter contribute, any sum or sums of money towards car-
rying on the said institution, our royal charter of incorporation
for the purposes aforesaid. Now, know ye that we, highly ap-
proving and being desirous of encouraging so laudable a de-
sign, have for the better carrying on the same, of our especial
grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, willed, granted,
constituted, and declared, and do by these presents, for us,
our heirs, and successors, will, grant, constitute, and declare,
that for the purpose of establishing and maintaining the said
institution, the said Edward Adolphus Duke of Somerset,
John Smith, and Stephen Lushington, and all other the per-
sons who, according to the terms of the said indenture of the
11th day of February, 1836, are, or shall be, proprietors thereof,
shall for the time being, and all the persons who, according
to the terms of the said indenture, are or shall be " donors"
thereof, shall during their lives, and all persons who shall
at any period hereafter become proprietors or donors, accord-
ing to such by-laws as shall be hereafter made or established
as to such proprietors, shall for the time being, and as to such
donors shall for life be, and they are by virtue of these pre-
sents constituted one body politic and corporate for the pur-
poses aforesaid, by the name of London University College,
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, out heirs and suc-
cessors. And we do hereby will and order, that by the same
name they and their successors shall be for ever able and capable
in law to take, purchase, receive, possess, hold, and enjoy to
them and their successors any goods, chattels, or personal pre-
perty whatsoever, and also be able and capable in law (notwith-
standing the statutes in mortmain) to take, purchase, hold, and
enjoy to them and their successors, not only the said piece of
land so already puichased as aforesaid, together with such other
lands, buildings, hereditaments, and possessions, as may be from
time to time exclusively used and occupied for the immediate
purposes of the said college, but also any other messuages,
lands, tenements, or hereditaments whatsoever, the yearly value
of which, including the site of the said college, shall not exceed
in the whole the sum of 10,0001., computing the same respec-
tively at the rack-rent which may have been had or gotten for
the same respectively at the time of the purchase or acqui-
tion thereof, and to act in all the concerns of the body politic
and corporate for the purposes aforesaid, as fully and effec-
Ireland,
tually to all intents, effects, constructions, and purposes what-
soever, as any other our liege subjects, or any other body po-
litic or corporate in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
re-
spective concerns.
teberening under any disability, might do in their. re_
and s. And we do hereby grant our special li-
censements, not exceedingotl .siie-h
authority unto all and every person and persons,
bodies politic
sell, alien,
andaned corporate, otherwise competent, to grant,
said college anyonvey
further, that the
( in mortmain unto and to the use of
.tbe
messuages lands, tenements, or heredita-
'annual,va‘lue as , aforesaid. • And
nzldfo.r. the time being of the said college
ebmuptoonelrydv;ithin they are hereby empowered in like
thepromoting
tintent aforesaid, to accept gifts
manner, shall be
forin Pari°ol of the particular objects of educa-
tion,between the council and the person or t-e general purposes of the said
and eonrdoovstiimereinritsso
college, on such terms and conditions as may be agreed on
for the purpose,
per-
sons bestowing such gift or endowment; provided always,
that the said terms and conditions be not inconsistent
with any of the provisions of this our charter or with
the laws or statutes of this our realm. And' our will
and pleasure is, and we further grant and declare, that