The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
ROYAL CHARTER IS
 GRANTED BY KING
ENGLAND IS IN EARNEST ABOUT RAISING HER OWN COTTON AND DOING AWAY WITH DEPEND ENcE ON OTHERS.

Washington. October 24-(speciaD-T royal charter granted by King Edward has just been delivered to the British Cotton Growing association, writes Con- sul Mahin of Nottingham. Eng. It is ex- pected to be of great assistance to that organization in the work 1t has undertak- en-to relieve Great Britain as far as possible of the necessity of importing cotton from the United States and other foreign countries. Summarized, the char ter provides as follows:
 The association, the objects and pur- poses of which are to extend and promote the growing and cultivation of cotton and fibrous substances or products in British dominions, protectorates, protected states, and in Africa, shall always be and re- main British in character and domicile and shall have it's principal office in Great Britain; and the members of the council shall always be natural born British subjects, or persons who have been neutralized as British subjects.
 The original share capital of the asso- citation is to be 95OO,OOO ($2, 433,250), divided into 500OO0 shares of q (s4SD, and the association is authorized and empowered from time to time to issue shares of diff ferent denominations and classes, and with or without special privileges, prefer entlal or otherwise; to subscribe for, pur- chase, or take up shares in any com pany or corporation, whose objects are similar or may be subservient to the ob- Jects of the association; to apply for, &C., quire, and hold from the government of any British dominlons, protectorates, or protected states, or from the government faf fOra aI<r,. .-..Is nances, concessions, licenses, patents or other privileges rights or powers and to exercise and give effect to any powers, rights, or privileges so obtained; to buy and sell cotton and any of it's by-products, and any goods or articles incidental to cotton growing, and to establish and pro vide stations and storage for such pur- poses; to acquire and hold lands in the United Kingdom not exceeding the annual value of f5000 ($24333), and not exceeding twenty acres in all at any one time, for the purposes of the offices and business of the association, and from time to time to let or lease or otherwise deal with or dispose of any such lands when not re- quired for those purposes. and to estab- fish and maintain agencies in British do- minions, protectorates, protected states, and elsewhere.
 Subject to the control of the association in general meeting and to the bylaws for the time being In force the council shall have the sole and entire manage ment of the business of the association and of the income and property. The council may also appoint such commit tees and subcommittee and delegate to them such powers and duties as may seem expedient. Branch committees of the association may from time to time be appointed for the purpose of carrying out the purpose and objects of the asso- citation In particular countries or dis tricts, and may be dissolved. The con- stitution of such committees and the areas In which they respectively are to act, the powers to be delegated to them. the mode in which their business Is to be conducted, and their dissolution shall be determined by the council subject to the bylaws for the being In force.
 Subject to the control of the associa- ton In general meeting. the council shall have power from time to time to make bylaws for the association, and from tune to time to alter or revoke any bylaws heretofore made. Until such bylaws take effect, and subject thereto or until other wise determined by resolution of the as- sociation in general meeting, Sir Alfred Lewis Jones Is to be the president Of the associatioA; Sir William Henry Houlds- worth. M. P, Sir Frank Forbes Adam and Mr Alfred Emmott, M. P, vice presi- dents; Mr. Benjamin Capper and MT. Ed win Stansfield, treaurers; and MT. John Charles Atkins, secretafy of the assoeia- ton.