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Canada Company.

CHARTER

OF

INCORPORATION.

19TH AUGUST, 1826.

London:

PRINTED BY W. MARCHANT, INGRAM-COURT,
FENCHURCH-STREET.

1832.

Canada Company.

CHARTER OF INCORPORATION.

GEORGE THE FOURTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, To all to whom these presents shall come greeting: Whereas, in and by a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the sixth year of our reign, entitled, "An Act to enable His

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Majesty to grant to a Company, to be incorporated by Charter, to be called The Canada Company,' certain Lands in the Province of Upper Canada, and to invest the said Company with certain Powers and Privileges, and "for other Purposes relating thereto:" After reciting, amongst other things, that divers per

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sons had united together to establish a company for purchasing, improving, settling, and disposing of certain lands in the province of Upper Canada, and for other lawful purposes; and, in order to carry into effect the purposes aforesaid, had subscribed a capital of one million pounds sterling, upon which the sum of ten pounds per centum had been paid by the several subscribers, and had humbly besought us to grant to them a charter of incorporation: It was enacted, That in case we should, within three years after the passing of that act, be pleased, by charter of incorporation under the great seal of Great Britain and Ireland, to declare and grant that such and so many persons as should be named therein, and all and every such other person or persons as from time to time should be duly admitted members into their corporation, should be a body politic and corporate by the name of "The Canada Company," and to declare that the said corporation so to be made and created should be established for the purpose thereinbefore mentioned, and for such other lawful purposes as to us might seem meet; then, and in that case, it should and might be lawful for the said corporation to hold to them and their successors such lands, tenements, and hereditaments,

within the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as should or might be granted by us to them and their successors within the said provinces, or as (subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned) should be contracted for and purchased or acquired by them therein, and to hold, alienate, sell, and dispose of all such lands, tenements, and hereditaments upon, under, and subject to such conditions, provisos, limitations, and restrictions as we by such our charter might impose, direct, or prescribe: and further provisions were in and by the said act of parliament made for raising the capital of the said Company and transferring the shares, and for other matters therein mentioned.

Now know ye, that upon the prayer of the said several persons hereinafter named, and others, as also of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, we have given, granted, made, ordained, constituted, declared, and appointed, and by these presents, for us, our heirs, and successors, do give, grant, make, ordain, constitute, declare, and appoint, that Charles Bosanquet, Esq., William Williams, Esq., Robert Biddulph, Esq., Richard Blanshard, Esq., Robert Downie, Esq., John Easthope, Esq., Edward Ellice, Esq., James William Freshfield, Esq.,

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