of Settlement, and doth hereby declare that such Counterparts or triplicates so executed shall be of the like force and effect as if they had been executed by him or her in person, and doth hereby agree to ratify and confirm whatsoever such Attorney may lawfully do in the premises by virtue of this present power.

IN WITNESS whereof, each of the parties hereto, of the the first part, hath to these presents set his or her hand and seal, and hath also delivered the same as his or her act and deed on the several days respectively mentioned in the Schedule of Signatures hereunto annexed in the presence of the person whose name is also set and subscribed in the line, and immediately opposite to the signature and seal of such party as the witness attesting the same. And the said Charles Geach and Francis Fuller have hereunto set their hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE to which the above written Indenture doth refer.

FORM A.-CERTIFICATE OF SHARE.

THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.-First completely Registered on the 14th day of June, 1852.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY that

Proprietor of the above Share, No.

is the

of the Crystal

Palace Company, subject to the regulations of the said Company, and that in respect of such Share the full payment of £5 has been made.

Given under the Common Seal of the Company

the year 185

day of

in the

(L. S.)

FORM B.-TRANSFER OF SHARES.

day of

THIS INDENTURE made the the year of our Lord, 185 Between A. B. of the one part and C. D. of the other part. Witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of paid to the said A. B. by the said C. D., the receipt thereof is hereby acknowledged, the said A. B. doth transfer and assign unto the said C. D., his executors, administrators, and assigns, Shares, numbered

in the said Company. To hold the same unto the said C. D., his executors, administrators and assigns, subject to the several conditions on which I hold the same at the time of the execution hereof. And I the said C. D., do hereby agree to take the said Shares, subject to the said conditions, and to the provisions of the Deed or Deeds of Settlement of the said Company. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

FORM C.-APPOINTMENT OF PROXY.

2

Shareholder in the Crystal

of

I, A. B., of Palace Company, do hereby appoint M to vote for me, and in my name, and as he shall think fit upon, [here insert the particular proposition, question, occasion, matter, or thing in which the proxy is to be authorized to vote, if he is to be appointed for a special purpose only, and if he is appointed to vote generally, insert the following words, "Upon any question, proposition, occasion, matter, or thing in which the votes of the Shareholders may be taken, until I shall by some writing under my hand, of which notice shall be given to the Board of Directors or Secretary of the Company, at the Office thereof, expressly revoke the appointment."]

Dated this

day of

185

CHARTER OF INCORPORATION,

DATED JANUARY 28TH, 1853.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain aud Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, To all to whom these presents shall come, GREETING. WHEREAS it hath been represented unto us, by an Indenture bearing date on or about the twenty-eighth day of May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, expressed to be made between the several persons whose names are thereunto subscribed and whose seals are thereunto affixed (exclusive of the persons next thereinafter named) of the first part, and Charles Geach of Park Street, in the City and Liberty of Westminster, Esquire, and Francis Fuller of Abingdon Street, in the said City and Liberty, Esquire, therein described as Trustees for giving effect to the covenants thereinafter expressed or contained, of the second part. After reciting that the parties thereto had agreed to form a Partnership or Joint Stock Company, for the purposes thereafter mentioned within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, passed in the seventh and eighth years of our Reign, Chapter 110, and that such Company was on the seventeenth day of the said month of May provisionally registered under the said Act by the name of "The Crystal Palace Company," and that it was intended that the same should be completely registered in the manner and form prescribed by the said Act, and that it had been agreed that the Capital of the said Company should be Five hundred thousand pounds in One hundred thousand shares of Five Pounds each. And reciting that one-fourth part of the Capital Stock of the said Company had been subscribed for by the parties thereto, and that the number of shares in the said Capital taken or to be taken by the said parties thereto respectively was written opposite to their names and seals respectively subscribed and affixed to the

said Indenture. And reciting that it had been agreed that such of the shares of the said Capital as had not at the date of the said Indenture been subscribed for should be disposed of as thereinafter provided to such persons and in such manner in all respects as the Directors of the said Company for the time being might determine. And that by the said Indenture the said parties thereto of the first part did covenant and agree to pay up and contribute the amount of their respective shares in the capital of the Company in manner in the said Indenture mentioned. And that the objects and business of the said Company should be the purchasing of the Great Exhibition Building in Hyde Park, in the County of Middlesex, and the construction thereof or any part thereof or of any addition thereto on another site, the forming and maintaining Conservatories, Parks, and Museums in or in conjunction with the said Building for the illustration of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, and the cultivation of a refined taste among all classes of the community; such objects and the remuneration or price to be paid for admission to be carried out under the superintendence of the Directors thereinafter mentioned; and that the said Partnership or Company should continue until dissolved under the provisions thereinafter contained or to be contained in any Charter or Act of Parliament thereafter to be granted or obtained by or on behalf of the said Company; and that the Capital Stock of the Company should consist of Five hundred thousand pounds divided into One hundred thousand shares of Five pounds each as aforesaid. And that the said Capital should be paid up and contributed either on the execution of the said Indenture and the complete Registration of the Company, or at such other time or times and on such Calls as the said Directors should from time to time require or appoint. And that the Board of Directors of the said Company should have full power when and as they should think fit to accept from us, and in the name and for the purposes of the said Company, a grant of any Charter as therein mentioned, and by such Charter to take powers for the Company to extend their business, and all such other powers, privileges, immunities, rights, benefits, and adventures, as the Directors might think advisable or advantageous. AND WHEREAS it hath been further represented to us that the said Company

has obtained a Certificate of complete Registration under the several Acts for the Registration, Incorporation, and Regulation of Joint Stock Companies, on the fourteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two. AND WHEREAS it hath been further represented to us that the said Deed hath been executed by persons who in the aggregate have subscribed for Sixty-five thousand shares and upwards in the said Company, and that the sum of Three hundred and forty-eight thousand pounds and upwards has been paid up in respect of shares in the said Company. AND WHEREAS it hath been further represented to us that the said sum of Five hundred thousand pounds may be found insufficient in the opinion of a majority of the Directors of the said Company to carry into full effect the beneficial purposes aforesaid, and that in such case it should be lawful for the members of the said Company for the time being, in pursuance of any Resolution to be adopted at a General or Extraordinary Meeting of the said Company, and to be confirmed by the execution of a Supplemental Deed by the Members of the said Company, with such consent as hereinafter mentioned, to raise and contribute amongst themselves, in such shares and proportions as they shall think proper, or by the admission of New Subscribers, any further or other sums of money not exceeding the sum of Five hundred thousand pounds sterling. AND WHEREAS it hath also been represented to us that by a certain instrument of Special Licence, bearing date the twenty-second day of September, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, the Lords of the Committee of our Privy Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations did grant a License to the said Company by the name or style of "The Crystal Palace Company," to purchase, take, acquire, and hold in the name of the said Company or of the Trustee or Trustees thereof, for the purposes of the said Company, and again to sell and dispose of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments with the sites delineated in a certain plan thereunto annexed, and thereinafter more particularly described, and every or any part or parts thereof, and which lands and hereditaments with the sites of buildings erected thereon comprise an area of Three hundred and eighty-nine acres, three roods, and twenty-eight poles or thereabouts, and