SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER,

MODIFYING CONDITIONS OF ORIGINAL CHARTER, AS TO SALE OF WINES, ETC.,

DATED 22ND DECEMBER, 1855.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 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 28th day of May, 1852, 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 our 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 thereinafter mentioned, within the meaning of the Act of Parliament passed in the Session of Parliament held in the 7th and 8th years of our reign, chapter 110, and that such Company was, on the 17th 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 completelyregistered in the manner and form prescribed by the said Act. And that it had been agreed that the capital of the Company should be £500,000 in 100,000 shares of £5 each. And reciting that one-fourth part of the Capital Stock of the said Company had

been subscribed for by the persons 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 our County of Middlesex, and the reconstruction thereof, or of 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 amongst all classes of the community, such objects, and the remuneration or price to be paid for admission being 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 £500,000 divided into 100,000 Shares of £5 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 is 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 advantages 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 14th day of June, 1852. AND WHEREAS it hath been further represented to us that by our Letters Patent, or Royal Charter of Incorporation under our Great Seal, bearing date on or about the 28th day of January, in the sixteenth year of our reign after reciting as hereinbefore recited, and reciting that it had been represented to us that the said Deed had been executed by persons who in the aggregate had subscribed for 65,000 Shares and upwards in the said Company, and that the sum of £348,000 and upwards had been paid up in respect of Shares in the said Company. And reciting that it had been further represented to us that the said sum of £500,000 might 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 thereinafter mentioned to raise and contribute amongst themselves in such Shares and proportions as they should think proper, or by the admission of new subscribers, any further or other sum of money not exceeding the sum of £500,000 sterling. And reciting that it had also been represented to us, that by a certain Instrument of Special Licence bearing date the 22nd day of September, 1852, 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 Licence 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 Trustees or Trustee thereof, for the purposes of the said Company, and again to sell and dispose of the lands, tenements, and hereditaments delineated

in a certain plan thereto annexed, and thereinafter more particularly described, and every or any part or parts thereof, and which said lands and tenements with the sites of buildings erected thereon, comprised an area of 389 acres, 3 roods, and 28 poles, or thereabouts, and were situated in the several parishes, townships, hamlets, or places of Battersea and Penge in our County of Surrey, and Beckenham and Lewisham in our County of Kent. And reciting that Samuel Laing and Arthur Anderson, Charles Lushington, John Scott Russell, Francis Fuller, Thomas Newman Farquhar, Charles Geach and Edward Sexton Pery Calvert, Esquires, the Directors of the said Company, and who had executed the said Deed, had by their petition to us, prayed that we should grant unto the said Company, our Royal Charter of Incorporation for the better completion and carrying into effect the objects and purposes of the said Company, and which we were minded to do. We did by our said Royal Charter, give, grant, and ordain that the said Samuel Laing, John Scott Russell, Francis Fuller, and all such other persons, and all bodies politic or corporate, as have become, or from time to time thereafter might become in the manner provided for by the said recited Indenture or Deed of Settlement, members of the said Copartnership or Company, and should hold Shares in the Capital thereof,· should be one body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Crystal Palace Company" for the purposes in the said Deed of Settlement mentioned, but subject nevertheless to the conditions, restrictions, regulations and provisions in the said Deed, and in our said Royal Charter contained, and so that the business of the said Company, so then Incorporated, might be carried on in all respects according to the terms and provisions of the said Indenture of Settlement, so far as the same were in conformity with the Laws of our Realm, and so far as the same were not inconsistent with or repugnant to our Royal Charter, and by that name should sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all Courts, whether in Law or Equity, as well in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as elsewhere, and should have perpetual succession with a Common Seal. And that we did by our said Royal Charter direct that the Board of Directors for the time being of the said Company, as con

stituted and provided by the said recited Deed of Settlement, or according to the provisions of any Bye Laws to be made in pursuance of the said Deed of Settlement, or of our said Royal Charter vested in them, and generally to do all acts which they should consider necessary for the well ordering the affairs of the said Company, so as the same should be done in conformity with the provisions of our said Royal Charter, and of the said Indenture of Settlement, or of any such Bye Laws as aforesaid. And that we did by our said Royal Charter, grant unto the said Crystal Palace Company, and that we did also will and direct that in case the sum of £500,000 sterling should 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, then and in such case it should be lawful for the members of the said Company for the time being, with the consent in writing of the President of the Lords of the Committee of our Privy Council for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, thereinafter called the Board of Trade in pursuance of any Resolution adopted at a General or Extraordinary Meeting of the said Company, and according to the provisions of any Supplemental Deed to be executed by the Shareholders of the said Company, to raise and contribute amongst themselves in such Shares and proportions as they should think proper, or by the admission of new Subscribers any further or other sum of money not exceeding the sum of £500,000 sterling, but so as not to enlarge the powers to purchase and hold more lands than was warranted by our said Royal Charter. And we did further declare that it should be lawful for the said Company to purchase, take, acquire, hold, and enjoy to them and to their successors, such lands, houses, offices, buildings, and other hereditaments of any tenure whatsoever, as were comprised and particularly described in the said hereinbefore in part recited Instrument of Special Licence, and delineated on the plan thereto annexed, and which were situated in the several parishes, townships, hamlets, or places of Battersea, Penge, Beckenham and Lewisham aforesaid, and to sell, convey, lease, and dispose of the same, or any part thereof, which should not be required for the purposes of the said undertaking, but so nevertheless, that the said