Ireland, bearing date the eleventh day of December, in the thirteenth year of our reign, We did increase the number of Professors in said Queen's College, Galway, and constitute Rules, Statutes, and Ordinances for the government of the same. Now, know ye, that We have revoked and determined, and do by these presents revoke and determine the said recited Letters Patent, and every clause, article, and thing therein contained respectively:

And deeming it to be the duty of our Royal Office to afford to all classes and denominations of our faithful subjects, without any distinction of religious creed whatsoever, an opportunity for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education under the provisions of the said recited Act:

Know ye therefore, that WE, of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, by and with the advice and consent of our right trusty and right well beloved cousin and councillor, George William Frederick, Earl of Carlisle, K.G., our Lieutenant-General and General Governor of that part of our said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called Ireland, and according to the tenor of our Letter, under our Privy Signet and Royal Sign Manual, bearing date at our Court of St. James, the tenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of our reign, and now enrolled in the rolls of our High Court of Chancery in that part of our said United Kingdom called Ireland, have willed, ordained, constituted, declared, and appointed, and by these presents for Us, our heirs and successors, We do will, ordain, constitute, declare, and appoint that in or near Galway, in the province of Connaught, in Ireland, there shall and may be established one perpetual College for Students in all such courses of education and branches of knowledge as may be pursued in the Colleges of any University in our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which College shall be called by the name of "Queen's College, Galway"; and shall consist of one President, and such number of Professors, not at any one time exceeding thirty in number, as have been or shall be appointed under and by virtue of the provisions of the Act herein before in part recited, Professors of Queen's College, Galway, created by our said Letters Patent of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, or of the College created by this our Charter.

And We do, by these presents, for Us, our heirs and

successors, will, declare, and establish that the President and Professors of the said College, and their successors for ever, shall be one distinct and separate body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the President and Professors of Queen's College, Galway, and that by the same name they shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and that they and their successors shall, from time to time, have full power to break, alter, make new, and change such common seal, at their will and pleasure, and as shall be found expedient; and that by the same name, the said President and Professors, and their successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, and be able and capable to have, take, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, and retain. And WE do hereby, for Us, our heirs and successors, give and grant full authority and free licence to them and their successors, by the name aforesaid, notwithstanding any Statute or Statutes of Mortmain, to have, take, receive, hold, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and their successors, not only all such lands, buildings, hereditaments, and possessions as may be from time to time used and occupied for the immediate purposes of the said College, but also any other messuages, lands, tenements, rents, and hereditaments of what kind, nature, or quality soever, so as that such messuages, lands, tenements, rents, and hereditaments do not exceed in yearly value the sum of ten thousand pounds, above all charges, such annual value to be calculated and ascertained at the period of taking, purchasing, or acquiring the same; and moreover, to take, purchase, acquire, have, hold, enjoy, receive, possess, and retain, notwithstanding any such Statute or Statutes to the contrary, all or any goods, chattels, personal property, charitable and other contributions, gifts, and benefactions whatsoever; and to grant, demise, alien, or otherwise dispose of the property, real or personal, belonging to the said College, provided that no such grant, demise, alienation, or other disposition shall be made contrary to the provisions of the said Act of Parliament; and to do all other matters incidental or appertaining to a body politic and corporate, in as large, ample, and beneficial a manner as any other corporate body or any other our liege subjects are capable in law of doing.

And WE do hereby for Ourselves, our heirs and successors, will, order, and direct that the President and Professors of the said College, and their successors, and also the Students

admitted to the said College, and the Office-bearers and Servants thereof, shall be regulated and governed according to the Statutes of the said College, which Statutes herein are or hereafter shall be framed, made, and approved of by Us, our heirs, and successors, and shall and may, all, every, and any of them, be revoked, repealed, changed, augmented, altered, or made new, by writing under our or their Sign Manual, as to Us, our heirs and successors, from time to time shall seem meet and expedient; and all and singular which Statutes so to be framed, made, and approved of as aforesaid, WE do, for Us, our heirs and successors, charge, and command to be strictly and inviolably observed, kept, and performed, from time to time, so long as they shall respectively remain in full vigour and effect, under the penalties to be thereby or therein inflicted or contained.

And in order the better to carry our will and intention into execution in this behalf, We have constituted, and by these presents, for Us, our heirs and successors, do constitute the several persons heretofore nominated to the several offices of Visitor, President, Vice-President, Professor, Registrar, Bursar, and Librarian in Queen's College, Galway, created by our said Letters Patent of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, the President, Vice-President, Professor, Registrar, Bursar, and Librarian, in the College created by this our Charter.

And We do hereby further will, declare, and direct that the lands, buildings, goods, chattels, and property of the College created by our said Letters Patent of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, shall be and become the property of the College created by this our Charter; and that the College created by this our Charter shall pay and discharge all the debts and liabilities of the College created by our said Letters Patent of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign; and that all persons who have studied in the last-mentioned College, or obtained any standing or other privilege therein, shall be entitled to all advantages to which they would have been entitled if their studies had been pursued, or privileges acquired in the College created by this our Charter.

And We further will and ordain that all by-laws and regulations made by the Council of the said College created by our Letters Patent of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, and in force at or immediately before

the granting of this our Charter, shall, until they shall be altered or repealed, remain in force as by-laws and regulations of the College created by this our Charter, and which last-mentioned College is hereinafter referred to as the College.

And WE do hereby will, declare, and direct, that the future Presidents of the College shall be such persons as WE, our heirs or successors, shall select and appoint, by writing under our or their Sign Manual. And that if We should hereafter deem it expedient to appoint future Vice-Presidents, that they also shall be appointed by writing under the Sign Manual of Us, our heirs or successors, from among the Professors for the time being. And the future Professors of the College, unless it shall be otherwise provided by Parliament, shall likewise be appointed by writing under the Sign Manual of Us, our heirs and successors.

And We do hereby further will, declare, and direct that the persons who hereby are, and such persons as shall hereafter be, appointed to the said respective offices of President, Vice-President, and Professors of said College, shall hold and be continued in their offices respectively during the pleasure of Us, our heirs and successors.

And We do hereby further will, direct, and appoint that the persons who hereby are, and all person or persons who shall from time to time be nominated and appointed to be President, Vice-President, or Professors of the College, shall, before he, they, or any of them shall be admitted to the exercise or execution of any of the said offices, respectively make and subscribe before one of our Justices of the Peace for the County of Galway, or before the Chairman of the County of Galway, a solemn declaration for the true and faithful execution of such office, and for the faithful discharge of the duties thereof.

And we do hereby further will, declare, and direct, that all visitorial power and authority of the said College shall be exercised by such person or persons as We hereby appoint, or as WE, our heirs or successors, shall from time to time appoint by warrant or warrants, under our or their Sign Manual, to execute the office of Visitor or Visitors.

And We do further will, ordain, and direct, that the following Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances, which have been made by us shall be the Statutes for the government and discipline of the College.

STATUTES

CHAPTER I.

OF THE BODY POLITIC AND CORPORATE.

THE body politic and corporate shall consist of the President and the Professors.

We will and ordain that Edward Berwick, B.A., heretofore President of the Queen's College, Galway, created by our Charter of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, be the first President of the College.

WE further will and ordain that the following persons heretofore Professors of the said College, created by our Charter of the thirtieth day of December, in the ninth year of our reign, be the first Professors of the College, that is to say

And We further will and ordain that Bernard O'Flaherty be Registrar, James Hardiman, Librarian, and P. G. Fitzgerald, Bursar; and that the said several persons above named, and such other person or persons as shall hereafter