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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Charter and supplemental charter of the
+Hudson's Bay Company, by Hudson's Bay Company
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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+Title: Charter and supplemental charter of the Hudson's Bay Company
+
+Author: Hudson's Bay Company
+
+Posting Date: August 16, 2012 [EBook #6580]
+Release Date: September, 2004
+First Posted: December 29, 2002
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+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARTER, SUPP. CHARTER OF H.B. CO. ***
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+Produced by Sean Barrett, Charles Franks
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+         CHARTER
+           AND
+   SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER
+          OF THE
+   HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
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+
+           THE
+      ROYAL CHARTER
+    FOR INCORPORATING
+THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
+        A.D. 1670.
+
+CHARLES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland,
+France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To ALL to whom these
+Presents shall come, greeting: WHEREAS Our dear and entirely beloved
+Cousin, Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria and
+Cumberland, &c. Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, William, Earl of Craven,
+Henry, Lord Arlington, Anthony, Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, and
+Sir Robert Vyner, Knights and Baronets, Sir Peter Colleton, Baronet,
+Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath, Sir Paul Neele, Knight,
+Sir John Griffith and Sir Philip Carteret, Knights, James Hayes, John
+Kirke, Francis Millington, William Prettyman, John Fenn, Esquires,
+and John Portman, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, have, at their
+own great Cost and Charges, undertaken an Expedition for Hudson's Bay
+in the North-west Part of America, for the Discovery of a new Passage
+into the South Sea, and for the finding some Trade for Furs, Minerals,
+and other considerable Commodities, and by such their Undertaking, have
+already made such Discoveries as do encourage them to proceed further
+in Pursuance of their said Design, by means whereof there may probably
+arise very great Advantage to Us and Our Kingdom. AND WHEREAS the said
+Undertakers, for their further Encouragement in the said Design, have
+humbly besought Us to incorporate them, and grant unto them, and their
+Successors, the sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, and Sounds, in whatsoever Latitude they
+shall be, that lie within the entrance of the Streights commonly
+called Hudson's Streights, together with all the Lands, Countries
+and Territories, upon the Coasts and Confines of the Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Sounds, aforesaid, which are not now
+actually possessed by any of our Subjects, or by the Subjects of any
+other Christian Prince or State. Now KNOW YE, that We being desirous to
+promote all Endeavours tending to the publick Good of our People, and
+to encourage the said Undertaking, HAVE of Our especial Grace, certain
+Knowledge, and mere Motion, given, granted, ratified, and confirmed,
+and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, DO give, grant,
+ratify and confirm, unto Our said Cousin Prince Rupert, Christopher, Duke
+of Albemarle, William, Earl of Craven, Henry, Lord Arlington, Anthony,
+Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Colleton,
+Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Paul Neele, Sir John Griffith, and Sir
+Philip Carteret, James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, William
+Prettyman, John Fenn, and John Portman, that they, and such others
+as shall be admitted into the said Society as is hereafter expressed,
+shall be one Body Corporate and Politique, in Deed and in Name, by the
+Name of The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading
+into Hudson's Bay, and them by the Name of the Governor and Company of
+Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, one Body Corporate and
+Politique, in Deed and in Name, really and fully for ever, for Us, Our
+Heirs and Successors, WE DO make ordain, constitute, establish, confirm,
+and declare, by these Presents, and that by the same Name of Governor
+and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, they
+shall have perpetual Succession, and that they and their Successors,
+by the name of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England,
+trading into Hudson's Bay, be, and at all Times hereafter shall be,
+personable and capable in Law to have, purchase, receive, possess,
+enjoy and retain, Lands, Rents, Privileges, Liberties, Jurisdictions,
+Franchises, and Hereditaments, of what Kind, Nature or Quality soever
+they be, to them and their Successors; and also to give, grant, demise,
+alien, assign and dispose Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and to
+do and execute all and singular other Things by the same Name that to
+them shall or may appertain to do. And that they, and their Successors,
+by the Name of The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England,
+trading into Hudson's Bay, may plead, and be impleaded, answer, and
+be answered, defend, and be defended, in whatsoever Courts and Places,
+before whatsoever Judges and Justices, and other Persons and Officers,
+in all and singular Actions, Pleas, Suits, Quarrels, Causes and Demands,
+whatsoever, of whatsoever Kind, Nature or Sort, in such Manner and
+Form as any other. Our Liege People of this Our Realm of England,
+being Persons able and capable in Law, may, or can have, purchase,
+receive, possess, enjoy, retain, give, grant, demise, alien, assign,
+dispose, plead, defend, and be defended, do, permit, and execute. And
+that the said Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading
+into Hudson's Bay, and their Successors, may have a Common Seal to
+serve for all the Causes and Businesses of them and their Successors,
+and that it shall and may be lawful to the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, the same Seal, from time to time, at their Will
+and Pleasure, to break, change, and to make anew, or alter, as to them
+shall seem expedient. AND FURTHER WE WILL, and by these Presents for
+Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO ordain, that there shall be from
+henceforth one of the same Company to be elected and appointed in such
+Form as hereafter in these Presents is expressed, which shall be called
+The Governor of the said Company. And that the said Governor and Company
+shall or may elect Seven of their Number in such Form as hereafter in
+these Presents is expressed, which shall be called The Committee of
+the said Company, which Committee of Seven, or any Three of them,
+together with the Governor or Deputy-Governor of the said Company for
+the time being, shall have the Direction of the Voyages of and for
+the said Company, and the Provision of the Shipping and Merchandizes
+thereunto belonging, and also the Sale of all Merchandizes, Goods, and
+other Things returned, in all or any the Voyages or Ships of or for
+the said Company, and the managing and handling of all other Business,
+Affairs and Things, belonging to the said Company. AND WE WILL, ordain,
+and grant by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the
+said Governor and Company, and their Successors, that they the said
+Governor and Company, and their Successors, shall from henceforth for
+ever be ruled, ordered and governed, according to such Manner and Form
+as is hereafter in these Presents expressed, and not otherwise: And
+that they shall have, hold, retain, and enjoy the Grants, Liberties,
+Privileges, Jurisdictions and Immunities, only hereafter in these
+Presents granted and expressed, and no other. And for the better
+Execution of Our Will and Grant in this Behalf, WE HAVE ASSIGNED,
+nominated, constituted, and made, and by these Presents for Us, our
+Heirs and Successors, WE DO ASSIGN, nominate, constitute and make,
+our said Cousin, PRINCE RUPERT, to be the first and present Governor
+of the said Company, and to continue in the said Office from the Date
+of these Presents until the 10th November then next following, if he,
+the said Prince Rupert, shall so long live, and so until a new Governor
+be chosen by the said Company in Form hereafter expressed. AND ALSO
+WE HAVE assigned, nominated and appointed, and by these Presents for
+Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO assign, nominate and constitute,
+the said Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Colleton,
+James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, and John Portman, to be
+the seven first and present Committees of the said Company, from the
+Date of these Presents until the said 10th Day of November then also
+next following, and so until new Committees shall be chosen in Form
+hereafter expressed. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company and
+their Successors, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
+Governor and Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them
+present at any publick Assembly commonly called, The Court General to
+be holden for the said Company, the Governor of the said Company being
+always one, from time to time to elect, nominate and appoint one of the
+said Company to be Deputy to the said Governor; which Deputy shall take
+a corporal Oath, before the Governor and three or more of the Committee
+of the said Company for the time being, well, truly, and faithfully to
+execute his said Office of Deputy to the Governor of the said Company,
+and after his Oath so taken, shall and may from time to time, in the
+Absence of the said Governor, exercise and execute the Office of
+Governor of the said Company, in such Sort as the said Governor ought
+to do. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents, for Us, Our
+Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company of Adventurers
+of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, and their Successors, that they,
+or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, to be one, from time to time, and at all Times hereafter,
+shall and may have Authority and Power, yearly and every Year, between
+the first and last Day of November, to assemble and meet together
+in some convenient Place, to be appointed from time to time by the
+Governor, or in his Absence by the Deputy of the said Governor for
+the Time being, and that they being so assembled, it shall and may be
+lawful to and for the said Governor or Deputy of the said Governor,
+and the said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them
+which then shall happen to be present, whereof the Governor of the
+said Company, or his Deputy for the Time being to be one, to elect
+and nominate one of the said Company, which shall be Governor of the
+said Company for one whole Year, then next following, which Person
+being so elected and nominated to be Governor of the said Company,
+as is aforesaid, before he be admitted to the Execution of the said
+Office, shall take a corporal Oath before the last Governor, being his
+Predecessor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the Committee of
+the said Company for the Time being, that he shall from time to time,
+well and truly execute the Office of Governor of the said Company, in all
+Things concerning the same; and that immediately after the same Oath so
+taken, he shall and may execute and use the said Office of Governor of
+the said Company, for one whole Year from thence next following. And in
+like Sort We will and grant, That as well every one of the above named
+to be of the said Company or Fellowship, as all others hereafter to be
+admitted, or free of the said Company, shall take a corporal Oath before
+the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time being,
+to such Effect as by the said Governor and Company, or the greater
+part of them, in any publick Court to be held for the said Company,
+shall be in reasonable and legal Manner set down and devised, before
+they shall be allowed or admitted to trade or traffick as a Freeman
+of the said Company. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, That the said Governor, or Deputy Governor, and
+the rest of the said Company, and their Successors for the Time being,
+or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor,
+from time to time, to be one, shall and may from time to time, and at
+all Times hereafter, have Power and Authority yearly, and every Year,
+between the first and last day of November, to assemble and meet together
+in some convenient Place, from time to time to be appointed by the
+said Governor of the said Company, or in his Absence by his Deputy; and
+that they being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful to and for
+the said Governor or his Deputy, and the Company for the Time being,
+or the greater Part of them, which then shall happen to be present,
+whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time
+being to be one, to elect and nominate Seven of the said Company,
+which shall be a Committee of the said Company, for one whole Year
+from then next ensuing, which Persons being so elected and nominated
+to be a Committee of the said Company as aforesaid, before they be
+admitted to the Execution of their Office, shall take a corporal Oath,
+before the Governor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the said
+Committee of the said Company, being their last Predecessors, that
+they, and every of them, shall well and faithfully perform their
+said Office of Committees in all Things concerning the same, and that
+immediately after the said Oath so taken, they shall and may execute
+and use their said Office of Committees of the said Company, for one
+whole Year from thence next following. AND MOREOVER, Our "Will and
+Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+WE DO GRANT unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,
+that when, and as often as it shall happen, the Governor or Deputy
+Governor of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time within one
+Year after that he shall be nominated, elected, and sworn to the Office
+of the Governor of the said Company, as is aforesaid, to die or to be
+removed from the said Office, which Governor or Deputy Governor not
+demeaning himself well in his said Office, WE WILL to be removeable
+at the Pleasure of the rest of the said Company, or the greater Part
+of them which shall be present at their publick Assemblies, commonly
+called, Their General Courts holden for the said Company, that then,
+and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for the Residue of the
+said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, within a
+convenient Time, after the Death or Removing of any such Governor, or
+Deputy Governor to assemble themselves in such convenient Place as they
+shall think fit, for the Election of the Governor or Deputy Governor
+of the said Company; and that the said Company, or the greater Part
+of them, being then and there present, shall and may, then and there,
+before their Departure from the said Place, elect and nominate one
+other of the said Company, to be Governor or Deputy Governor for the
+said Company, in the Place and Stead of him that so died or was removed;
+which Person being so elected and nominated to the Office of Governor
+or Deputy Governor of the said Company, shall have and exercise the
+said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking
+first a corporal Oath, as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof;
+and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall so
+require. AND ALSO, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant unto the said Governor
+and Company, that when, and as often as it shall happen any Person
+or Persons of the Committee of the said Company for the Time being,
+at any Time within one Year next after that they or any of them shall
+be nominated, elected and sworn to the Office of Committee of the said
+Company as is aforesaid, to die or to be removed from the said Office,
+which Committees not demeaning themselves well in their said Office, We
+will, to be removeable at the Pleasure of the said Governor and Company,
+or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor of the said Company
+for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one; that then, and so often,
+it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, and the rest of
+the Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, whereof the
+Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one, within convenient
+Time after the Death or removing of any of the said Committee, to
+assemble themselves in such convenient Place as is or shall be usual
+and accustomed for the Election of the Governor of the said Company,
+or where else the Governor of the said Company for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, shall appoint. And that the said Governor and Company,
+or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, to be one, being then and there present, shall, and may,
+then and there, before their Departure from the said Place, elect and
+nominate one or more of the said Company, to be of the Committee of the
+said Company in the Place and Stead of him or them that so died, or were
+or was so removed, which Person or Persons so nominated and elected to
+the Office of Committee of the said Company, shall have and exercise
+the said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking
+first a corporal Oath as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof,
+and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall
+require. And to the End the said Governor and Company of Adventurers of
+England trading into Hudson's Bay, may be encouraged to undertake,
+and effectually to prosecute the said design, of Our more especial
+Grace, certain Knowledge, the mere Motion, WE HAVE given, granted and
+confirmed, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, DO
+give, grant, and confirm, unto the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, the sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, and Sounds, in whatsoever Latitude they
+shall be, that lie within the Entrance of the Streights commonly called
+Hudson's Streights, together with all the Lands and Territories upon
+the Countries, Coasts and Confines of the Seas, Bays, Lakes, Rivers,
+Creeks, and Sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed
+by or granted to any of our Subjects or possessed by the Subjects of
+any other Christian Prince or State, with the Fishing of all Sorts of
+Fish, Whales, Sturgeons, and all other Royal Fishes, in the Seas, Bays,
+Inlets, and Rivers within the Premisses, and the Fish therein taken,
+together with the Royalty of the Sea upon the Coasts within the Limits
+aforesaid, and all Mines Royal, as well discovered as not discovered,
+of Gold, Silver, Gems, and precious Stones, to be found or discovered
+within the Territories, Limits, and Places aforesaid, and that the said
+Land be from henceforth reckoned and reputed as one of our Plantations
+or Colonies in America, called _Ruperts Land_. AND FURTHER, WE DO
+by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, make, create and
+constitute, the said Governor and Company for the Time being, and their
+Successors, the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors, of the same
+Territory, Limits and Places aforesaid, and of all other the Premisses,
+SAVING ALWAYS, the Faith, Allegiance and Sovereign Dominion due to Us,
+our Heirs and Successors, for the same TO HAVE, HOLD, possess and enjoy
+the said Territory, Limits, and Places, and all and singular other
+the Premisses, hereby granted as aforesaid, with their, and every of
+their Rights, Members, Jurisdictions, Prerogatives, Royalties, and
+Appurtenances whatsoever, to them the said Governor and Company, and
+their Successors for ever, TO BE HOLDEN of Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+as of Our Manor of East Greenwich in our County of Kent, in free and
+common Soccage, and not in Capite or by Knight's Service; YEILDING AND
+PAYING yearly to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for the same, two Elks
+and two black Beavers, whensoever, and as often as We, Our Heirs and
+Successors, shall happen to enter into the said Countries, Territories
+and Regions hereby granted. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, _and to their Successors, that it
+shall and may be_ lawful, to and for the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, from time to time, to assemble themselves, for or
+about any the Matters, Causes, Affairs, or Businesses of the said Trade,
+in any Place or Places for the same convenient, within our Dominions or
+elsewhere, and there to hold Court for the said Company, and the Affairs
+thereof; and that also, it shall and may be lawful to and for them, and
+the greater Part of them, being so assembled, and that shall then and
+there be present, in any such Place or Places whereof the Governor or
+his Deputy for the Time being to be one, to make, ordain, and constitute,
+such, and so many reasonable Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances,
+as to them, or the greater part of them being then and there present,
+shall seem necessary and convenient for the good Government of the
+said Company, and of all Governors of Colonies, Forts and Plantations,
+Factors, Masters, Mariners, and other Officers employed or to be
+employed, in any of the Territories and Lands aforesaid, and in any
+of their Voyages; and for the better Advancement and Continuance of the
+said Trade, or Traffic and Plantations, and the same Laws, Constitutions,
+Orders and Ordinances so made, to put in Use and execute accordingly,
+and at their Pleasure to revoke and alter the same, or any of them, as
+the occasion shall require: And that the said Governor and Company,
+so often as they shall make, ordain, or establish, any such Laws,
+Constitutions, Orders, and Ordinances, in such Form as aforesaid,
+shall and may lawfully impose, ordain, limit and provide, such Pains,
+Penalties and Punishments upon all Offenders, contrary to such Laws,
+Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, or any of them, as to the said
+Governor and Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them,
+then and there being present, the said Governor or his Deputy being
+always one, shall seem necessary, requisite, or convenient for the
+Observation of the same Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances;
+and the same Fines and Amerciaments shall and may by their Officers
+and Servants, from time to time to be appointed for that Purpose levy,
+take and have, to the Use of the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, without the Impediment of Us, Our Heirs or Successors,
+or of any the Officers or Ministers of Us, Our Heirs or Successors,
+and without any Account therefore to Us, Our Heirs or Successors, to be
+made. All and singular which Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances,
+so as aforesaid, to be made, WE WILL to be duly observed and kept under
+the Pains and Penalties therein to be contained; so always as the said
+Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, Pines and Amerciaments,
+be reasonable, and not contrary or repugnant, but as near as may be
+agreeable to the Laws, Statutes or Customs of this our Realm. AND
+FURTHERMORE, of our ample and abundant Grace, certain Knowledge, and
+mere Motion, WE HAVE granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs
+and Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and
+their Successors, that they, and their Successors, and their Factors,
+Servants and Agents, for them, and on their Behalf and not otherwise,
+shall for ever hereafter have, use and enjoy, not only the whole, entire,
+and only Trade and Traffick, and the whole, entire, and only Liberty,
+Use and Privilege, of Trading and Trafficking to and from the Territory,
+Limits and Places aforesaid; but also the whole and entire Trade and
+Traffick to and from all Havens, Bays, Creeks, Rivers, Lakes and Seas,
+into which they shall find Entrance or Passage by Water or Land out
+of the Territories, Limits or Places, aforesaid; and to and with all
+the Natives and People, inhabiting, or which shall inhabit within the
+Territories, Limits and Places aforesaid; and to and with all other
+Nations inhabiting any the Coasts adjacent to the said Territories,
+Limits and Places which are not already possessed as aforesaid, or
+whereof the sole Liberty or Privilege of Trade and Traffick is not
+granted to any other of Our Subjects. AND WE of our further Royal Favour,
+and of Our more especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion,
+HAVE granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+DO grant to the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors,
+that neither the said Territories, Limits and Places, hereby granted
+as aforesaid, nor any Part thereof, nor the Islands, Havens, Ports,
+Cities, Towns or Places, thereof, or therein contained, shall be
+visited, frequented or haunted, by any of the Subjects of Us, Our
+Heirs or Successors, contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents,
+and by Virtue of Our Prerogative Royal, which We will not have in that
+Behalf argued or brought into Question; WE STREIGHTLY charge, command
+and prohibit, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all the Subjects of Us,
+Our Heirs and Successors, of what Degree or Quality soever they be,
+that none of them directly or indirectly, do visit, haunt, frequent
+or trade, traffic or adventure, by way of Merchandize, into, or from
+any the said Territories, Limits or Places, hereby granted, or any,
+or either of them, other than the said Governor and Company, and such
+particular Persons as now be, or hereafter shall be, of that Company,
+their Agents, Factors, and Assigns, unless it be by the Licence and
+Agreement of the said Governor and Company in Writing first had and
+obtained, under their Common Seal, to be granted, upon Pain that every
+such Person or Persons that shall trade or traffick into or from any
+of the Countries, Territories or Limits aforesaid, other than the said
+Governor and Company, and their Successors, shall incur our Indignation,
+and the Forfeiture, and the Loss of the Goods, Merchandizes, and other
+Things whatsoever, which so shall be brought into this Realm of England,
+or any the Dominions of the same, contrary to our said Prohibition,
+or the Purport or true Meaning of these Presents, for which the said
+Governor and Company shall find, take and seize, in other Places out
+of our Dominions, where the said Company, their Agents, Factors or
+Ministers, shall trade, traffick or inhabit, by Virtue of these Our
+Letters Patent, as also the Ship and Ships, with the Furniture thereof,
+wherein such Goods, Merchandizes, and other Things, shall be brought and
+found, the one Half of all the said Forfeitures to be to Us, Our Heirs
+and Successors, and the other Half thereof WE DO by these Presents
+clearly and wholly for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, give and grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors. AND FURTHER,
+all and every the said Offenders, for their said Contempt, to suffer
+such other Punishment as to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for so high
+a Contempt, shall seem meet and convenient, and not to be in anywise
+delivered until they, and every of them, shall become bound unto the
+said Governor for the time being in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds
+at the least, at no time then after to trade or traffick into any of
+the said Places, Seas, Streights, Bays, Ports, Havens or Territories,
+aforesaid, contrary to our express Commandment in that Behalf set
+down and published. AND FURTHER, of Our more especial Grace, WE HAVE
+condescended and granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and
+Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, that We, Our Heirs and Successors, will not grant Liberty,
+Licence, or Power, to any Person or Persons whatsoever, contrary to
+the Tenor of these Our Letters Patent, to trade, traffick or inhabit,
+unto or upon any the Territories, Limits or Places, afore specified,
+contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents, without the Consent
+of the said Governor and Company, or the most part of them. AND, OF Our
+more abundant Grace and Favour to the said Governor and Company, WE DO
+hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That if it shall so happen,
+that any of the Persons free, or to be free of the said Company of
+Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, who shall, before the
+going forth of any Ship or Ships appointed for a VOYAGE, or otherwise,
+promise or agree by Writing under his or their Hands, to adventure
+any Sum or Sums of Money, towards the furnishing any Provision, or
+Maintenance of any Voyage or Voyages, set forth, or to be set forth, or
+intended or meant to be set forth, by the said Governor and Company, or
+the more Part of them present at any publick Assembly, commonly called
+Their General Court, shall not within the Space of twenty Days next
+after Warning given to him or them, by the said Governor or Company, or
+their known Officer or Minister, bring in and deliver to the Treasurer or
+Treasurers appointed for the Company, such Sums of Money as shall have
+been expressed and set down in Writing, by the said Person or Persons,
+subscribed with the Name of said Adventurer or Adventurers, that then,
+and at all Times after, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
+Governor and Company, or the more Part of them present, whereof the
+said Governor or his Deputy to be one, at any of their General Courts
+or General Assemblies, to remove and disfranchise him or them, and
+every such Person and Persons at their Wills and Pleasures, and he or
+they so removed and disfranchised, not to be permitted to trade into
+the Countries, Territories, and Limits aforesaid, or any Part thereof,
+nor to have any Adventure or Stock going or remaining with or amongst
+the said Company, without the special Licence of the said Governor and
+Company, or the more Part of them present at any General Court, first had
+and obtained in that Behalf, any Thing before in these Presents to the
+contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. AND OUR WILL AND PLEASURE
+is, and hereby we do also ordain, That it shall and may be lawful,
+to and for the said Governor and Company, or the greater Part of them,
+whereof the Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy to be one, to
+admit into, and to be of the said Company, all such Servants or Factors,
+of or for the said Company, and all such others, as to them, or the
+most Part of them present, at any Court held for the said Company,
+the Governor or his Deputy being one, shall be thought fit and agreeable
+with the Orders and Ordinances made and to be made for the Government
+of the said Company. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these
+Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant unto the said
+Governor and Company, and to their Successors, that it shall and may be
+lawful in all Elections, and Bye-laws to be made by the General Court
+of the Adventurers of the said Company, that every Person shall have
+a number of Votes according to his Stock, that is to say, for every
+hundred Pounds by him subscribed or brought into the present Stock, one
+Vote, and that any of those that have subscribed less than one hundred
+Pounds, may join their respective Sums to make up one hundred Pounds,
+and have one Vote jointly for the same, and not otherwise. AND FURTHER,
+Of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, WE DO for Us,
+Our Heirs and Successors, grant to and with the said Governor and Company
+of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, that all Lands,
+Islands, Territories, Plantations, Forts, Fortifications, Factories, or
+Colonies, where the said Company's Factories and Trade are or shall be,
+within any the Ports or Places afore limited, shall be immediately and
+from henceforth, under the Power and Command of the said Governor and
+Company, their Successors and Assigns; saving the Faith and Allegiance
+due to be performed to Us, Our Heirs and Successors aforesaid; and
+that the said Governor and Company shall have Liberty, full Power and
+Authority, to appoint and establish Governors, and all other Officers
+to govern them, and that the Governor and his Council of the several and
+respective Places where the said Company shall have Plantations, Forts,
+Factories, Colonies, or Places of Trade within any the Countries, Lands
+or Territories hereby granted, may have Power to judge all Persons
+belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under
+them, in all Causes, whether Civil or Criminal, according to the Laws
+of this Kingdom, and to execute Justice accordingly. And, in Case any
+Crime or Misdemeanor shall be committed in any of the said Company's
+Plantations, Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade within the Limits
+aforesaid, where Judicature cannot be executed for want of a Governor
+and Council there, then in such Case it shall and may be lawful for
+the chief Factor of that Place and his Council, to transmit the
+Party, together with the Offence, to such other Plantation, Factory,
+or Fort, where there shall be a Governor and Council, where Justice may
+be executed, or into this Kingdom of England, as shall be thought
+most convenient, there to receive such Punishment as the Nature of
+his Offence shall deserve. AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GIVE
+and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,
+free Liberty and Licence, in case they conceive it necessary, to send
+either Ships of War, Men or Ammunition, unto any their Plantations,
+Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade aforesaid, for the Security and
+Defence of the same, and to choose Commanders and Officers over them,
+and to give them Power and Authority, by Commission under their Common
+Seal or otherwise, to continue or make Peace or War with any Prince
+or People whatsoever, that are not Christians, in any Places where
+the said Company shall have any Plantations, Forts or Factories, or
+adjacent thereunto, as shall be most for the Advantage and Benefit of
+the said Governor and Company, and of their Trade; and also to right
+and recompense themselves upon the Goods, Estates or People of those
+Parts, by whom the said Governor and Company shall sustain any Injury,
+Loss, or Damage, or upon any other People whatsoever that shall any
+Way, contrary to the Intent of these Presents, interrupt, wrong or
+injure them in their said Trade, within the said Places, Territories,
+and Limits, granted by this Charter. And that it shall and may be lawful
+to and for the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, from
+time to time, and at all Times from henceforth, to erect and build such
+Castles, Fortifications, Forts, Garrisons, Colonies or Plantations,
+Towns or Villages, in any Parts or Places within the Limits and Bounds
+granted before in these Presents, unto the said Governor and Company,
+as they in their Discretion shall think fit and requisite, and for
+the Supply of such as shall be needful and convenient, to keep and be
+in the same, to send out of this Kingdom, to the said Castles, Forts,
+Fortifications, Garrisons, Colonies, Plantations, Towns or Villages, all
+Kinds of Cloathing, Provision of Victuals, Ammunition, and Implements,
+necessary for such Purpose, paying the Duties and Customs for the same,
+as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing
+thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to
+govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and
+Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors,
+or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these
+Presents are formerly expressed. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors, full Power
+and lawful Authority to seize upon the Persons of all such English,
+or any other Our Subjects, which shall sail into Hudson's Bay, or
+inhabit in any of the Countries, Islands or Territories hereby granted
+to the said Governor and Company, without their Leave and License in
+that Behalf first had and obtained, or that shall contemn or disobey
+their Orders, and send them to England; and that all and every Person
+or Persons, being Our Subjects, any ways employed by the said Governor
+and Company, within any of the Parts, Places, and Limits aforesaid,
+shall be liable unto and suffer such Punishment for any Offences by
+them committed in the Parts aforesaid, as the President and Council
+for the said Governor and Company there shall think fit, and the Merit
+of the Offence shall require, as aforesaid; and in case any Person
+or Persons being convicted and sentenced by the President and Council
+of the said Governor and Company, in the Countries, Lands, or Limits
+aforesaid, their Factors or Agents there, for any Offence by them done,
+shall appeal from the same; that then and in such Case, it shall and
+may be lawful to and for the said President and Council, Factors,
+or Agents, to seize upon him or them, and to carry him or them home
+Prisoners into England, to the said Governor and Company, there to
+receive such condign Punishment as his Cause shall require, and
+the Law of this Nation allow of: and for the better Discovery of
+Abuses and Injuries to be done unto the said Governor and Company,
+or their Successors, by any Servant by them to be employed in the
+said Voyages and Plantations, it shall and may be lawful to and for
+the said Governor and Company, and their respective President, Chief
+Agent or Governor in the Parts aforesaid, to examine upon Oath all
+Factors, Masters, Pursers, Supercargoes, Commanders of Castles, Forts,
+Fortifications, Plantations or Colonies, or other Persons, touching or
+concerning any Matter or Thing, in which by Law or Usage an Oath may
+be administered, so as the said Oath, and the Matter therein contained,
+be not repugnant, but agreeable to the laws of this Realm. AND, WE DO
+hereby streightly charge and command all and singular, our Admirals,
+Vice-Admirals, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, and
+all and singular other our Officers, Ministers, Liege Men and Subjects
+whatsoever, to be aiding, favouring, helping and assisting, to the said
+Governor and Company, and to their Successors, and to their Deputies,
+Officers, Factors, Servants, Assigns and Ministers, and every of them,
+in executing and enjoying the Premisses, as well on Land as on Sea,
+from time to time, when any of you shall thereunto be required; ANY
+STATUTE, Act, Ordinance, Proviso, Proclamation, or Restraint heretofore
+had, made, set forth, ordained, or provided, or any other Matter,
+Cause or Thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding,
+IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent;
+WITNESS OURSELF at Westminster, the Second Day of May, in the Two and
+Twentieth Year of Our Reign.
+
+By Writ of Privy Seal,
+PIGOTT.
+
+
+
+
+SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER,
+9th September, 1884.
+
+
+Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
+and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, to all to
+whom these presents shall come, greeting.
+
+_Whereas by a Royal charter granted on the 2nd day of May in the
+two-and-twentieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles
+the Second (in this our charter called "the original charter"), a
+company was incorporated by the name of "The Governor and Company of
+Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" with a common seal,
+for the purpose of trading within the territories mentioned in said
+original charter:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter, after declaring that one of
+the Company should be elected in manner thereafter mentioned, to be
+called the Governor of the Company, and that the said Governor and
+Company should or might elect seven of their members in such form as
+thereafter mentioned, to be called the Committee of the Company, which
+Committee of seven or any three of them, together with the Governor
+or the Deputy-Governor for the time being, should have the general
+management of the affairs of the Company, it was declared that the
+Governor and Company and their successors should from thenceforth for
+ever be ruled, ordered, and governed according to such manner and form
+as was thereafter expressed, and not otherwise:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter, after appointing Prince
+Rupert to be the first Governor of the Company, and seven persons to
+be the seven first Committees of the Company, it was provided that
+it should and might be lawful to or for the said Governor and Company
+for the time being or the greater part of them at any public assembly,
+commonly called the Court General, to be holden for the said Company,
+the Governor of the said Company being always one from time to time,
+to elect, nominate, and appoint one of the said Company to be Deputy to
+the said Governor, which Deputy should take a corporal oath before the
+Governor and three or more of the Committee of the said Company for the
+time being, well and truly and faithfully to execute his said office
+of Deputy to the Governor of the said Company, and after his oath so
+taken should and might from time to time, in the absence of the said
+Governor, exercise and execute the office of Governor of the said
+Company in such sort as the said Governor ought to do:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election
+in each and every year between the first and last day of November of one
+of the Company to be Governor for one whole year then next following,
+and required the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being to be
+present at each such election, and required the person so elected to
+be Governor of the Company, before being admitted to execute his office,
+to take a corporal oath before the last Governor being his predecessor,
+or his Deputy, and any three or more of the Committee of the said
+Company for the time being, that he would well and truly execute the
+office of Governor:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election
+in each and every year between the first and last day of November of
+seven of the Company to be a Committee of the Company for one whole year
+then next ensuing, and required the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of
+the Company for the time being to be present at each, such election,
+and required the persons so elected to be a Committee of the Company,
+before being admitted to execute their office to take a corporal oath
+that they and every of them should well and faithfully perform their
+office of Committee.
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the
+election of a Governor or a Deputy-Governor of the Company in the
+event of the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being, at any
+time within one year after being elected and sworn to the office of
+Governor or Deputy-Governor, dying or being removed from his office
+(which Governor or Deputy-Governor not demeaning himself well in his
+office was to be removeable at the pleasure of the rest of the Company
+or the greater part of them present at a general court), and provided
+that the Governor or Deputy-Governor so elected should hold office for
+the residue of the said year, and before being admitted to execute his
+office should take a corporal oath as aforesaid:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided in the event
+of any person or persons of the Committee of the Company for the time
+being within one year after being elected and sworn to such office
+dying or being removed from his or their office (which Committee not
+demeaning themselves well in their said office were to be removeable at
+the pleasure of the Governor and Company or the greater part of them,
+whereof the Governor for the time being, or his deputy should be one),
+for the election of one or more of the Company to be of the Committee
+in the place of him or them dying or being removed as aforesaid,
+and the said original charter provided that the person or persons
+so elected should hold office for the residue of the said year, and
+before being admitted to execute the office of Committee should take
+a corporal oath as aforesaid, and the Governor or the Deputy-Governor
+for the time being was required to be present at each such election.
+
+And whereas by the said original charter the Governor and Company were
+empowered to assemble themselves and hold court for the Company and
+the affairs thereof, and it was thereby declared that it should be
+lawful for them and the greater part of them present at such assembly,
+whereof the Governor or his Deputy for the time being should be one,
+to make, ordain, and constitute such and so many laws, constitutions,
+orders, and ordinances as to them or the greater part of them being there
+present should seem necessary and convenient for the good government
+of the Company, and at their pleasure to revoke and alter the same or
+any of them as the occasion should require:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter the Governor or Deputy-Governor
+for the time being was required to be present at the admission into
+the Company of servants, factors, and other persons:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter it was declared that it should
+be lawful in all elections and bye-laws to be made by the general court
+of the Adventurers of the said Company, that every person should have
+a number of votes according to his stock, that was to say, for every
+hundred pounds by him subscribed or brought into the present stock one
+vote, and that any of those who had subscribed less than one hundred
+pounds might join their respective sums to make up one hundred pounds
+and have one vote jointly for the same, and not otherwise:
+
+And whereas by a deed under the seal of the Company, dated the nineteenth
+November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, certain rights of
+government and other rights and privileges granted, by the said original
+charter, but not affecting the subject matter of this our charter,
+were duly surrendered to Her Majesty, and such surrender was duly
+accepted by Her Majesty by an instrument under her sign manual:
+
+And whereas for many years the capital of the Company has comprised no
+stock, but has been and is now divided into shares of equal value, and
+it is desirable that the qualification for votes should be changed from
+the holding of stock in the Company to the holding of shares therein:
+
+And whereas many of the provisions contained in the original charter have
+been found very inconvenient in practice, and are not in accordance with
+the usual provisions regulating the affairs of modern companies, and in
+particular the following provisions have been found very inconvenient,
+that is to say: the provisions requiring the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committee to be elected every year, and fixing the date of the
+election between the first and last day of November; the provisions
+requiring the presence of the Governor or Deputy-Governor at the general
+courts for the elections of Governors or Members of the Committee, and at
+the general courts assembled for the purpose of making bye-laws, and on
+other occasions specified in the said original charter; the provisions
+requiring a corporal oath to be taken by the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committee, and by certain other persons on certain occasions.
+
+And whereas, in addition to the above provisions complained of, the
+absence of any power in the said original charter enabling the Governor,
+Deputy-Governor, or any member of the Committee, to resign office, or
+enabling votes to be taken by proxy, and the absence of several other
+powers usually given to trading companies for the better regulation
+of their internal affairs, has been found in practice to be very
+inconvenient and detrimental to the interests of the Company.
+
+And whereas the Company is desirous that the provisions in the original
+charter above complained of should be cancelled or modified, and
+has applied to us for a supplemental charter embodying more suitable
+provisions._
+
+Now know ye that We by these presents do will and ordain that the
+several provisions contained in the said original charter relating to
+the election to the office of Governor, Deputy-Governor, or Committee,
+and to the filling up of any vacancy in any such office, and requiring
+corporal oaths to be taken, and the other provisions contained in the
+said original charter, shall, so far as they are inconsistent with the
+provisions contained in this our charter, on and after the day of the
+date of this our charter, cease to be in force and be annulled.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the presence of the Governor or
+Deputy-Governor at any general court or at any meeting of the Governor,
+Deputy-Governor, and Committee (who are hereinafter collectively referred
+to as the Board) shall not be essential for the proper holding of such
+court or Board meeting, and that nothing done at any general court or
+meeting of the Board shall be questioned or disputed on the ground
+of the absence of the Governor or Deputy-Governor from such general
+court or meeting of the Board, and that in case neither the Governor
+nor Deputy-Governor happen to be present at any such general court or
+meeting of the Board, at the appointed time for holding such general
+court or meeting of the Board, the members of the Committee present or
+the major part of them shall nominate and appoint one of themselves
+Chairman or President of such court or Board, and that the general
+powers of management and other powers given by the said original charter
+to any three members of the Committee, together with the Governor or
+Deputy-Governor, shall be exerciseable by any four members of the Board,
+whether the Governor or Deputy-Governor shall form one of such four or
+not.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, a general court for the Company shall
+be held every year at such place and on such day in November or December
+as may be appointed by the Board.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that every question submitted
+to a general court shall be decided by a show of hands, unless before
+or upon the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll is
+demanded by at least five members present at such general court, and
+holding in the aggregate not less than One hundred shares, and unless
+a poll is so demanded a declaration by the Chairman that the motion has
+been carried or lost, or carried or lost by a particular majority, shall
+be deemed conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or
+the proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the motion,
+and that if a poll is demanded as aforesaid, it shall be taken in such
+manner and at such time and place and either at once or after an interval
+or adjournment, as the Chairman of the general court directs, and the
+result of such poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the general
+court at which the poll was demanded. In case of an equality of votes,
+the Chairman shall, whether on a show of hands or at the poll, have a
+casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled
+as a member.
+
+In computing the majority when a poll is demanded, reference shall be
+had to the number of votes to which each member is entitled by this our
+charter.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, every member of the Company shall
+have one vote for every five shares in the Company held by him, and
+that any of those members who hold less than five shares may join their
+respective shares, so as to make up five or more shares, and have one
+vote jointly for the same; provided nevertheless that no member shall
+be entitled to vote, or to join with any other member or members in
+making up a joint vote at any general Court in respect of any shares
+or share, unless he shall have been the holder of such shares or share
+for at least six months prior to such general Court.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that votes may be given at
+every general court either personally or by proxy, but such proxy must
+be a proprietor in the Company, and himself entitled to vote, and the
+appointment of every such proxy must be in writing and must be in the
+form following or to the like effect, that is to say:
+
+  I (or we) appoint ___ my (our) proxy to vote and act for
+  me (us) and in my (our) name (names) on all questions at
+  the general court of the Hudson's Bay Company to be held
+  on the ___ day of ___ and every adjournment thereof whereat
+  I (we) shall not be present in person. Dated this ___ of ___.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that the Chairman may, with
+the consent of the meeting, adjourn any general court from time to time
+and place to place, but that no business shall be transacted at any
+adjourned general court other than the business left unfinished at the
+general court from which the adjournment took place.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committeemen shall, after the year One thousand eight hundred
+and eighty-four, hold their respective offices subject to retirement
+by rotation as hereinafter provided, that is to say, at the general
+court to be held in the year One thousand eight hundred and eighty-five,
+and at every succeeding general court, three members of the Board shall
+retire from office, and that, until all the present Board shall in turn
+have retired, the members of the Board to retire shall from time to time
+be determined by ballot or otherwise amongst the members of the present
+Board, or such of them as for the time being shall not have retired,
+but afterwards the members of the Board to retire shall be those who
+shall have been longest in office since their last election, and as
+between members of the Board of equal seniority the member or members to
+retire shall be determined by lot; provided always that the Governor and
+Deputy-Governor shall not both retire at the same time, and that in the
+ballot for determining who shall retire in the year One thousand eight
+hundred and eighty-five, the Governor and Deputy-Governor shall not both
+be included, but only one of them, such one to be determined by lot;
+and in the event of neither the Governor nor the Deputy-Governor being
+selected by ballot to retire in the year One thousand eight hundred and
+eighty-five, one of them to be determined by lot shall retire in the
+year One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. And provided always
+that a retiring member of the Board shall be eligible for re-election,
+and that, if the retiring member be the Governor or Deputy-Governor of
+the Company, he shall be eligible for re-election, or any other member of
+the Board shall be eligible for election as Governor or Deputy-Governor
+respectively; and in the event of any member of the Board being elected to
+the office of Governor or Deputy-Governor, in the place of the retiring
+Governor or Deputy-Governor such member shall be deemed to have retired
+from his former office.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the Company at any general court at
+which any members of the Board retire in manner aforesaid shall if it be
+the turn for the Governor or Deputy-Governor to retire first fill up that
+office, and then shall fill up the other vacated offices, including any
+office rendered vacant by the election of any member of the Board to the
+office of Governor or Deputy-Governor as aforesaid, by electing a like
+number of persons to be members of the Board; and that every election or
+re-election to the office of Governor, Deputy-Governor, or Committee shall
+be conducted in the manner and according to the forms from time to time
+to be prescribed by the bye-laws of the Company, and that such notice
+of the names of every candidate for election or re-election to any such
+office shall be given as may be required by the bye-laws for the time
+being in force.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, any member of the Board may at
+any time give notice to the Board in writing of his wish to resign,
+and on the acceptance of his resignation by the Board, but not before,
+his office shall be vacant.
+
+Nothing in this our charter contained shall affect the power given by the
+original charter to the Company to remove any Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+or member of the Committee who should not demean himself well in his
+respective office.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+in the original charter contained, any casual vacancy occurring among
+the members of the Board through death, resignation, removal, or other
+cause, except the expiration of the period of office, may be filled up by
+the Board or the remaining members of the Board, whatever there number
+may be, and if the casual vacancy occur in the office of Governor or
+Deputy-Governor, such vacancy may be filled by electing any one of the
+remaining members of the Board; and if so filled up a casual vacancy shall
+be deemed to have occurred in the office of the member of the Board so
+elected to the office of Governor or Deputy-Governor; provided always that
+any person so chosen to fill up any casual vacancy shall retain his office
+until the next general court held for the election of members of the
+Board, and at such general court the Company shall either confirm such
+person in his office or shall elect some other person to hold such office
+in his place, and provided always that the person so chosen and confirmed
+as aforesaid or the person elected by the Company in his stead (as the
+case may be) shall retain his office so long only as the vacating member
+of the Board would have retained the same if no vacancy had occurred,
+and provided always that, notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board,
+the continuing members of the Board may act so long as there remains
+not less than four members of the Board.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the corporal oath thereby required to
+be taken on the occasions and by the persons therein mentioned shall no
+longer be required to be taken by any person on any occasion whatsoever.
+
+In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made
+patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the ninth day of September,
+in the forty-eighth year of our reign.
+
+BY WARRANT UNDER THE QUEEN'S SIGN MANUAL.
+
+PALMER.
+[Seal.]
+
+LONDON: PRINTED BY SIR JOSEPH CAUSTON & SONS
+47, EASTCHEAP, E.C. AND 114, SOUTHWARK STREET, S.E.
+
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+         CHARTER
+           AND
+   SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER
+          OF THE
+   HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY
+
+
+
+
+           THE
+      ROYAL CHARTER
+    FOR INCORPORATING
+THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
+        A.D. 1670.
+
+CHARLES THE SECOND, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland,
+France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. To ALL to whom these
+Presents shall come, greeting: WHEREAS Our dear and entirely beloved
+Cousin, Prince Rupert, Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria and
+Cumberland, &c. Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, William, Earl of Craven,
+Henry, Lord Arlington, Anthony, Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, and
+Sir Robert Vyner, Knights and Baronets, Sir Peter Colleton, Baronet,
+Sir Edward Hungerford, Knight of the Bath, Sir Paul Neele, Knight,
+Sir John Griffith and Sir Philip Carteret, Knights, James Hayes, John
+Kirke, Francis Millington, William Prettyman, John Fenn, Esquires,
+and John Portman, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, have, at their
+own great Cost and Charges, undertaken an Expedition for Hudson's Bay
+in the North-west Part of America, for the Discovery of a new Passage
+into the South Sea, and for the finding some Trade for Furs, Minerals,
+and other considerable Commodities, and by such their Undertaking, have
+already made such Discoveries as do encourage them to proceed further
+in Pursuance of their said Design, by means whereof there may probably
+arise very great Advantage to Us and Our Kingdom. AND WHEREAS the said
+Undertakers, for their further Encouragement in the said Design, have
+humbly besought Us to incorporate them, and grant unto them, and their
+Successors, the sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, and Sounds, in whatsoever Latitude they
+shall be, that lie within the entrance of the Streights commonly
+called Hudson's Streights, together with all the Lands, Countries
+and Territories, upon the Coasts and Confines of the Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks and Sounds, aforesaid, which are not now
+actually possessed by any of our Subjects, or by the Subjects of any
+other Christian Prince or State. Now KNOW YE, that We being desirous to
+promote all Endeavours tending to the publick Good of our People, and
+to encourage the said Undertaking, HAVE of Our especial Grace, certain
+Knowledge, and mere Motion, given, granted, ratified, and confirmed,
+and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, DO give, grant,
+ratify and confirm, unto Our said Cousin Prince Rupert, Christopher, Duke
+of Albemarle, William, Earl of Craven, Henry, Lord Arlington, Anthony,
+Lord Ashley, Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Colleton,
+Sir Edward Hungerford, Sir Paul Neele, Sir John Griffith, and Sir
+Philip Carteret, James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, William
+Prettyman, John Fenn, and John Portman, that they, and such others
+as shall be admitted into the said Society as is hereafter expressed,
+shall be one Body Corporate and Politique, in Deed and in Name, by the
+Name of The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading
+into Hudson's Bay, and them by the Name of the Governor and Company of
+Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, one Body Corporate and
+Politique, in Deed and in Name, really and fully for ever, for Us, Our
+Heirs and Successors, WE DO make ordain, constitute, establish, confirm,
+and declare, by these Presents, and that by the same Name of Governor
+and Company of Adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, they
+shall have perpetual Succession, and that they and their Successors,
+by the name of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England,
+trading into Hudson's Bay, be, and at all Times hereafter shall be,
+personable and capable in Law to have, purchase, receive, possess,
+enjoy and retain, Lands, Rents, Privileges, Liberties, Jurisdictions,
+Franchises, and Hereditaments, of what Kind, Nature or Quality soever
+they be, to them and their Successors; and also to give, grant, demise,
+alien, assign and dispose Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, and to
+do and execute all and singular other Things by the same Name that to
+them shall or may appertain to do. And that they, and their Successors,
+by the Name of The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England,
+trading into Hudson's Bay, may plead, and be impleaded, answer, and
+be answered, defend, and be defended, in whatsoever Courts and Places,
+before whatsoever Judges and Justices, and other Persons and Officers,
+in all and singular Actions, Pleas, Suits, Quarrels, Causes and Demands,
+whatsoever, of whatsoever Kind, Nature or Sort, in such Manner and
+Form as any other. Our Liege People of this Our Realm of England,
+being Persons able and capable in Law, may, or can have, purchase,
+receive, possess, enjoy, retain, give, grant, demise, alien, assign,
+dispose, plead, defend, and be defended, do, permit, and execute. And
+that the said Governor and Company of Adventurers of England, trading
+into Hudson's Bay, and their Successors, may have a Common Seal to
+serve for all the Causes and Businesses of them and their Successors,
+and that it shall and may be lawful to the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, the same Seal, from time to time, at their Will
+and Pleasure, to break, change, and to make anew, or alter, as to them
+shall seem expedient. AND FURTHER WE WILL, and by these Presents for
+Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO ordain, that there shall be from
+henceforth one of the same Company to be elected and appointed in such
+Form as hereafter in these Presents is expressed, which shall be called
+The Governor of the said Company. And that the said Governor and Company
+shall or may elect Seven of their Number in such Form as hereafter in
+these Presents is expressed, which shall be called The Committee of
+the said Company, which Committee of Seven, or any Three of them,
+together with the Governor or Deputy-Governor of the said Company for
+the time being, shall have the Direction of the Voyages of and for
+the said Company, and the Provision of the Shipping and Merchandizes
+thereunto belonging, and also the Sale of all Merchandizes, Goods, and
+other Things returned, in all or any the Voyages or Ships of or for
+the said Company, and the managing and handling of all other Business,
+Affairs and Things, belonging to the said Company. AND WE WILL, ordain,
+and grant by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the
+said Governor and Company, and their Successors, that they the said
+Governor and Company, and their Successors, shall from henceforth for
+ever be ruled, ordered and governed, according to such Manner and Form
+as is hereafter in these Presents expressed, and not otherwise: And
+that they shall have, hold, retain, and enjoy the Grants, Liberties,
+Privileges, Jurisdictions and Immunities, only hereafter in these
+Presents granted and expressed, and no other. And for the better
+Execution of Our Will and Grant in this Behalf, WE HAVE ASSIGNED,
+nominated, constituted, and made, and by these Presents for Us, our
+Heirs and Successors, WE DO ASSIGN, nominate, constitute and make,
+our said Cousin, PRINCE RUPERT, to be the first and present Governor
+of the said Company, and to continue in the said Office from the Date
+of these Presents until the 10th November then next following, if he,
+the said Prince Rupert, shall so long live, and so until a new Governor
+be chosen by the said Company in Form hereafter expressed. AND ALSO
+WE HAVE assigned, nominated and appointed, and by these Presents for
+Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO assign, nominate and constitute,
+the said Sir John Robinson, Sir Robert Vyner, Sir Peter Colleton,
+James Hayes, John Kirke, Francis Millington, and John Portman, to be
+the seven first and present Committees of the said Company, from the
+Date of these Presents until the said 10th Day of November then also
+next following, and so until new Committees shall be chosen in Form
+hereafter expressed. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company and
+their Successors, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
+Governor and Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them
+present at any publick Assembly commonly called, The Court General to
+be holden for the said Company, the Governor of the said Company being
+always one, from time to time to elect, nominate and appoint one of the
+said Company to be Deputy to the said Governor; which Deputy shall take
+a corporal Oath, before the Governor and three or more of the Committee
+of the said Company for the time being, well, truly, and faithfully to
+execute his said Office of Deputy to the Governor of the said Company,
+and after his Oath so taken, shall and may from time to time, in the
+Absence of the said Governor, exercise and execute the Office of
+Governor of the said Company, in such Sort as the said Governor ought
+to do. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents, for Us, Our
+Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company of Adventurers
+of England, trading into Hudson's Bay, and their Successors, that they,
+or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, to be one, from time to time, and at all Times hereafter,
+shall and may have Authority and Power, yearly and every Year, between
+the first and last Day of November, to assemble and meet together
+in some convenient Place, to be appointed from time to time by the
+Governor, or in his Absence by the Deputy of the said Governor for
+the Time being, and that they being so assembled, it shall and may be
+lawful to and for the said Governor or Deputy of the said Governor,
+and the said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them
+which then shall happen to be present, whereof the Governor of the
+said Company, or his Deputy for the Time being to be one, to elect
+and nominate one of the said Company, which shall be Governor of the
+said Company for one whole Year, then next following, which Person
+being so elected and nominated to be Governor of the said Company,
+as is aforesaid, before he be admitted to the Execution of the said
+Office, shall take a corporal Oath before the last Governor, being his
+Predecessor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the Committee of
+the said Company for the Time being, that he shall from time to time,
+well and truly execute the Office of Governor of the said Company, in all
+Things concerning the same; and that immediately after the same Oath so
+taken, he shall and may execute and use the said Office of Governor of
+the said Company, for one whole Year from thence next following. And in
+like Sort We will and grant, That as well every one of the above named
+to be of the said Company or Fellowship, as all others hereafter to be
+admitted, or free of the said Company, shall take a corporal Oath before
+the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time being,
+to such Effect as by the said Governor and Company, or the greater
+part of them, in any publick Court to be held for the said Company,
+shall be in reasonable and legal Manner set down and devised, before
+they shall be allowed or admitted to trade or traffick as a Freeman
+of the said Company. AND FURTHER WE WILL and grant by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, unto the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, That the said Governor, or Deputy Governor, and
+the rest of the said Company, and their Successors for the Time being,
+or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor or Deputy Governor,
+from time to time, to be one, shall and may from time to time, and at
+all Times hereafter, have Power and Authority yearly, and every Year,
+between the first and last day of November, to assemble and meet together
+in some convenient Place, from time to time to be appointed by the
+said Governor of the said Company, or in his Absence by his Deputy; and
+that they being so assembled, it shall and may be lawful to and for
+the said Governor or his Deputy, and the Company for the Time being,
+or the greater Part of them, which then shall happen to be present,
+whereof the Governor of the said Company, or his Deputy for the Time
+being to be one, to elect and nominate Seven of the said Company,
+which shall be a Committee of the said Company, for one whole Year
+from then next ensuing, which Persons being so elected and nominated
+to be a Committee of the said Company as aforesaid, before they be
+admitted to the Execution of their Office, shall take a corporal Oath,
+before the Governor or his Deputy, and any three or more of the said
+Committee of the said Company, being their last Predecessors, that
+they, and every of them, shall well and faithfully perform their
+said Office of Committees in all Things concerning the same, and that
+immediately after the said Oath so taken, they shall and may execute
+and use their said Office of Committees of the said Company, for one
+whole Year from thence next following. AND MOREOVER, Our "Will and
+Pleasure is, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+WE DO GRANT unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,
+that when, and as often as it shall happen, the Governor or Deputy
+Governor of the said Company for the Time being, at any Time within one
+Year after that he shall be nominated, elected, and sworn to the Office
+of the Governor of the said Company, as is aforesaid, to die or to be
+removed from the said Office, which Governor or Deputy Governor not
+demeaning himself well in his said Office, WE WILL to be removeable
+at the Pleasure of the rest of the said Company, or the greater Part
+of them which shall be present at their publick Assemblies, commonly
+called, Their General Courts holden for the said Company, that then,
+and so often it shall and may be lawful to and for the Residue of the
+said Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, within a
+convenient Time, after the Death or Removing of any such Governor, or
+Deputy Governor to assemble themselves in such convenient Place as they
+shall think fit, for the Election of the Governor or Deputy Governor
+of the said Company; and that the said Company, or the greater Part
+of them, being then and there present, shall and may, then and there,
+before their Departure from the said Place, elect and nominate one
+other of the said Company, to be Governor or Deputy Governor for the
+said Company, in the Place and Stead of him that so died or was removed;
+which Person being so elected and nominated to the Office of Governor
+or Deputy Governor of the said Company, shall have and exercise the
+said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking
+first a corporal Oath, as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof;
+and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall so
+require. AND ALSO, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these Presents,
+for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant unto the said Governor
+and Company, that when, and as often as it shall happen any Person
+or Persons of the Committee of the said Company for the Time being,
+at any Time within one Year next after that they or any of them shall
+be nominated, elected and sworn to the Office of Committee of the said
+Company as is aforesaid, to die or to be removed from the said Office,
+which Committees not demeaning themselves well in their said Office, We
+will, to be removeable at the Pleasure of the said Governor and Company,
+or the greater Part of them, whereof the Governor of the said Company
+for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one; that then, and so often,
+it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, and the rest of
+the Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, whereof the
+Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy, to be one, within convenient
+Time after the Death or removing of any of the said Committee, to
+assemble themselves in such convenient Place as is or shall be usual
+and accustomed for the Election of the Governor of the said Company,
+or where else the Governor of the said Company for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, shall appoint. And that the said Governor and Company,
+or the greater part of them, whereof the Governor for the Time being,
+or his Deputy, to be one, being then and there present, shall, and may,
+then and there, before their Departure from the said Place, elect and
+nominate one or more of the said Company, to be of the Committee of the
+said Company in the Place and Stead of him or them that so died, or were
+or was so removed, which Person or Persons so nominated and elected to
+the Office of Committee of the said Company, shall have and exercise
+the said Office, for and during the Residue of the said Year, taking
+first a corporal Oath as is aforesaid, for the due Execution thereof,
+and this to be done from time to time, so often as the Case shall
+require. And to the End the said Governor and Company of Adventurers of
+England trading into Hudson's Bay, may be encouraged to undertake,
+and effectually to prosecute the said design, of Our more especial
+Grace, certain Knowledge, the mere Motion, WE HAVE given, granted and
+confirmed, and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, DO
+give, grant, and confirm, unto the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, the sole Trade and Commerce of all those Seas, Streights,
+Bays, Rivers, Lakes, Creeks, and Sounds, in whatsoever Latitude they
+shall be, that lie within the Entrance of the Streights commonly called
+Hudson's Streights, together with all the Lands and Territories upon
+the Countries, Coasts and Confines of the Seas, Bays, Lakes, Kivers,
+Creeks, and Sounds aforesaid, that are not already actually possessed
+by or granted to any of our Subjects or possessed by the Subjects of
+any other Christian Prince or State, with the Fishing of all Sorts of
+Fish, Whales, Sturgeons, and all other Royal Fishes, in the Seas, Bays,
+Inlets, and Rivers within the Premisses, and the Fish therein taken,
+together with the Royalty of the Sea upon the Coasts within the Limits
+aforesaid, and all Mines Royal, as well discovered as not discovered,
+of Gold, Silver, Gems, and precious Stones, to be found or discovered
+within the Territories, Limits, and Places aforesaid, and that the said
+Land be from henceforth reckoned and reputed as one of our Plantations
+or Colonies in America, called _Ruperts Land_. AND FURTHER, WE DO
+by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, make, create and
+constitute, the said Governor and Company for the Time being, and their
+Successors, the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors, of the same
+Territory, Limits and Places aforesaid, and of all other the Premisses,
+SAVING ALWAYS, the Faith, Allegiance and Sovereign Dominion due to Us,
+our Heirs and Successors, for the same TO HAVE, HOLD, possess and enjoy
+the said Territory, Limits, and Places, and all and singular other
+the Premisses, hereby granted as aforesaid, with their, and every of
+their Rights, Members, Jurisdictions, Prerogatives, Royalties, and
+Appurtenances whatsoever, to them the said Governor and Company, and
+their Successors for ever, TO BE HOLDEN of Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+as of Our Manor of East Greenwich in our County of Kent, in free and
+common Soccage, and not in Capite or by Knight's Service; YEILDING AND
+PAYING yearly to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for the same, two Elks
+and two black Beavers, whensoever, and as often as We, Our Heirs and
+Successors, shall happen to enter into the said Countries, Territories
+and Regions hereby granted. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, _and to their Successors, that it
+shall and may be_ lawful, to and for the said Governor and Company,
+and their Successors, from time to time, to assemble themselves, for or
+about any the Matters, Causes, Affairs, or Businesses of the said Trade,
+in any Place or Places for the same convenient, within our Dominions or
+elsewhere, and there to hold Court for the said Company, and the Affairs
+thereof; and that also, it shall and may be lawful to and for them, and
+the greater Part of them, being so assembled, and that shall then and
+there be present, in any such Place or Places whereof the Governor or
+his Deputy for the Time being to be one, to make, ordain, and constitute,
+such, and so many reasonable Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances,
+as to them, or the greater part of them being then and there present,
+shall seem necessary and convenient for the good Government of the
+said Company, and of all Governors of Colonies, Forts and Plantations,
+Factors, Masters, Mariners, and other Officers employed or to be
+employed, in any of the Territories and Lands aforesaid, and in any
+of their Voyages; and for the better Advancement and Continuance of the
+said Trade, or Traffic and Plantations, and the same Laws, Constitutions,
+Orders and Ordinances so made, to put in Use and execute accordingly,
+and at their Pleasure to revoke and alter the same, or any of them, as
+the occasion shall require: And that the said Governor and Company,
+so often as they shall make, ordain, or establish, any such Laws,
+Constitutions, Orders, and Ordinances, in such Form as aforesaid,
+shall and may lawfully impose, ordain, limit and provide, such Pains,
+Penalties and Punishments upon all Offenders, contrary to such Laws,
+Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, or any of them, as to the said
+Governor and Company for the Time being, or the greater Part of them,
+then and there being present, the said Governor or his Deputy being
+always one, shall seem necessary, requisite, or convenient for the
+Observation of the same Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances;
+and the same Fines and Amerciaments shall and may by their Officers
+and Servants, from time to time to be appointed for that Purpose levy,
+take and have, to the Use of the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, without the Impediment of Us, Our Heirs or Successors,
+or of any the Officers or Ministers of Us, Our Heirs or Successors,
+and without any Account therefore to Us, Our Heirs or Successors, to be
+made. All and singular which Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances,
+so as aforesaid, to be made, WE WILL to be duly observed and kept under
+the Pains and Penalties therein to be contained; so always as the said
+Laws, Constitutions, Orders and Ordinances, Pines and Amerciaments,
+be reasonable, and not contrary or repugnant, but as near as may be
+agreeable to the Laws, Statutes or Customs of this our Realm. AND
+FURTHERMORE, of our ample and abundant Grace, certain Knowledge, and
+mere Motion, WE HAVE granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs
+and Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and
+their Successors, that they, and their Successors, and their Factors,
+Servants and Agents, for them, and on their Behalf and not otherwise,
+shall for ever hereafter have, use and enjoy, not only the whole, entire,
+and only Trade and Traffick, and the whole, entire, and only Liberty,
+Use and Privilege, of Trading and Trafficking to and from the Territory,
+Limits and Places aforesaid; but also the whole and entire Trade and
+Traffick to and from all Havens, Bays, Creeks, Rivers, Lakes and Seas,
+into which they shall find Entrance or Passage by Water or Land out
+of the Territories, Limits or Places, aforesaid; and to and with all
+the Natives and People, inhabiting, or which shall inhabit within the
+Territories, Limits and Places aforesaid; and to and with all other
+Nations inhabiting any the Coasts adjacent to the said Territories,
+Limits and Places which are not already possessed as aforesaid, or
+whereof the sole Liberty or Privilege of Trade and Traffick is not
+granted to any other of Our Subjects. AND WE of our further Royal Favour,
+and of Our more especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion,
+HAVE granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
+DO grant to the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors,
+that neither the said Territories, Limits and Places, hereby granted
+as aforesaid, nor any Part thereof, nor the Islands, Havens, Ports,
+Cities, Towns or Places, thereof, or therein contained, shall be
+visited, frequented or haunted, by any of the Subjects of Us, Our
+Heirs or Successors, contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents,
+and by Virtue of Our Prerogative Royal, which We will not have in that
+Behalf argued or brought into Question; WE STREIGHTLY charge, command
+and prohibit, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, all the Subjects of Us,
+Our Heirs and Successors, of what Degree or Quality soever they be,
+that none of them directly or indirectly, do visit, haunt, frequent
+or trade, traffic or adventure, by way of Merchandize, into, or from
+any the said Territories, Limits or Places, hereby granted, or any,
+or either of them, other than the said Governor and Company, and such
+particular Persons as now be, or hereafter shall be, of that Company,
+their Agents, Factors, and Assigns, unless it be by the Licence and
+Agreement of the said Governor and Company in Writing first had and
+obtained, under their Common Seal, to be granted, upon Pain that every
+such Person or Persons that shall trade or traffick into or from any
+of the Countries, Territories or Limits aforesaid, other than the said
+Governor and Company, and their Successors, shall incur our Indignation,
+and the Forfeiture, and the Loss of the Goods, Merchandizes, and other
+Things whatsoever, which so shall be brought into this Realm of England,
+or any the Dominions of the same, contrary to our said Prohibition,
+or the Purport or true Meaning of these Presents, for which the said
+Governor and Company shall find, take and seize, in other Places out
+of our Dominions, where the said Company, their Agents, Factors or
+Ministers, shall trade, traffick or inhabit, by Virtue of these Our
+Letters Patent, as also the Ship and Ships, with the Furniture thereof,
+wherein such Goods, Merchandizes, and other Things, shall be brought and
+found, the one Half of all the said Forfeitures to be to Us, Our Heirs
+and Successors, and the other Half thereof WE DO by these Presents
+clearly and wholly for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, give and grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors. AND FURTHER,
+all and every the said Offenders, for their said Contempt, to suffer
+such other Punishment as to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, for so high
+a Contempt, shall seem meet and convenient, and not to be in anywise
+delivered until they, and every of them, shall become bound unto the
+said Governor for the time being in the Sum of One Thousand Pounds
+at the least, at no time then after to trade or traffick into any of
+the said Places, Seas, Streights, Bays, Ports, Havens or Territories,
+aforesaid, contrary to our express Commandment in that Behalf set
+down and published. AND FURTHER, of Our more especial Grace, WE HAVE
+condescended and granted, and by these Presents for Us, Our Heirs and
+Successors, DO grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their
+Successors, that We, Our Heirs and Successors, will not grant Liberty,
+Licence, or Power, to any Person or Persons whatsoever, contrary to
+the Tenor of these Our Letters Patent, to trade, traffick or inhabit,
+unto or upon any the Territories, Limits or Places, afore specified,
+contrary to the true Meaning of these Presents, without the Consent
+of the said Governor and Company, or the most part of them. AND, OF Our
+more abundant Grace and Favour to the said Governor and Company, WE DO
+hereby declare Our Will and Pleasure to be, That if it shall so happen,
+that any of the Persons free, or to be free of the said Company of
+Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, who shall, before the
+going forth of any Ship or Ships appointed for a VOYAGE, or otherwise,
+promise or agree by Writing under his or their Hands, to adventure
+any Sum or Sums of Money, towards the furnishing any Provision, or
+Maintenance of any Voyage or Voyages, set forth, or to be set forth, or
+intended or meant to be set forth, by the said Governor and Company, or
+the more Part of them present at any publick Assembly, commonly called
+Their General Court, shall not within the Space of twenty Days next
+after Warning given to him or them, by the said Governor or Company, or
+their known Officer or Minister, bring in and deliver to the Treasurer or
+Treasurers appointed for the Company, such Sums of Money as shall have
+been expressed and set down in Writing, by the said Person or Persons,
+subscribed with the Name of said Adventurer or Adventurers, that then,
+and at all Times after, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said
+Governor and Company, or the more Part of them present, whereof the
+said Governor or his Deputy to be one, at any of their General Courts
+or General Assemblies, to remove and disfranchise him or them, and
+every such Person and Persons at their Wills and Pleasures, and he or
+they so removed and disfranchised, not to be permitted to trade into
+the Countries, Territories, and Limits aforesaid, or any Part thereof,
+nor to have any Adventure or Stock going or remaining with or amongst
+the said Company, without the special Licence of the said Governor and
+Company, or the more Part of them present at any General Court, first had
+and obtained in that Behalf, any Thing before in these Presents to the
+contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. AND OUR WILL AND PLEASURE
+is, and hereby we do also ordain, That it shall and may be lawful,
+to and for the said Governor and Company, or the greater Part of them,
+whereof the Governor for the Time being, or his Deputy to be one, to
+admit into, and to be of the said Company, all such Servants or Factors,
+of or for the said Company, and all such others, as to them, or the
+most Part of them present, at any Court held for the said Company,
+the Governor or his Deputy being one, shall be thought fit and agreeable
+with the Orders and Ordinances made and to be made for the Government
+of the said Company. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is, and by these
+Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant unto the said
+Governor and Company, and to their Successors, that it shall and may be
+lawful in all Elections, and Bye-laws to be made by the General Court
+of the Adventurers of the said Company, that every Person shall have
+a number of Votes according to his Stock, that is to say, for every
+hundred Pounds by him subscribed or brought into the present Stock, one
+Vote, and that any of those that have subscribed less than one hundred
+Pounds, may join their respective Sums to make up one hundred Pounds,
+and have one Vote jointly for the same, and not otherwise. AND FURTHER,
+Of Our especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, WE DO for Us,
+Our Heirs and Successors, grant to and with the said Governor and Company
+of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay, that all Lands,
+Islands, Territories, Plantations, Forts, Fortifications, Factories, or
+Colonies, where the said Company's Factories and Trade are or shall be,
+within any the Ports or Places afore limited, shall be immediately and
+from henceforth, under the Power and Command of the said Governor and
+Company, their Successors and Assigns; saving the Faith and Allegiance
+due to be performed to Us, Our Heirs and Successors aforesaid; and
+that the said Governor and Company shall have Liberty, full Power and
+Authority, to appoint and establish Governors, and all other Officers
+to govern them, and that the Governor and his Council of the several and
+respective Places where the said Company shall have Plantations, Forts,
+Factories, Colonies, or Places of Trade within any the Countries, Lands
+or Territories hereby granted, may have Power to judge all Persons
+belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under
+them, in all Causes, whether Civil or Criminal, according to the Laws
+of this Kingdom, and to execute Justice accordingly. And, in Case any
+Crime or Misdemeanor shall be committed in any of the said Company's
+Plantations, Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade within the Limits
+aforesaid, where Judicature cannot be executed for want of a Governor
+and Council there, then in such Case it shall and may be lawful for
+the chief Factor of that Place and his Council, to transmit the
+Party, together with the Offence, to such other Plantation, Factory,
+or Fort, where there shall be a Governor and Council, where Justice may
+be executed, or into this Kingdom of England, as shall be thought
+most convenient, there to receive such Punishment as the Nature of
+his Offence shall deserve. AND MOREOVER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO GIVE
+and grant unto the said Governor and Company, and their Successors,
+free Liberty and Licence, in case they conceive it necessary, to send
+either Ships of War, Men or Ammunition, unto any their Plantations,
+Forts, Factories, or Places of Trade aforesaid, for the Security and
+Defence of the same, and to choose Commanders and Officers over them,
+and to give them Power and Authority, by Commission under their Common
+Seal or otherwise, to continue or make Peace or War with any Prince
+or People whatsoever, that are not Christians, in any Places where
+the said Company shall have any Plantations, Forts or Factories, or
+adjacent thereunto, as shall be most for the Advantage and Benefit of
+the said Governor and Company, and of their Trade; and also to right
+and recompense themselves upon the Goods, Estates or People of those
+Parts, by whom the said Governor and Company shall sustain any Injury,
+Loss, or Damage, or upon any other People whatsoever that shall any
+Way, contrary to the Intent of these Presents, interrupt, wrong or
+injure them in their said Trade, within the said Places, Territories,
+and Limits, granted by this Charter. And that it shall and may be lawful
+to and for the said Governor and Company, and their Successors, from
+time to time, and at all Times from henceforth, to erect and build such
+Castles, Fortifications, Forts, Garrisons, Colonies or Plantations,
+Towns or Villages, in any Parts or Places within the Limits and Bounds
+granted before in these Presents, unto the said Governor and Company,
+as they in their Discretion shall think fit and requisite, and for
+the Supply of such as shall be needful and convenient, to keep and be
+in the same, to send out of this Kingdom, to the said Castles, Forts,
+Fortifications, Garrisons, Colonies, Plantations, Towns or Villages, all
+Kinds of Cloathing, Provision of Victuals, Ammunition, and Implements,
+necessary for such Purpose, paying the Duties and Customs for the same,
+as also to transport and carry over such Number of Men being willing
+thereunto, or not prohibited, as they shall think fit, and also to
+govern them in such legal and reasonable Manner as the said Governor and
+Company shall think best, and to inflict Punishment for Misdemeanors,
+or impose such Fines upon them for Breach of their Orders, as in these
+Presents are formerly expressed. AND FURTHER, Our Will and Pleasure is,
+and by these Presents, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, WE DO grant
+unto the said Governor and Company, and to their Successors, full Power
+and lawful Authority to seize upon the Persons of all such English,
+or any other Our Subjects, which shall sail into Hudson's Bay, or
+inhabit in any of the Countries, Islands or Territories hereby granted
+to the said Governor and Company, without their Leave and License in
+that Behalf first had and obtained, or that shall contemn or disobey
+their Orders, and send them to England; and that all and every Person
+or Persons, being Our Subjects, any ways employed by the said Governor
+and Company, within any of the Parts, Places, and Limits aforesaid,
+shall be liable unto and suffer such Punishment for any Offences by
+them committed in the Parts aforesaid, as the President and Council
+for the said Governor and Company there shall think fit, and the Merit
+of the Offence shall require, as aforesaid; and in case any Person
+or Persons being convicted and sentenced by the President and Council
+of the said Governor and Company, in the Countries, Lands, or Limits
+aforesaid, their Factors or Agents there, for any Offence by them done,
+shall appeal from the same; that then and in such Case, it shall and
+may be lawful to and for the said President and Council, Factors,
+or Agents, to seize upon him or them, and to carry him or them home
+Prisoners into England, to the said Governor and Company, there to
+receive such condign Punishment as his Cause shall require, and
+the Law of this Nation allow of: and for the better Discovery of
+Abuses and Injuries to be done unto the said Governor and Company,
+or their Successors, by any Servant by them to be employed in the
+said Voyages and Plantations, it shall and may be lawful to and for
+the said Governor and Company, and their respective President, Chief
+Agent or Governor in the Parts aforesaid, to examine upon Oath all
+Factors, Masters, Pursers, Supercargoes, Commanders of Castles, Forts,
+Fortifications, Plantations or Colonies, or other Persons, touching or
+concerning any Matter or Thing, in which by Law or Usage an Oath may
+be administered, so as the said Oath, and the Matter therein contained,
+be not repugnant, but agreeable to the laws of this Realm. AND, WE DO
+hereby streightly charge and command all and singular, our Admirals,
+Vice-Admirals, Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, and
+all and singular other our Officers, Ministers, Liege Men and Subjects
+whatsoever, to be aiding, favouring, helping and assisting, to the said
+Governor and Company, and to their Successors, and to their Deputies,
+Officers, Factors, Servants, Assigns and Ministers, and every of them,
+in executing and enjoying the Premisses, as well on Land as on Sea,
+from time to time, when any of you shall thereunto be required; ANY
+STATUTE, Act, Ordinance, Proviso, Proclamation, or Restraint heretofore
+had, made, set forth, ordained, or provided, or any other Matter,
+Cause or Thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding,
+IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent;
+WITNESS OURSELF at Westminster, the Second Day of May, in the Two and
+Twentieth Year of Our Reign.
+
+By Writ of Privy Seal,
+PIGOTT.
+
+
+
+
+SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER,
+9th September, 1884.
+
+
+Victoria, by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
+and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, to all to
+whom these presents shall come, greeting.
+
+_Whereas by a Royal charter granted on the 2nd day of May in the
+two-and-twentieth year of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles
+the Second (in this our charter called "the original charter"), a
+company was incorporated by the name of "The Governor and Company of
+Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" with a common seal,
+for the purpose of trading within the territories mentioned in said
+original charter:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter, after declaring that one of
+the Company should be elected in manner thereafter mentioned, to be
+called the Governor of the Company, and that the said Governor and
+Company should or might elect seven of their members in such form as
+thereafter mentioned, to be called the Committee of the Company, which
+Committee of seven or any three of them, together with the Governor
+or the Deputy-Governor for the time being, should have the general
+management of the affairs of the Company, it was declared that the
+Governor and Company and their successors should from thenceforth for
+ever be ruled, ordered, and governed according to such manner and form
+as was thereafter expressed, and not otherwise:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter, after appointing Prince
+Rupert to be the first Governor of the Company, and seven persons to
+be the seven first Committees of the Company, it was provided that
+it should and might be lawful to or for the said Governor and Company
+for the time being or the greater part of them at any public assembly,
+commonly called the Court General, to be holden for the said Company,
+the Governor of the said Company being always one from time to time,
+to elect, nominate, and appoint one of the said Company to be Deputy to
+the said Governor, which Deputy should take a corporal oath before the
+Governor and three or more of the Committee of the said Company for the
+time being, well and truly and faithfully to execute his said office
+of Deputy to the Governor of the said Company, and after his oath so
+taken should and might from time to time, in the absence of the said
+Governor, exercise and execute the office of Governor of the said
+Company in such sort as the said Governor ought to do:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election
+in each and every year between the first and last day of November of one
+of the Company to be Governor for one whole year then next following,
+and required the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being to be
+present at each such election, and required the person so elected to
+be Governor of the Company, before being admitted to execute his office,
+to take a corporal oath before the last Governor being his predecessor,
+or his Deputy, and any three or more of the Committee of the said
+Company for the time being, that he would well and truly execute the
+office of Governor:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the election
+in each and every year between the first and last day of November of
+seven of the Company to be a Committee of the Company for one whole year
+then next ensuing, and required the Governor or the Deputy-Governor of
+the Company for the time being to be present at each, such election,
+and required the persons so elected to be a Committee of the Company,
+before being admitted to execute their office to take a corporal oath
+that they and every of them should well and faithfully perform their
+office of Committee.
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided for the
+election of a Governor or a Deputy-Governor of the Company in the
+event of the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being, at any
+time within one year after being elected and sworn to the office of
+Governor or Deputy-Governor, dying or being removed from his office
+(which Governor or Deputy-Governor not demeaning himself well in his
+office was to be removeable at the pleasure of the rest of the Company
+or the greater part of them present at a general court), and provided
+that the Governor or Deputy-Governor so elected should hold office for
+the residue of the said year, and before being admitted to execute his
+office should take a corporal oath as aforesaid:
+
+And whereas the said original charter similarly provided in the event
+of any person or persons of the Committee of the Company for the time
+being within one year after being elected and sworn to such office
+dying or being removed from his or their office (which Committee not
+demeaning themselves well in their said office were to be removeable at
+the pleasure of the Governor and Company or the greater part of them,
+whereof the Governor for the time being, or his deputy should be one),
+for the election of one or more of the Company to be of the Committee
+in the place of him or them dying or being removed as aforesaid,
+and the said original charter provided that the person or persons
+so elected should hold office for the residue of the said year, and
+before being admitted to execute the office of Committee should take
+a corporal oath as aforesaid, and the Governor or the Deputy-Governor
+for the time being was required to be present at each such election.
+
+And whereas by the said original charter the Governor and Company were
+empowered to assemble themselves and hold court for the Company and
+the affairs thereof, and it was thereby declared that it should be
+lawful for them and the greater part of them present at such assembly,
+whereof the Governor or his Deputy for the time being should be one,
+to make, ordain, and constitute such and so many laws, constitutions,
+orders, and ordinances as to them or the greater part of them being there
+present should seem necessary and convenient for the good government
+of the Company, and at their pleasure to revoke and alter the same or
+any of them as the occasion should require:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter the Governor or Deputy-Governor
+for the time being was required to be present at the admission into
+the Company of servants, factors, and other persons:
+
+And whereas by the said original charter it was declared that it should
+be lawful in all elections and bye-laws to be made by the general court
+of the Adventurers of the said Company, that every person should have
+a number of votes according to his stock, that was to say, for every
+hundred pounds by him subscribed or brought into the present stock one
+vote, and that any of those who had subscribed less than one hundred
+pounds might join their respective sums to make up one hundred pounds
+and have one vote jointly for the same, and not otherwise:
+
+And whereas by a deed under the seal of the Company, dated the nineteenth
+November, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, certain rights of
+government and other rights and privileges granted, by the said original
+charter, but not affecting the subject matter of this our charter,
+were duly surrendered to Her Majesty, and such surrender was duly
+accepted by Her Majesty by an instrument under her sign manual:
+
+And whereas for many years the capital of the Company has comprised no
+stock, but has been and is now divided into shares of equal value, and
+it is desirable that the qualification for votes should be changed from
+the holding of stock in the Company to the holding of shares therein:
+
+And whereas many of the provisions contained in the original charter have
+been found very inconvenient in practice, and are not in accordance with
+the usual provisions regulating the affairs of modern companies, and in
+particular the following provisions have been found very inconvenient,
+that is to say: the provisions requiring the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committee to be elected every year, and fixing the date of the
+election between the first and last day of November; the provisions
+requiring the presence of the Governor or Deputy-Governor at the general
+courts for the elections of Governors or Members of the Committee, and at
+the general courts assembled for the purpose of making bye-laws, and on
+other occasions specified in the said original charter; the provisions
+requiring a corporal oath to be taken by the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committee, and by certain other persons on certain occasions.
+
+And whereas, in addition to the above provisions complained of, the
+absence of any power in the said original charter enabling the Governor,
+Deputy-Governor, or any member of the Committee, to resign office, or
+enabling votes to be taken by proxy, and the absence of several other
+powers usually given to trading companies for the better regulation
+of their internal affairs, has been found in practice to be very
+inconvenient and detrimental to the interests of the Company.
+
+And whereas the Company is desirous that the provisions in the original
+charter above complained of should be cancelled or modified, and
+has applied to us for a supplemental charter embodying more suitable
+provisions._
+
+Now know ye that We by these presents do will and ordain that the
+several provisions contained in the said original charter relating to
+the election to the office of Governor, Deputy-Governor, or Committee,
+and to the filling up of any vacancy in any such office, and requiring
+corporal oaths to be taken, and the other provisions contained in the
+said original charter, shall, so far as they are inconsistent with the
+provisions contained in this our charter, on and after the day of the
+date of this our charter, cease to be in force and be annulled.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the presence of the Governor or
+Deputy-Governor at any general court or at any meeting of the Governor,
+Deputy-Governor, and Committee (who are hereinafter collectively referred
+to as the Board) shall not be essential for the proper holding of such
+court or Board meeting, and that nothing done at any general court or
+meeting of the Board shall be questioned or disputed on the ground
+of the absence of the Governor or Deputy-Governor from such general
+court or meeting of the Board, and that in case neither the Governor
+nor Deputy-Governor happen to be present at any such general court or
+meeting of the Board, at the appointed time for holding such general
+court or meeting of the Board, the members of the Committee present or
+the major part of them shall nominate and appoint one of themselves
+Chairman or President of such court or Board, and that the general
+powers of management and other powers given by the said original charter
+to any three members of the Committee, together with the Governor or
+Deputy-Governor, shall be exerciseable by any four members of the Board,
+whether the Governor or Deputy-Governor shall form one of such four or
+not.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, a general court for the Company shall
+be held every year at such place and on such day in November or December
+as may be appointed by the Board.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that every question submitted
+to a general court shall be decided by a show of hands, unless before
+or upon the declaration of the result of the show of hands, a poll is
+demanded by at least five members present at such general court, and
+holding in the aggregate not less than One hundred shares, and unless
+a poll is so demanded a declaration by the Chairman that the motion has
+been carried or lost, or carried or lost by a particular majority, shall
+be deemed conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number or
+the proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the motion,
+and that if a poll is demanded as aforesaid, it shall be taken in such
+manner and at such time and place and either at once or after an interval
+or adjournment, as the Chairman of the general court directs, and the
+result of such poll shall be deemed to be the resolution of the general
+court at which the poll was demanded. In case of an equality of votes,
+the Chairman shall, whether on a show of hands or at the poll, have a
+casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled
+as a member.
+
+In computing the majority when a poll is demanded, reference shall be
+had to the number of votes to which each member is entitled by this our
+charter.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, every member of the Company shall
+have one vote for every five shares in the Company held by him, and
+that any of those members who hold less than five shares may join their
+respective shares, so as to make up five or more shares, and have one
+vote jointly for the same; provided nevertheless that no member shall
+be entitled to vote, or to join with any other member or members in
+making up a joint vote at any general Court in respect of any shares
+or share, unless he shall have been the holder of such shares or share
+for at least six months prior to such general Court.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that votes may be given at
+every general court either personally or by proxy, but such proxy must
+be a proprietor in the Company, and himself entitled to vote, and the
+appointment of every such proxy must be in writing and must be in the
+form following or to the like effect, that is to say:
+
+  I (or we) appoint ___ my (our) proxy to vote and act for
+  me (us) and in my (our) name (names) on all questions at
+  the general court of the Hudson's Bay Company to be held
+  on the ___ day of ___ and every adjournment thereof whereat
+  I (we) shall not be present in person. Dated this ___ of ___.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that the Chairman may, with
+the consent of the meeting, adjourn any general court from time to time
+and place to place, but that no business shall be transacted at any
+adjourned general court other than the business left unfinished at the
+general court from which the adjournment took place.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+and Committeemen shall, after the year One thousand eight hundred
+and eighty-four, hold their respective offices subject to retirement
+by rotation as hereinafter provided, that is to say, at the general
+court to be held in the year One thousand eight hundred and eighty-five,
+and at every succeeding general court, three members of the Board shall
+retire from office, and that, until all the present Board shall in turn
+have retired, the members of the Board to retire shall from time to time
+be determined by ballot or otherwise amongst the members of the present
+Board, or such of them as for the time being shall not have retired,
+but afterwards the members of the Board to retire shall be those who
+shall have been longest in office since their last election, and as
+between members of the Board of equal seniority the member or members to
+retire shall be determined by lot; provided always that the Governor and
+Deputy-Governor shall not both retire at the same time, and that in the
+ballot for determining who shall retire in the year One thousand eight
+hundred and eighty-five, the Governor and Deputy-Governor shall not both
+be included, but only one of them, such one to be determined by lot;
+and in the event of neither the Governor nor the Deputy-Governor being
+selected by ballot to retire in the year One thousand eight hundred and
+eighty-five, one of them to be determined by lot shall retire in the
+year One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. And provided always
+that a retiring member of the Board shall be eligible for re-election,
+and that, if the retiring member be the Governor or Deputy-Governor of
+the Company, he shall be eligible for re-election, or any other member of
+the Board shall be eligible for election as Governor or Deputy-Governor
+respectively; and in the event of any member of the Board being elected to
+the office of Governor or Deputy-Governor, in the place of the retiring
+Governor or Deputy-Governor such member shall be deemed to have retired
+from his former office.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the Company at any general court at
+which any members of the Board retire in manner aforesaid shall if it be
+the turn for the Governor or Deputy-Governor to retire first fill up that
+office, and then shall fill up the other vacated offices, including any
+office rendered vacant by the election of any member of the Board to the
+office of Governor or Deputy-Governor as aforesaid, by electing a like
+number of persons to be members of the Board; and that every election or
+re-election to the office of Governor, Deputy-Governor, or Committee shall
+be conducted in the manner and according to the forms from time to time
+to be prescribed by the bye-laws of the Company, and that such notice
+of the names of every candidate for election or re-election to any such
+office shall be given as may be required by the bye-laws for the time
+being in force.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, any member of the Board may at
+any time give notice to the Board in writing of his wish to resign,
+and on the acceptance of his resignation by the Board, but not before,
+his office shall be vacant.
+
+Nothing in this our charter contained shall affect the power given by the
+original charter to the Company to remove any Governor, Deputy-Governor,
+or member of the Committee who should not demean himself well in his
+respective office.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+in the original charter contained, any casual vacancy occurring among
+the members of the Board through death, resignation, removal, or other
+cause, except the expiration of the period of office, may be filled up by
+the Board or the remaining members of the Board, whatever there number
+may be, and if the casual vacancy occur in the office of Governor or
+Deputy-Governor, such vacancy may be filled by electing any one of the
+remaining members of the Board; and if so filled up a casual vacancy shall
+be deemed to have occurred in the office of the member of the Board so
+elected to the office of Governor or Deputy-Governor; provided always that
+any person so chosen to fill up any casual vacancy shall retain his office
+until the next general court held for the election of members of the
+Board, and at such general court the Company shall either confirm such
+person in his office or shall elect some other person to hold such office
+in his place, and provided always that the person so chosen and confirmed
+as aforesaid or the person elected by the Company in his stead (as the
+case may be) shall retain his office so long only as the vacating member
+of the Board would have retained the same if no vacancy had occurred,
+and provided always that, notwithstanding any vacancy in the Board,
+the continuing members of the Board may act so long as there remains
+not less than four members of the Board.
+
+And We do hereby further will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything
+contained in the original charter, the corporal oath thereby required to
+be taken on the occasions and by the persons therein mentioned shall no
+longer be required to be taken by any person on any occasion whatsoever.
+
+In witness whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made
+patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the ninth day of September,
+in the forty-eighth year of our reign.
+
+BY WARRANT UNDER THE QUEEN'S SIGN MANUAL.
+
+PALMER.
+[Seal.]
+
+LONDON: PRINTED BY SIR JOSEPH CAUSTON & SONS
+47, EASTCHEAP, E.C. AND 114, SOUTHWARK STREET, S.E.
+
+
+
+
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