nferring such degrees
in such manner as shall be directed by the statutes, rules, and
ordinances, of the aforesaid College; and we do, by these presents
for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, grant and declare that these Our
Letters Patent, or the enrolments or exemplifications thereof,
shall and may be good, firm, valid, sufficient, and effectual, in
the law according to the intent and meaning of the same, and shall
be taken, construed, and adjudged in the most favorable and
beneficial sense for the best advantage of the said Governors,
Principal, and Fellows, and Scholars of the said College of
Montreal aforesaid, as well in all Our Courts of Record, as
elsewhere, and by all and singular Judges, Justices, Officers,
Ministers, and other subjects whatsoever, of Us, Our Heirs and
Successors, any misrecital, non-recital, omission, imperfection,
defect, matter, cause, or thing whatsoever, to the contrary
thereof, in anywise notwithstanding, without fine or fee, great or
small, to be for the same in any manner rendered, done, or paid to
Us in Our hanaper, or elsewhere, to Our use. In witness whereof we
have caused these our letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at
Westminster, the thirty-first day of March, in the second year of
Our Reign. (1821.)

"By Writ of Privy Seal,

"(Signed) BATHURST."

And whereas it is deemed expedient for the interests of the said
College, and for the augmentation of its funds, and for the better and
more easy management of its affairs and the government of the said
College, to make certain alterations in the provisions of the said
hereinbefore recited and existing Letters Patent, which said alterations
are and have been assented to by the said Royal Institution for the
Advancement of Learning and by the said Corporation of the said
College:

Now Know Ye, that We, of Our special Grace, certain Knowledge and mere
motion, have willed, ordained and granted, and by these presents do, for
Us, Our Heirs, and Successors, will, ordain and grant that henceforth
from the date hereof, the members of the Royal Institution aforesaid for
the time being shall be and remain Governors of the said College, and
shall have and exercise all and every the powers, authority and
jurisdiction given and granted unto the Governors nominated and
appointed in and by the said Letters Patent,