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ALEXANDER by the Grace of God King of Hanover, Supreme Governor of the Church of Hanover, Defender of the Faith to all Our Loving Subjects Whatsoever to Whom these Presents shall come, GREETING:
WHEREAS a Petition has been presented to Us praying Us to erect within the Colony of New Bergen for the promotion of the visual Arts and to grant a Charter with such appropriate provisions therein in that behalf as shall seem to Us meet and fit;
AND WHEREAS We have taken the said Petition into Our Royal consideration and are minded to accede thereto;
NOW THEREFORE KNOW YE that We by Virtue of Our Royal Prerogative in that behalf and all other powers enabling Us so to do of Our special grace certain knowledge and mere motion by these Presents do for Us Our Heirs and Successors grant, will, direct and ordain as follows:
There shall be from henceforth as Our good pleasure determines be in Our said Colony of New Bergen a Gallery for the Visual arts by the name and style of "New Bergen Royal Gallery", the objects of which are:
1. The teaching and composition of the visual arts
2. Art appreciation
3. The publication of related news
4. The public display of local artists
Our friend Nox Pinion and all others who shall, pursuant to this Our Charter and the Statutes of the New Bergen Royal Gallery, for the time being be members of the Gallery, are hereby created and from henceforth for ever shall be one body politic and corporate with perpetual succession and a Common Seal by the name and style of "New Bergen Royal Gallery" with full power and capacity by and in such name to sue and be sued and to take and hold and to do all other lawful acts whatsoever, especially including the right to hold and oversee property granted by the Crown for such purposes as the New Bergen Royal Gallery may have appropriated to it. All such holding shall display the Royal coat of arms of the Colony of New Bergen and shall make this charter available to all.
We Our Heirs and Successors Kings and Queens of the Kingdom of Hanover shall be and remain the Sovereign of the New Bergen Royal Gallery personally or through Whatsoever Person We shall so designate for the time being.
There shall be a Master Curator of the said Gallery.
The first Master Curator shall be Our said friend Nox Pinion.
There shall be such other senior officers as may be designated by the Statutes of the Gallery.
Statutes of the Gallery shall regulate the performance of the duties of officers of the Gallery, the filling of vacancies among the members and all other matters relative to the administration of the Gallery which it may be thought are proper to be so regulated.
The Master Curator may add to, amend, alter or repeal the Statutes from time to time in force and the power to make Statutes shall not be limited by or with reference to existing or any subsequent Statutes or the several subject matters therein dealt with.
Any Statutes to be hereinafter made which are not repugnant to the provisions of this Charter or the Laws of Our Realm shall be operative and have effect when allowed by Us or by Our Governor General of the Colony of New Bergen and not before. Such allowance shall be conclusive evidence of the Statutes so allowed being authorized by the provisions of this Charter.
The Master Curator of the Gallery may from time to time make standing orders for governing subject to these presents and the Statutes of the Gallery the proceedings of those bodies respectively. The power to make standing orders shall include the power to add to amend alter or repeal any theretofore made.
The Master Curator of the Gallery at any time may alter or amend or add to these presents and their provisions by a Special Resolution in that behalf and such alteration amendment or addition shall when allowed by Us Our Heirs or Successors under the sign manual or otherwise as We or They shall deem meet become effectual so that these presents shall thenceforward continue and operate as though they had been originally granted and made as so altered amended or added to as aforesaid. This Article of these presents shall apply to this Charter as altered amended or added to in manner aforesaid. A Special Resolution means a Resolution passed and confirmed in the manner provided by the Statutes of the Conservatory.
Our Royal Will and Pleasure is that these presents shall ever be construed benevolently and in every case most favorably to the New Bergen Royal Gallery and the promotion of the objects of this Our Charter.
This Our Charter shall come into force on such date as it shall be published by Our Chancery in Our Royal Gazette.
IN WITNESS whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent.
WITNESS Ourself at St. George's this Third day of January in the year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Eight, the Fifth year of Our Reign.
Alexander R.
BY WARRANT UNDER THE KING'S SIGN MANUAL
