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in a certain plan thereto annexed, and thereinaft
tically described, and every or any part or part
and which said lands and tenements with the
buildings erected thereon, comprised an area of 300
3 moods, and 28 poles, or thereabouts, and were situate.
the several parishes, townships, hamlets, or places-of

and Penge in our County of Surrey, and Beckh
and Lewisham in our County of Kent. And recitin
Samuel Laing and Arthur Anderson, Charles Lushir
John Scott Russell, Francis Fuller, Thomas Newm
quar, Charles Geach and Edward Sexton Pery Cre
quies, the Directors of the said Company, and
executed the said Deed, had by their petition to us
that we should grant unto the said Company, o
Charter of Incorporation for the better completion an
ing into effect the objects and purposes of the sie
pa, and which we were minded to do. We did

Boyal Charter, give, grant, and ordain that the
Samuel Laing, John Scott Russell, Francis Fuller.
ach other persons, and all bodies politic or corpo
hare became, or from time to time thereafter might
in the manner provided for by the said recited Inde
Deed of Settlement, members of the said Copart
Company, and should hold Shares in the Capital
should be one body politic and corporate, by the
The Crystal Palace Company" for the purpose

Deed of Settlement mentioned, but subject never
to the conditions, restrictions, regulations and provis
the said Deed, and in our said Royal Charter e
and so that the business of the said Company, so
orporated, might be carried on in all respects accan
the terms and provisions of the said Indenture of Se
so far as the same were in conformity with the Le
Bealm, and so far as the same were not inconsistent
pugnant to our Royal Charter, and by that name
se and be sued, implead and be impleaded in altre
whether in Law or Equity, as well in our United ther
of Great Britain and Ireland, as elsewhere, and shoes,
Perpetual succession with a Common Seal. And Beeke

Company should sell, and absolutely dispose of all such of the said lands as should not be required and appropriated for the purposes of the said undertaking within ten years from the date of our said Royal Charter, and apply the money arising therefrom to the purposes of the said Company, and should within 21 days after every such sale certify in writing to our said Board of Trade the quantity sold, and the price for which, and the persons to whom the same should be sold. And that by our said Royal Charter we did declare that our said Royal Charter was granted amongst other conditions on the condition following (that is to say) that no spirituous or other fermented or intoxicating liquors should be furnished to the persons visiting the said Building or Grounds of the said Company, and that due provision should be made by the attendance of a sufficient number of servants and others, in and about the grounds attached to the building for the observance and enforcement of orderly conduct on the part of the Visitors or persons resorting to the said Exhibition. And we did further will and declare that the several rules, regulations, clauses and agreements contained in the said recited Deed of Settlement, or to be contained in any such Bye Laws to be made as in the said Deed of Settlement is mentioned, should be deemed and construed to be the existing rules and regulations of the said Company, save and except in so far as any of them were or might be altered or varied or might be inconsistent or repugnant to the Laws or Statutes of our realm or to our said Royal Charter. AND WHEREAS it hath been further represented to us that the said Crystal Palace Company did by their Petition presented to us in Council (amongst other things), state, That under the powers aforesaid the said Company purchased 350 acres or thereabouts, part of the said Lands which they were authorized to purchase as aforesaid, and that they proceeded to lay out portions thereof for the purpose of re-erecting thereon the same building with certain alterations and additions thereto, and Gardens, Terraces, Parks, and other works, surrounding the same. That the said Company afterwards sold about 17 acres of the said Land to the Brighton Railway Company for the purpose of forming a Branch Railway to the said building, and that they also sold about 130 acres to Mr. George Wythes, of Reigate; and

that the Lands now held by the said Crystal Palace Company consisted of 200 acres or thereabouts. That the said Building has been re-erected on the summit of Norwood Hill, on the east side of the public road leading from Nor wood to Sydenham and Dulwich. That it might also become necessary for the said Company to purchase or hold other lands for the purpose of the said undertaking. That the said Building was intended to combine all the various objects of interest and instruction which characterized the Great Exhibition Building of 1851 in Hyde Park, and also Egyptian, Roman, Italian, Pompeian, Assyrian, and other Courts, illustrative of works of art and European and National interest. That it was intended to open the said Building and Grounds to the public in the month of May, 1854. That the said Crystal Palace Company intended to appropriate a portion of the said Building for the purpose of affording suit able light refreshments to Visitors frequenting the same; but that they were of opinion that this provision would not suffi ciently meet the requirements of Visitors, who might reasonably be expected to spend the whole day in the Building and Grounds, and would therefore require to be provided with Dinners, including wine, spirituous and other fermented liquors, as are afforded in ordinary places of Refreshment, and that it was desirable that they should be enabled to meet with such accommodation without having to leave the Building or Grounds and resorting to the surrounding places of refreshment. And that the said Company did by their said petition humbly pray that we would be pleased to grant a Supplemental Charter, empowering the said Company to purchase or to take and hold on lease, in the name of the said Company or of Trustees or a Trustee thereof, the several lands and hereditaments in the said petition mentioned, and any others that might be required for the purposes of the said undertaking, with power to sell, sublet, assign, or otherwise dispose of any part or parts thereof; and also to revoke the aforesaid restriction as to the sale of wine, spirituous and other fermented liquors, so as to enable the Company to sell the same, when and if they should be duly licensed so to do.

NOW KNOW YE that having taken the premises into our Royal consideration, and of our especial grace, cer

tain knowledge, and mere motion, WE, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, Do give, grant, and ordain that, notwithstanding anything in our said recited Charter contained, it shall be lawful for the said Crystal Palace Company to purchase (either in fee simple or for any term or number of years or other limited interest), take, acquire, hold, and enjoy, to them and to their successors, or to or by means of Trustees or a Trustee in trust for the said Company for the purposes of the said undertaking, such lands or hereditaments, situate in our said Counties of Surrey and Kent or either of them, other than those already authorized to be acquired by the said Company under our said recited Royal Charter, as may be considered desirable to be acquired for the purposes of the said undertaking and the successful prosecution thereof, but not for the purpose of speculation or for any other purpose than as aforesaid (not exceeding in the whole the extent of 20 acres), and to sell, let, convey, lease, assign, and dispose of the same lands or hereditaments, or any part thereof which shall not be required for the purposes of the said undertaking, and to lay out and appropriate such parts of the said Lands as the said Company may from time to time deem expedient in the formation of Roads or otherwise conducive to the benefit and beneficial management of the said undertaking. But so, nevertheless, that the said Company shall, within ten years from the date of this our Royal Supplemental Charter, sell and absolutely dispose of all such of the said lands and hereditaments so to be acquired as shall not be required and appropriated for the purposes of the said undertaking, and apply the money arising therefrom to the purposes of the said Company. And further, we do hereby expressly direct and declare that when and as often as any purchase or lease of messuages, lands, or hereditaments shall be made or taken by the said Crystal Palace Company, the Board of Directors of the said Čompany shall in all cases, within three calendar months from the making and completing any such purchase or lease, report the same in writing to the President for the time being of the said Board of Trade, and stating the amount of the purchase money paid for the same and any rent payable in respect thereof, and giving a description of the messuages, lands, and hereditaments so purchased or taken on lease, and