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DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER referred to in the foregoing Order in Council.
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EDWARD THE SEVENTH by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith. To all to whom these presents shall come GREETING :
WHEREAS by Royal Charter granted by Her late Majesty Queen Victoria under Her Great Seal bearing date at Westminster the 29th day of December in the 17th year of Her Reign (in this Our Charter called "the original Charter ") a Company was incorporated by the name of the Chartered Bank of India Australia and China with a Common Seal for the purpose of carrying on in London under the management of a Court of Directors by means of Banks or Branch Bauks the business of Banking in any of Her Colonies or Dependencies in Australia and New Zealand in the Islands of Ceylon and Hong Kong or at any other Port Town City or place in China where a Consulate had been or might thereafter be established or which might be under the superintendence of the principal superintendent of trade at Hong Kong, provided that no such Banks or Branch Banks should be established in any of Her Colonies or Dependencies in Australia or New Zealand unless the previous assent thereto of the Commissioners of Her Treasury should have been signified in writing under their hands or the hands of any two of them and for the purpose of establishing agencies in the Chief Ports of India and in any of Her Colonies or Possessions eastward of the Cape of Good Hope in which no Banks or Branch Banks might have been established in virtue of Her Charter and in other Chief Ports or places of trade in the East in order to conduct the business of exchange deposit and remittance in connection with their other establishments but subject to the conditions in the original Charter contained.
And whereas by a Supplemental Charter under Her said late Majesty's Great Seal lated the 20th day of July 1861 Her said late Majesty authorised the said Company to establish a Bank or Branch Bank in the Island of Singapore for the purpose of carrying on the general business of Bauking under the provisions of the original Charter in the Island of Singapore and adjoining British Settlements that is to say Penang and Malacca but subject to the conditions in the said Supple- mentary Charter contained.
And whereas by the original Charter Her said late Majesty declared that on the determination of the term of Twenty one years from the date thereof the privileges thereby conferred on the said Company should cease unless Her said late Majesty Her heirs or successors should by writing under the Great Seal declare to the contrary and should authorise the said Company to continue incorporated under the original Charter for a further term of ten years or for
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