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SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER OF BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. VICTORIA by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith.
To all to whom these presents shall come GREETING.
WHEREAS by Our Charter or Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of Our I'nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the 29th day of October, 1889, We did grant, ordain, and declare that the Most Noble JAMES, DUKE OF ABERCORN, now Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; the Most Noble ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE, DUKE OF FIFE, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Privy Councillor; the Right Honourable EDRIC FREDERICK, LORD GIFFORD, V.C.; CECIL JOHN RHODES, Esq., Member of the Executive Council and of the House of Assembly of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, now the Right Honourable CECIL JOHN RHODES; ALFRED BEIT, Esq., merchant; ALBERT HENRY GEORGE GREY, Esq., now the Right Honourable EARL GREY, and GEORGE CAWSTON, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and such other persons and such bodies as from time to time should become and be members of the body politic and corporate thereby constituted, erected, and incorporated should be constituted, erected, and incorporated into one body politic and corporate by the name of the British South Africa Company, by which name they should have perpetual succession and a common seal with such powers as in the same Charter mentioned:
And WHEREAS it is expedient that Our said Charter should be amended as hereinafter provided :
And WHEREAS the said British South Africa Company has agreed to accept the said amendments :
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Now know ye that We of Our especial grace and mere motion have willed, ordainel, constituted, and declared, and by these presents for Us, Our heirs and successors, will, ordain, constitute, and declare, and unto the said British South Africa Company do grant, in manner following.
1. This Charter shall be read and construed as one with the Charter granted by Us on the 29th October, 1889, to the British South Africa Company, which said Charter is herein referred to as the Principal Charter,
3. Article 29 of the Principal Charter is hereby repealed, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder.
2.2. So much of Article 10 of the Principal Charter as provides that the Company may make Ordinances to be approved by Our Secretary of State is hereby repealed, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder. Provided that the Company may continue to make Ordinances to be approved as aforesaid until the date on which a Legislative Council to be established for Southern Rhodesia shall assemble, and there- upon such powers shall altogether cease and determine,
4. Nothing in the Principal Charter shall authorize the Company to establish or maintain any force of military police.
5. Any person or persons duly authorized in that behalf in writing by Our Secretary of State shall at all convenient times have access to all documents of the Company, and shall be furnished by the Company or its officers and servants with true copies of any
>uch documents as aforesaid as and when he may require.
6. The Directors of the Company shall, within eight days from the passing or recording thereof, cause to be transmitted to Our Secretary of State true copies of all resolutions, minutes, orders, or other proceedings of the Board of Directors or of any Committee thereof which relate to the administration by the Company of the territories within its field of operations, and Our Secretary of State may intimate to the Directors at any time his dissent from any such resolution, minute, order, or other proceeding, or may require the same to be cancelled or amended or the operation thereof to be suspended for such time or in such manner as he shall direct, and thereupon the operation any such resolution, order, minute, or proceeding shall, as and from a date named by Our Secretary of State, or, if no date is named, as and from the date of such direction, be cancelled, amended, or the operation thereof suspended, accordingly, but without prejudice to anything lawfully done thereunder.
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7. Any Director, Officer, or servant of the Company who in the opinion of Our Secretary of State shall refuse or neglect
(1) to comply with any of the requirements of Our Secretary of State made under
the provisions of the Principal Charter or of any supplemental Charter, or
(2) to comply with the provisions of the last preceding Article of this Our
Supplemental Charter,
shall, if Our Secretary of State shall so direct, cease to be a Director, Officer, or servant of the Company, and the Company shall not employ in any capacity whatsoever any such Director, Officer, or servant without the permission in writing of Our Secretary of State first had and obtained.
8. Nothing herein or in the Principal Charter contained shall be deemed to impose upon Our Secretary of State or upon the Lords Commissioners of Our Treasury any liability with respect to any matter relating to the financial concerns or commercial undertakings of the Company.
9. In this Charter and in the Principal Charter, unless the contrary intention
"document shall include minute," resolution,"
""letter,"
appears,
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order, "book,"
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map," "code," "cypher," or any other printed, typed, or written matter of any nature whatsoever, or any copy thereof.
DEED OF SETTLEMENT.
Article 3.
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R. B. F.
(2.) To undertake and carry on the government or administration of any territories, districts or places in Africa, and therefor and therein to make laws and ordinances, and to impose and levy taxes, and raise revenue, and to establish and maintain a force of police not being military police.
Article 82.
R. E. W. R. B. F.
The raid -Duke of Abercorn, the said Duke of Fife, and the said Albert Henry-George Grey ~ill continue-in-office pursuant and subject to the provisions of the Charter: shall (subject to the provisions of this Deed respecting managing Directors) retire from All other Directors office at the Annual Meeting in the year-lel-and in every succeeding year but shall be eligible for re-election.
R. E. W R. B. F.