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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

MY LORD,

No. 143.

(CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.)

LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.

We are honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Malcolm's

Temple, 30th June 1877. letter of the 26th of April last, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to transmit to us the copy of a despatch from the late Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, enclosing and recommending a Memorial from the Council of the University of No. 36, 18th Feb- that Colony to the Queen, praying that Her Majesty would be graciously pleased to ruary 1877. declare that degrees already granted or conferred, or hereafter to be granted or January 1877. conferred, by the University should be recognised generally throughout Her Majesty's dominions.

2. That Mr. Malcolm also transmitted copies of the local Acts incorporating the University, and the draft of a proposed Charter for giving effect to the wishes of the Memorialists.

The University Act, 1978, No. 16

Incorporation

of 1878. The University Extention Act,

1875, No. 9 of

Draft Charter.

copy of the Uni-

3. That we would perceive that the proposed Charter had been drawn up, as nearly as the circumstances of the case would admit, in the same terms as the Charter for the 1876 University of New Zealand, of which Mr. Malcolm enclosed a printed copy for our Bee enclosed information. That as the Institution appeared likely to exercise a beneficial influence ersity Calendar on the promotion of education in the Colony, your Lordship was desirous of recom- 7 and 0. mending it for any distinction either simply honorary or calculated to strengthen its means of usefulness which it might be proper for the Crown to bestow, and the proposed Charter had been framed with this intent.

4. That Mr. Malcolm was to request that we would take these papers into our con- sideration and state, for your Lordship's information, whether we thought_that Letters Patent might be granted to the University of the Cape of Good Hope, empowering it to confer academical degrees in the form proposed, bearing at the same time in mind that, unless for some strong reasons, it would be expedient to adhere as closely as possible to the terms of the 'last precedent (New Zealand) adopted in Australasia.

In obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to

Report

That we think that Letters Patent may be granted to the University of the Cape of

Good Hope empowering to confer academical degrees in the form proposed.

(Signed)

&c.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Carnarvon,

&c.

&c.

We have, &c.,

JOHN HOLKER. HARDINGE S. GIFFARD.

for 1877, pages

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