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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

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bital of 1. WHEREAS by Royal Charter granted by Her late Majesty arter of corporation. 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 Brunch Banks the business of Banking in any of Her Colonies or Dependen- cies in Australia and New Zealand in the Islands of Ceylon

or 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 Our 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 Our 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