"YOUR MAJESTY having been
pleased, by Your Order of the 21st day of February, 1935, to refer unto this Committee
the humble Petition of Sir Thomas Guthrie Russell, President of the Institution
of Engineers (India) and others praying for the grant of a Charter of Incorporation
to the said Institution:
"THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE,
in obedience to Your Majesty's said Order of Reference, have taken the said Petition
into consideration, and do this day agree humbly to report, as their opinion, to
Your Majesty, that a Charter may be granted by Your Majesty in terms of the Draft
hereunto annexed."
HIS MAJESTY, having taken
into consideration the said Report, and the Draft Charter accompanying it, was pleased,
by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, as
it is hereby ordered, that the Most Honourable the Marquess of Zetland, one of His
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do cause a Warrant to be prepared for
His Majesty's Royal Signature, for passing under the Great Seal a Charter in conformity
with the said Draft, which is hereunto annexed.
ECE Leadbitter
George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland and the British
Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...............
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