presents, for ever hereafter be and be called one body politic and corporate, for the purposes and objects aforesaid, in deed and in law, by the name and style of "The Canterbury Association for Founding a Settlement in New Zealand." By which name they shall have perpetual succession, and a common seal, with full powers and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name and style to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in every Court of us, our heirs and successors, as fully and amply as any other of our subjects may or can do, and be for ever able and capable in the law to purchase, receive, possess, and enjoy to them and their successors, any goods and chatties whatsoever and wheresoever, and also be able and capable in the law, notwithstanding the statutes of mortmain, to take, purchase, possess, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors, any messuages, or tenements of any tenure, with the appurtenances, situate in any part or parts in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, requisite to be occupied or used for transacting or carrying on the business of the said Association (not exceeding the net annual value of £2,000, such net annual value to be calculated and ascertained at the period taking, purchasing or acquiring the same,) and any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in our said colony of New Zealand or its dependences, and also to sell, alienate, mortgage, charge, or otherwise dispose of the property, as well real as personal, of the said body politic and corporate as they shall think proper; and also to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate for the purposes and objects aforesaid, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as any other of our subjects may or can do in their respective concerns; and we do hereby grant our especial licence and authority unto all and every persons and person bodies politic and corporate (otherwise competent), to grant, sell, alien, assign, convey, or devise in mortmain, unto and to the use of the said Association and their successors, any such messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments as aforesaid; And our will and pleasure is, and we further grant and declare, that there shall be a general meeting of the members of the said body politic and corporate, to be held from time to time as hereinafter mentioned; and that there shall always be a committee of management, formed of and chosen from the members of the said body politic and corporate as hereinafter also mentioned: And we do hereby further will, grant, and declare, that it shall be lawful for the members of the said body politic and corporate hereby established, and they are hereby required to hold a general meeting once in every year, or oftener, for the purpose of making such bye-laws, rules, orders, regulations, and resolutions, as may be necessary or expedient concerning the government of the said body politic and corporate, and the admission of members thereof, and the management of the estates, goods, monies and business thereof, and the election or appointment of members of the committee of management, and the times and place of meeting of the said committee, and the nomination and appointment, of agents (with or without power of delegation), and of officers, clerks, and servants of the said body politic and corporate, and concerning all or any other matters or things relating to the said body politic or corporate, or the property or affairs thereof; and that such general meetings may from time to time alter, vary, or revoke such bye-laws, rules, orders, regulations, and resolutions, and make such new or other bye-laws, rules, orders, regulations, and resolutions concerning the premises, as may be necessary or expedient, so that no such bye-laws, rule, order, regulation, or resolution, as aforesaid be repugnant to this our charter, or to the laws and statutes of our realm: And we do further will and declare, that the first general meeting shall take place within six calendar months from the date of this our Charter; and that the present regulations of the said Association, so far as they are consistent with these presents shall continue in force until the same shall be altered by a general meeting; And our will and pleasure is, that at all general meetings of the said body politic and corporate, the majority of the members present, all of whom shall have a right to vote thereat, shall decide upon the matters brought forward at such meeting, the person presiding thereat having in case of an equality of votes, a second or casting vote: And we further will, grant and declare, that the committee of management shall have the management and administration of the property, as well real as personal, of the said body politic and corporate, and the execution of the powers and authorities thereof and generally the direction and conduct