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Given under the Common Seal of the Royal Colonial Institute this twentieth day of May, 1897.

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Sir, I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of to-day's date, enclosing an address of congratulation to the Queen on the attainment of the Sixtieth Year of Her Reign, and to state that the same shall be laid before Her Majesty, after which a further communication will be addressed to you.

I am, sir, Your obedient servant,
KENELM E. DIGBY.

The Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute.

ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.-REPLY.

Secretary of State,

Home Department, Whitehall:

May 29, 1897.

Sir, I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the Council and Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute on the occasion of Her Majesty attaining the sixtieth year of her reign, and I have to inform you that Her Majesty was pleased to receive the same very graciously.

I have, &c.

J. S. O'Halloran, Esq.,

Secretary to the Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue.

M. W. RIDLEY.

ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN.

The following loyal Address to Her Majesty the Queen has been signed by the Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute residing in the Transvaal whose names are attached.

To Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, &c.

The Loyal Address of the undersigned British subjects, Fellows

of the Royal Colonial Institute, resident in the South African Republic (Transvaal), humbly sheweth :--

That the Fellows signing this Address desire to express their devotion to your Majesty's person and throne, and to tender to your Majesty their loyal and hearty congratulations on the Sixtieth Anniversary of your Majesty's accession, and of the commencement of a reign unparalleled in the British annals, not alone for its duration, but for its wealth of historic achievements, and for the worldwide expansion of the Empire which has signalised it.

The Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute desire further to record their sense of admiration for the spirit of purity which has characterised your Majesty's life and Court, the high sense of justice and equity which has animated the counsels of Parliament and guided the administration of justice throughout the Empire.

An appreciation of your Majesty's illustrious reign, and the personal respect and affection in which your Majesty is held, are cherished in the hearts, as they are preserved in the annals and poetry, of the people over whom your Majesty has exercised the prerogatives of Royal Power over a period in time, an area in space of land, and over numbers of human beings of all shades and colour, class and religion, unprecedented in the history of the world.

May your Majesty live long to contemplate and enjoy the results of your beneficent rule, and may the Royal Power long be exercised by your Majesty's children and their children's children so long as they imitate and follow your Majesty's virtuous, wise, and humane example.

In this distant part of South Africa, living under certain anomalous conditions, the Fellows presenting this humble Address feel themselves specially encouraged by the sense of being attached to the Empire governed by our beloved Empress-Queen.

Your Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects:

H. B. Pretoria, Henry S. Caldecott, T. J. Britten, J. G. Maynard, Jno. G. Auret, Charles Scott, C. Rissik, Samuel Thomson, A. Langebrink, F. W. Diamond, F. W. Bompas, Abe Bailey, Charles F. B. Wollaston, John M. Pierce, Wm. Goddard, J. H. Leslie, J. W. Matthews, M.D., J. Emrys Evans, E. S. Norrie, Robt. E. Hall, W. H. Longden, H. Fraser Watson, Louis L. Playford, F. W. Forbes, Naph. H. Cohen, Theodore Reunert, Chas. Aburrow, James Morton, R. W. E. Hawthorn, L. B. Chesterton, R. Pizzighelli, John H. Parker, Thos. Perks, W. Coulson Tregarthen, James M. Ross, Edw. H. Croghan, W. C. Thomson, J. Donald, R. Lewis Cousens, R. Goldmann, C. S. Goldmann, Frank C. Dumat, Chas. F. B.

Wayland, Wm. Hosken, Edward Hancock, Geo. Bruce, Wm. Palfrey, J. A. Awdry, F. J. Newnham, J. Bottomley, A. R. Goldring, J. E. McNess, H. Stone, Herbert Molyneux, W. Gwynne Evans, F. Douglas McMillan, W. K. Tucker, H. G. Vander Hoven, W. Ross, Horace Liddle, C. F. Wienand, Septimus Edkins, W. H. Stymest, Henry Hains, J. Harrower, Frank Emley, A. Percy Field, Edward F. Simpson, R. Cottle Green, J. W. Mogg, W. A. Schappart, John R. Jones, E. F. Bourke, J. R. Dyer, Edward Rooth, G. C. Fitzpatrick, Denis Doyle, J. Waldie Peirson, G. F. Wills, J. E. Green, Herman Myers, Alfred Dowling, Thomas W. G. Moir, W. T. Graham (Hon. Corresponding Secretary, Royal Colonial Institute).

Johannesburg: June, 1897.

GRANT

UNTO THE

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE

OF

Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation,

DATED 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1882.

Uictoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen Defender of the Faith, Empress of India, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting.

Whereas His ROYAL HIGHNESS ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., and HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER, K.P., have by their Petition humbly represented to Us that they are respectively the President and Chairman of the Council of a Society established in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and called by Our Royal Authority the

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Royal Colonial Institute, the objects of which Society are in various ways, and in particular by means of a place of Meeting, Library and Museum, and by reading papers, holding discussions, and undertaking scientific and other inquiries, as in the said Petition mentioned, to promote the increase and diffusion of knowledge respecting as well Our Colonies, Dependencies and Possessions, as Our Indian Empire, and the preservation of a permanent union between the Mother Country and the various parts of the British Empire, and that it would enable the said objects to be more effectually attained, and would be for the public advantage if We granted to His Royal Highness ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU, DUKE OF MANCHESTER, K.P., and the other Fellows of the said Society, Our Royal Charter of Incorporation.

And whereas it has been represented to Us that the said Society has, since its establishment, sedulously pursued the objects for which it was founded by collecting and diffusing information; by publishing a Journal of Transactions; by collecting a Library of Works relating to the British Colonies, Dependencies and Possessions, and to India; by forming a Museum of Colonial and Indian productions and manufactures, and by undertaking from time to time scientific, literary, statistical, and other inquiries relating to Colonial and Indian Matters, and publishing the results thereof.

Now know ye that We, being desirous of encouraging a design so laudable and salutary, of Our especial

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