THE BANK
or
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
- LONDON:
PHISTED BY RIXON & ARNOLD, 23, POULTRY.
"1864.SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER
‘Victoria, ty the Grate of God of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith
Toall to whom these presenta shall como Greeting Wuxzzas
by our Royal Charter of Incorporation bearing date a:
‘Westminster the Sst day of May in the Twenty-ffth year
of our, Reign We did grant constitute ordain and sppoint
that Thomas William Lockwood Mackean Eequire Martin -
“Ridley Smith Esquire and Eden Colvile Enquire together
with sock and so many other parsons snd bodies politic and
corporate as then were or should thereafter become Proprietors
of any share or shares of or im thpCapital for the'time being
of the Company thereby established should be one body
politic and corporate in name and in deed by the name of
“THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA” | And by
that name should and might sue and be sued implead and be
implesded in all Cotrts whether of Lew or Equity and
should have a common seal which might be by them varied
and changed at their pleasure Axp wx pm ruzazsr
Déczanx that the said Company wes xad should be established:
~for the purpose of establishing Banks of Issue and Deposit
in such cities towns and places within our colonies possemians
or settlements of British Columbia and Vancouver's Island
on the Continent of North Arierica ag might from time to
time be determined’ upon by the Directors for the time being
of the Company and for carrying on the general business of
z Banking in mianmer’sforesaid in such cities towns and places
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but subject nevertheless to the several provisions and re-
striction in gur said Royal Charter contained and to be
contained in the Deod of Settlement thereinafter directed to
‘be executed or to be contained in any supplemental deed oF
bye-law as therein mentioned. Amp we mip rurrHEE
neceane that the cspital of the ead Company should consist
of £250,000 sterling divided into 12,500 shares of £20 each
and such farther capital not’ exceeding £250,000 as the
Direciors for the time being should deem neceemry for the
porpose of the said undertaking. Asp wx pin TuEaxBT
pectamx that it should’ not be lawftl for the Company to
commence or carry on the suid business of Benking until it
should be made to spear to the etiafaction of the Commie
stoners for the time being of our Trosury that the whole of
* ‘the aforesaid expital of £250,000 had been subscribed for by
deed under hand and seal and that one-half (at'the least) of
yoch sum of £250,000 had been sctually paid up such satis-
faction to be evidenced by « certificate under the hands of
sppear to the estisfaction of the “Commissioners ‘of our _
to be certified as nforessid thet the whole of the
said cxpital of £250,000 bad been subecribed under band
and seal before the expiration of a period of eighteen calendar _
months to eommence and be computed from the day of the
date of our Royal Charter And unlem the whole of the
said capital of £250,000 chouli’ be actually paid up withip
the space of tw years to be retkuned fram the date of the
certificate to be granted as aforessid of the payment of one-
half of the suid capital of £260,000 (but so that such pay-
ment in fall should not be it\‘any ease delayed beyond the
period of: three years to be reckoned from the date of our
said Royal Charter) that it should be lrwfal for us our heirs
and'maceessors xt any time thereafter by any writing under
oar Great Seal to declare that oar said Reyal Charter should
be absolutely void. Axp w# Dip Taxes pimecr that“5°
within twelve‘ealendar months from the date of our said
‘Boyal Charter the persons who should have suberribed for at
least one-half of the said som of £250,000 should to the
satisfaction of the Commisioners of our Tressary to be °
certified as aforeanid enter into and execute a Deed of Settle- .
thent as therein thentioned. AND WE DID FURTHER ORDAIY
AND Dectaxx that -it should be lawfal for the said Company
st end from any city town or place in which they might
have established any Bank Branch or establishment under
or by virtue @f our exid Eoyal Charter (except as therein-
after mentioned) to make issue and circalste Notes or Bills
payable to bearer on demand and fo réisms the exme bat
the issue of such Notes and Bills within any of car afore-
said Colonies Possessions or Settlements was to be subject to
all and every or any Joeal laws for the time being in foree
for restraining or rogulating the ise therein of Notes or”
Bills and nothing in oursaid Royal Charter contained was to ba
cqnstreed or taken as anthorizing the Company to isme Notes
or Bills st or from any city town or place whereat or where-
from theissweaf Notesor Bills should be prokihited by anylocal
law for the time being in force Puoviogn ‘axwars thet all
* Notes or Bills which should be ismued in any’of oor sid
Colonies Possessions or Settlements should bear date at the
place of isvae and should be made payable st the ostabliah-
‘ment at whicH the same should have been iamed gnd in the
s current coin of our realm or other coin lawfully current in
the place where the sameshould be paid aad that all Notes and
the Company in sack Colony should be nisde payable not
‘only mt the establishment st and from which the same should
have been issued: but also at the principal establishment of
‘the Company in euch Colony. Psovipp areo that‘all Notes
and Bills issued by the Company should be chargeable with
the Stamp or other Daty (if any) paysble thereon by the
Isws of the place’ at and from which the same should be. 6.
ieacd. Axp 1 was by our mid Eoyal Charter provited
and WE DID THEREBY ORDAIN AXD DECLeRE that no establiah-
ment of the Company other ‘thaa‘and except the principel
Fequired to pay any Notes or Bill of the Company other
than and except such as should have been originally issued
at ind from each eatablishmanta and also that nb principal
evtablishmahts of the Company in any of the aid Colonies or
aforesaid at which the eame hed been issued aid in that case
péyment should be made at moh other establishment as.the
. by an indenture bearing date the 24th day of June 1862 and
“" misda between the séveral pensonjs whose nama and seals were
thereunto in the fourth Schednle thereto respectirely sub-
scribed and affixed of the first part and the anid Bank, of
British Columbia hereinafter called ‘The. Campmny af: the.
second part (being the Deed of Settlement of the Company.”
entered into and exscated in, pursuancé of the directions in.
that bebalf in our sxid Royal Charter contained and enrolled
in oor High Coort of Chancery). Every penon party of
+ the first part of the eaid/Deod of Sefilement covenanted with
- the Company and the Company covengnied with the several
‘persons parties thereto of the first part in manner in thé said
Deed of Settlement mentiqned,sad among other things that
the busines of the Company should be the bosiness of bank-
ing im the colonies of British Columbia and Vanovuver's
Inland or the Continent of Nocth America snd: all other
business usually transacted by benkers under the euperin-
replies tal eon of «pes ables in Lomi :
osoe
required fur such business it would he detrimental to the
said Bank axd.would not add to the security of our subjectsand others who.pave dealings with’ thé suid Bank thet any |
farther part of the esid original Capital of the sid Bank
should be called up until the increase in the business of the
eid Bank chall make the cling upsa farther’ part of the
"said Capital necessary or expedient. Arp wmamnis it has,
also been represented ‘into tus that the repited provision of
our said Royal Charter whereby it ii provided that all Notes
aad Bills a4 therein mentiohéd iemed et or from say ostab-
Bshment of the Company in any of our Colonies not being
the principal catablishment of the Company in such Colony
+ should be made payable not only wt tho edtablichment at or
from which the same shall have boon insted Bis alec st -the
principel establishment of the Compeny in euch Colony im-
poses upon the Company ity of kéeping
amount of specie at the i: 9 »
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and decept s supplpmental Charter altering the constitution
of the Company in the matters aforesnid and to sccept
euch Charter and that all and every the provisions of such
supplemental Charter shall bo- lawp of the
Axp woexxar the “Directors of thosaid Compaiy have
humbly besought us to giant to the Company » Supplemental
Charter containing wach powers and provisions as are here
‘inafter contained whith we gre minded to do under’the oon-
ditions and subject to the provisions and restrictions herein- ,
after contsined.. Now xsow ve that we as well upon the
prayer of the said Directors as of our special Grace certain
Imowledge and more motion by these presents do grant
ordain ahd declare es follows (thai. is to ssy) That it
shall be lawful for the Company to establish Bahks of
i: peccene Maan ae
Btitjah Consulate or Vioo-onmlate ia or may bo hereafter
established But subject nevertheless to the several pro-
visions and restrictions in the said Charter and Deed of
Settlement as hereinafter contained or to be contained in any
supplemental dend or bys law as in the exid Charter men-
tioned That the declaration in our enid Royal Charter con-
+ tained that unless tho whole of the said capital of £254,000
should be actually paid up within the space of two years to be
reckoned from the date of the certificate to be granted ah10
‘therein mentioned of the payment of one-half of the said
capital of £250,000 (but #o that such payment in full should
not be in any case delayed. beyond the period of three yoare
to bo reckoned from the date of our eid Royal Charter) it
should be lawfal for us oar heirs and successors at any time
thereafter by any writing under our Great Seal to declare
that our exid Royal Charter should. be absolutely void:bo axl
the samo is hereby repealed and nnnulled. os
‘Thst- the proviso in our suid Royal Charter contained ~
whereby it was provided that all Notes or Bills which should
be issued in any of our said Colonies Possessions or Settle-
ments shall bear date at tho place of isras and should be
made payablo st tho cstablishment from which tho’ eame
ahould havo boen issud and in the current coin of our
. Beakm or other coin lawfully durrent in the place where the
same should. bo paid and that all Notes and Billsisroed st or
from sny establishment of: the Company in any of oor
Colonics not being the principe] establishment of the Com-
pany in- such" Colony should be-made psyzble not oly st
the establishment at or from which the came should bave
boon issued but also at the principal establishment of the
Company in such Colony and aleo the proviso in our «aid
Boyal Charter contained that no catablichment of the Qom-
pany_other than and except the principal establishment
of the Company at the seat of Government in any of our
Colonies: or Settlements “SIORSERE ebould be required to
pay any Notes or Bills of the Company other than snd
except stich as should have been originally issued atand from.
such establishment and also that no principal establishments
of the Company in. any of the: said Colonies or Settlements
should be required to pay any Notes or Bills of the Company
which might have been isrued by the Company in sny other
Colony or it unless payment thereof thould have
been refused at dach principel establishment as aforesaid at
which the same were isrued and that in thst ease peyment
should be made at such other establishment as the Company -”i
should direct or in default of such direction then st any one
of the principal establishments of the Company where pay- ;
ment thereof/may bé denisinded be and the mie aro hereby”
* repealed and sxrialled and in Hien of such proviso we Do
HERESY ORDAIN AND Ducttw that all Notes or Bills’ pay-
able t» bearar on demand which shall be issued by the Com-
pany in shy of our Colotiiés Possessions or Settlements shal}
‘bear date at the place of issue and zhall be made payable st
the establishment from which the same shall-hare been
ined and at sqch other place or places (if any) aa on such
Notes-or Bilis ahiall be in that behalf expressed and in the
“current coin of our Realmor other coin legally current in
‘the place where the same shall be paid. Awp wx fo mexxzy
‘WILL axr''peciane that these presenta shall be deemed
supplementary to our said Charter oo already granted aa
aforesaid and that the said recited Charter and these presenta
shall be construed as one instrument and in all respecta aa
if the provisions hereby made hed been inserted in our anid
recited Charter. Anp ws for ourselves our heirs and sue-
cossors do grant and declare that this our Royal Charter or
“ the enrobment thereof shall_be in all things: valid and
effectual in the law according to the true intent and mean.
ing of the same and shall be recognised as valid and effectual
by‘ ail oar Courts and Judges in our United Kingdom of
Grent Britain and Ireland and elsewhere and bythe respective
for the time being of all cur Colonies Possessions
and all other officers persons and bodies
politic and vorporste whom it doth shall or may concern.
And thst the ame shall be taken construed and adj
in the most fsvourable and most bendficial sense for the beat
advantage of the said Company as well in our several Courts
af Record in car United Kingdom of Grest Britain and
Ireland 1 in our several Colonics Pomemions and Settle-
ments sforteaid or eltowhore. And notwithstanding any -
“hon-recital mis-recital uncertainty or imperfection. therein.
ASD LasTLY WE Do HEaxor nrarms axp xor™ell our12
~ offcers and servants whom it may'at any time concern
give fall force and effect to these our Letiers Patent -and to
be in all things aiding and amisting to tho said Company
and their succcssorn, Be.
In witness whereof we have cansed thess our Letters to
be mado Patent. Witness ourself at our Palace at West-
minster this 30th dey of August, 1864, in the twenty-cighth
year of our reign. :
‘By Her Majesty’s Command.
GARDEW.