II. ACT OF INCORPORATION. ACT NO. II. OF 1857. Passed on the 24th January, 1857. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND INCORPORATE AN UNIVERSITY AT CALCUTTA. Preamble. WHEREAS, for the better encouragement of Her Majesty's subjects of all classes and denominations within the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal and other parts of India in the pursuit of a regular and liberal course of education, it has been determined to establish an University at Calcutta, for the purpose of ascertaining by means of examination, the persons who have acquired proficiency in different branches of Literature, Science and Art, and of rewarding them by Academical Degrees, as evidence of their respective attainments, and marks of honor proportioned thereunto; and whereas, for effectuating the purposes aforesaid, it is expedient that T such University should be incorporated: It is enacted as follows: (that is to say)— Incorporation. I. The following persons, namely The Right Honorable CHARLES JOHN VISCOUNT Can NING, Governor-General of India, The Honorable JOHN RUSSEL COLVIN, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces, The Honorable FREDERICK JAMES HALLIDAY, The Honorable Sir JAMES WILLIAM COLVILE, Knight, The Right Reverend DANIEL WILSON, The Honorable GEORGE ANSON, General, The Honorable JOSEPH ALEXANDER DORIN, The Honorable JOHN Low, Major-General, The Honorable JOHN PETER GRANT, The Honorable BARNES PEACOCK, ACT OF INCORPORATION. CHARLES ALLEN, Esquire, Member of the Legislative Council of India, HENRY RICKETTS, Esquire, Provisional Member of the Supreme Council of India, CHARLES BINNY TREVOR, Esquire, Prince GHOLAM MUHAMMUD, WILLIAM RITCHIE, Esquire, CECIL BEADON, Esquire, Colonel HENRY GOODWYN, of the Bengal Engineers, WILLIAM GORDON YOUNG, Esquire, Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM ERSKINE BAKER, Lieutenant-Colonel ANDREW SCOTT WAUGH, KENNETH MACKINNON, Esquire, HODGSON PRATT, Esquire, ཟ་ HENRY WALKER, Esquire, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical THOMAS THOMSON, Esquire, Doctor in Medicine, Superintendent of the Botanical Garden at Calcutta, FREDERICK JOHN MOUAT, Esquire, Doctor in Medicine, and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lieutenant WILLIAM NASSAU LEES, The Reverend WILLIAM KAY, Doctor of Divinity, Principal of Bishop's College, The Reverend ALEXANDER Duff, THOMAS OLDHAM, Esquire, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, HENRY WOODROW, Esquire, Inspector of Schools in Bengal, LEONIDAS CLINT, Esquire, Principal of the Presidency College, PROSONNO COOMAR TAGORE, Clerk, Assistant of the Legislative Council of India, RAMAPERSHAD ROY, Government Pleader in the Sudder Court of Bengal, Master of Arts, |