at they the said John
Richardson, James Reid, John Strachan, and James Dunlop, or the
survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs, executors, or curators of
such survivor, from and immediately after the said expiration of the
said space of ten years do and shall pay the said sum of ten thousand
pounds, with all and every the interest accrued thereon, to the said
Francis Desrivieres, if then living, to and for his use and benefit, or
if dead, then to his legal heirs then living, to and for their use and
benefit."

APPENDIX B

THE CHARTER OF MCGILL COLLEGE

Victoria, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith.

To all whom these presents shall come,

_Greeting:_

Whereas his late Majesty George the Fourth was graciously
pleased, by Letters Patent bearing date at Westminster, on
the Thirty-first day of March, in the Second year of his Reign,
to establish at Burnside, near the City of Montreal in the Province
of Lower Canada, an University, the first College of which,
by the said Charter, is called "McGill College," which Charter is
in the following words:

"George the Fourth, by the Grace of GOD, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.

"To all to whom these presents shall come,

"_Greeting:_

"Whereas the Honourable James McGill, late of the City of Montreal
in the Province of Lower Canada, now deceased, by his last Will and
Testament, bearing date at Montreal the Eighth day of January, in
the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and eleven, did
give and bequeath a certain tract of Land near the said City of
Montreal, with the dwelling-house and other buildings thereon
erected, to Trustees, in trust, to convey and assure the same to
the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, established
by virtue of an Act of the Provincial Parliament of Lower Canada,
made and passed in the Forty-first year of the Reign of his late
Majesty, intituled 'An Act for the Establishment of Free Schools
and the Advancement of Learning in the said Province,' upon
condition that the said Institution should, within ten years from
the decease of the said James McGill, erect and establish or cause
to be erected and established upon the said land, an University or
College for the