answer, in any manner whatsoever.

"And we do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs, and Successors,
will, ordain, and grant that the Governors of the said College, or
the major part of them, shall have power and authority to frame and
make statutes, rules and ordinances, touching and concerning the
good Government of the said College, the performance of Divine
Service therein, the studies, lectures, exercises, and degrees in
Arts and Faculties, and all matters regarding the same, the
election, qualification, and residence of the Principal,
Professors, Fellows, and Scholars; the salaries, stipend and
provisions for the Principal, Professors, Fellows, Scholars, and
Officers of the said College; and touching and concerning any other
matter or thing which to them shall seem good, fit, useful, and
agreeable to this Our Charter: provided that no such statutes,
rules and ordinances shall have any force or effect until allowed
and confirmed by Us, Our Heirs or Successors; and also, from time
to time, to revoke, augment or alter the same as to them or the
major part of them shall seem expedient, subject always to Our
allowance and confirmation as aforesaid, provided that the said
statutes, rules, and ordinances, or any of them, shall not be
repugnant to the laws and statutes of this Our Realm, and of Our
said Province of Lower Canada; and We do hereby for Us, Our Heirs,
and Successors, charge and command that the statutes, rules and
ordinances aforesaid, subject to the said provisions, shall be
strictly and inviolably observed, kept, and performed, so long as
they shall respectively remain in force and effect, under the
penalties to be thereby or therein inflicted or contained. And we
do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, will, ordain
and appoint, that the Members of the Royal Institution aforesaid,
for the time being, shall be Visitors of the said College. And we
do further will, ordain, and grant, that the said College shall be
deemed and taken to be an University, and that the Students in the
said College shall have liberty and faculty of taking the degrees
of Bachelor, Master and Doctor, in the several Arts and Faculties,
at the appointed times, and shall have liberty within themselves,
of performing Scholastic Exercises, for the co