aged in the
exercise of the like liberality for promoting the same pious design;
it shall be the duty of the _President_ of said _Dartmouth College_
and of his successors, annually or as often as he shall be thereunto
desired or requested, to transmit to the Right Hon., Hon. and worthy
Gentlemen of the trust in _England_ before mentioned, a faithful
account of the improvements and disbursements of the several sums he
shall receive from the donations and bequests made in _England_
through the hands of the said _Trustees_, and also advise them of the
general plans laid and prospects exhibited, as well as a faithful
account of all remarkable occurrences, in order if they shall think
expedient that they may be published. And this to continue so long as
they shall perpetuate their board of Trust, and there shall be any of
the _Indian_ natives remaining to be proper objects of that charity.
And lastly, our express will and pleasure is, and We do by these
presents for us our heirs and successors, give and grant unto the said
_Trustees_ of _Dartmouth College_ and to their successors forever,
that these our letters patent or the enrolment thereof in the
Secretary's office of our province of _New Hampshire_ aforesaid, shall
be good and effectual in law to all intents and purposes against us
our heirs and successors, without any other license, grant or
confirmation from us our heirs and successors hereafter by the said
_Trustees_ to be had and obtained, notwithstanding the not writing or
misrecital, not naming or misnaming the aforesaid offices, franchises,
privileges, immunities, or other the premises or any of them, and
notwithstanding a writ of _ad quod damnum_ hath not issued forth to
enquire of the premises or any of them before the ensealing hereof,
any statute, act, ordinance or proviso, or any other matter or thing
to the contrary notwithstanding.
To have and to hold, all and singular the privileges, advantages,
liberties, immunities, and all other the premises herein and hereby
granted and given, or which are meant, mentioned, or intended to be
herein and hereby given and granted unto them the said _Trustees_ of
_Dartmouth College_ and to their successors forever.
* * * * *
In Testimony whereof We have caused these our letters to be made
_patent_, and the public seal of our said province of _New Hampshire_
to be hereunto affixed.
Witness our trusty and well beloved John Wentworth,
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