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PATENT
GRANTING CHARTER FOR THE COLLEGE OF GALWAY.
VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the
:Faith, and soforth, to all unto whom these presents
shall come, greeting. Whereas, by Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Ireland, bearing date at Dublin, the
thirtieth day of December. in the ninth year of our reign,
and made under the provisions of an Act passed in a
Session of Parliament holden in the eighth and ninth
year of our reign, entitled, "An Act to enable Her
Majesty to endow Hew Colleges for the Adyancement of
Learning in Ireland," WE willed, ordained, constituted,
declared, and appointed, that ill or near Galway,
in the province of Connaught, there should and
might be erected and established one perpetual College
for Students in Arts, Law, Physic, and other useful
learning, to be called by the name of " Queen's College,
Galway," and should consist of one President, one Vice­
President, and such number of Professors in Arts, Law,
and Physic, not exceeding twelve in number, as should
be appointed under and by virtue of the said recited Act:
And whereas, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal
of Ireland, bearing date the eleventh day of December,
in the thirteenth year of our reign, WE did increase the
number of Professors in said Queen's College, Galway,
and constitute Rules, Statutes, and Ordinances for the
government of the same.
Now, know ye, that WE have revoked and determined,
and do by these presents revoke and determine the said
recited Letters Paten t, and every clause, article, and thing
therein contained respectively:
And deeming it to be the duty of our Royal Office to
afford to all classes and denominations of our faithful
subjects, without any distinction of religious creed what-
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