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1885

BOROUGH OF WOKINGHAM

Charter of Incorporation.

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VICTORIA by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen,
Defender of the Faith, TO ALL TO WHOM these Presents shall come, GREETING.

WHEREAS by the Municipal Corporations Act 1882, it was enacted that if on the Petition to Us of
the Inhabitant Householders of any Town or Towns or District in England, or of any of those
Inhabitants, praying for the grant of a Charter of Incorporation, We, By the advice of our Privy
Council, should think fit by Charter to create such Town [Towns] or District or any part thereof
specified in the Charter with or without any adjoining place a Municipal Borough and to incorporate
the Inhabitants thereof, it should be lawful for Us by the Charter to extend to that Municipal Borough
and the Inhabitants thereof so incorporated the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Acts:

And it was further enacted that every Petition for a Charter under the said Act should be referred to a
Committee of the Lords of Our Privy Council (in the said Act called the Committee of Council), and
that one month at least before the Petition should be taken into consideration by the Committee of
Council, notice thereof, and of the time when it would be so taken into consideration, should be
published in the London Gazette and otherwise in such manner as the Committee should direct for the
purpose of making it known to all persons interested :

And it was further enacted that where We by a Charter should extend the Municipal Corporations
Acts to a Municipal Borough it should be lawful for Us by the Charter to do all or any of the
following things:

(a) To fix the number of Councillors and to fix the number and boundaries of the Wards (if
any), and to assign the number of Councillors to each Ward; and

(b) To fix the years, days, and times for the retirement of the first Aldermen and Councillors;
and

(c) To fix such days, times, and places, and nominate such persons to perform such duties
and make such other temporary modifications of the Municipal Corporations Acts as might
appear to Us to be necessary or proper for making those Acts applicable in the case of the
first constitution of a Municipal Borough:

And that the years, times, and places fixed by the Charter and the persons nominated therein to
perform any duties, should as regarded the Borough named in the Charter be respectively substituted
in the Municipal Corporations Acts for the years, days, times places, Officers, and persons therein
mentioned, and the persons so nominated should have the like powers and be subject to the like
obligations and penalties as the Officers and persons mentioned in those Acts for when they would be
respectively substituted:

AND that subject to the provisions of the Charter authorised thereby the Municipal Corporations Acts
should on the Charter coming into effect apply to the Municipal Borough to which they should be
extended by the Charter and where the first Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, or any of them should

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