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he named in the Charter should apply as if they were elected under the Municipal Corporations Acts,
and where they should not be so named should apply to their first election:

AND WHEREAS certain Inhabitant Householders of the Local Government District of Wokingham
in the County of Berks did in the month of December One thousand eight hundred and eighty three,
petition Us for the grant of a Charter of Incorporation:

AND WHEREAS such petition was referred to a Committee of Our Privy Council and one month at
least before the same was taken into consideration by the said Committee, notice thereof and of the
time when the same was so to be taken into consideration was duly published in the London Gazette
and otherwise as directed by the Committee:

AND WHEREAS Our Privy Council have recommended Us to grant this Charter of Incorporation:

WE THEREFORE as well by virtue of our Royal Prerogative as in pursuance of and in accordance
with the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 or any other Act or Acts and of all other powers and
authorities enabling Us in this behalf, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, do hereby grant
order and declare as follows :

(1) So much of the Parish of Wokingham as is within the limits set forth in the first Schedule
to these Presents (being the limits of the existing Local Government District of Wokingham),
is hereby created a Municipal Borough by the name of the "Borough of Wokingham".

(2) The inhabitants of the said District within the limits set forth in the First Schedule to
these presents, and their Successors, shall be and are hereby declared to be one Body
Politic and corporate by the name of the MAYOR, ALDERMEN, and BUBGESSES of the
BOROUGH of WOKINGHAM with perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and may
assume Armorial Bearings ( which shall be duly enrolled in the Herald’s College ), and may
take and hold [any Lands tenements and hereditaments which may be vested in them by any
Scheme made under Part XI of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 and] such other lands
tenements and hereditaments as well without as within the Borough as may be necessary for
the site of the buildings and premises required for the official purposes of the Corporation and
other the purposes of the Municipal Corporations Acts, not exceeding in value the amount of
Five hundred pounds by the year.

(3) The Mayor, Alderman, and Burgesses of the said Borough shall have the powers,
authorities, immunities, and privileges usually vested by law in the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of a Municipal Borough, and the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Acts
shall extend to the said Borough and the inhabitants thereof incorporated by this Charter.

(4) The number of the Councillors of the Borough shall be twelve.

(5) For the purpose of making the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, applicable in the case of
the first constitution of the Borough We do hereby so far only as regards the first Burgess
List, first Burgess Roll, and first election of Councillors Mayor, Aldermen Auditors,
Assessors, Town Clerk and Treasurer, fix and order as follows :

(A) The Town Hall in the Town of Wokingham shall be the place at which any list
notice, or document required to be affixed on or near the outer Door of the Town
Hall is to be affixed ; and
(B) Both in relation to the matters aforesaid, and also in relation to any such election
as aforesaid which it may be necessary to hold before a valid election can be held
under the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, Henry Trower Roberts of Wokingham,
solicitor or in case of his death, inability, refusal, or default, John Frederick Sergeant
of Wokingham, solicitor, shall perform the duties of the Town Clerk ; and William

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