ABSTRACT

EagllabwtllDan'. Review,] Febru&r1 15t11, 1178. Degreu for Women. 57

The clauses in the Supplemental Charter now to be petitioned for, which will afiect women, are the following:

.. 2. AND WHEREAS by our Letters Patent, under tlie Great Seal of said United Kingdom, bearing date at VV' estminster, the twenty-seventh day of August in the thirty first year of our reign (and which were duly accepted by the Convocation of the said University, with the consent of the Senate, as a Supplemental Charter), we did, amongst other things, will, grant, and ordain that the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows should have power to cause to be held from time to time, as they shall deem expedient, a special Examination of Women being Candidates for such Certificates of Proficiency as therein mentioned, and after every such Examination to grant to such Female Candidates, in such mode, and on compliance by such Candidates with such conditions as the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows of the said University might determine, such certificates of proficiency as the said Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows should from time to time by regulations made in that behalf detel'mine:

&By Degrees or Certificates of Proficiency which they may have power to grant to men:

"5. Now KNow Ye, That We do, in virtue of our PI'arogative Roya~ and of our special grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, by these presents, for Us, our heirs and successors, will, grant, and ordain, that all the powers and provisions relating to the granting of Degrees and Certificates of Proficiency contained in our said Letters Patent of the sixth day of January, in the twenty-eixth year of our reign, shall henceforth be read and construed as applying to Women as "Well as to Men, and that except as hereinafter mentioned, all the parts of our satne Letters Patent shall be read and construed as if the extended powers hereby conferred were contained in our same Letters Patent:

"6. AND FURTHER KNOW YE, that 'Ve do in like manner will and ordain that, notwithstanding anything in our said Letters Patent of the sixth day of January, in the twenty-sixth year of our reign, contained to the contrary, no Female Graduate of the said University shall be a member of the Convocation of the said University, unle88 and until such Convocation shall have passed a resolution that Female Graduates be admitted to Convocation."