of an equality of votes, the officer present at such meeting, whose
office is first described in order in these presents, shall have a
double and easting vote: provided always, that the persons by whom
such elections shall be made shall notify the same respectfully to
Us, Our Heirs or Successors, through one of Our or Their principal
Secretaries of State, by the first opportunity, and in case that
WE, Our Heirs or Successors, shall disapprove of any person so
elected, and shall cause such disapprobation to be notified to him
under the Royal signet and sign manual, or through one of the
principal Secretaries of State, the person so elected as aforesaid
shall immediately, upon such notification, cease to hold the office
of Principal or Professor to which he shall have been elected as
aforesaid, and the said Governors shall thereupon proceed to the
election of another person to fill the office of such Principal or
Professor respectively, and so, from time to time, as often as the
case shall happen.
"And we do by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors,
will, ordain and grant, that the said Governors, Principal and
Fellows, and their Successors, forever shall be one distinct and
separate body politic and corporate in deed and in word, by the
name and style of 'The Governors, Principal and Fellows of McGill
College, at Montreal, in the said Province of Lower Canada,' and
that by the same name they shall have perpetual succession, and a
common seal, and that they and their successors shall, from time to
time, have full power to break, alter, make new, or change such
common seal at their will and pleasure, and as shall be found
expedient, and that by the same name the said Governors, Principal
and Fellows, and their successors, from time to time, and at all
times hereafter, shall be a body politic and corporate, in deed and
in law, and be able and capable to have, take, receive, purchase,
acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and retain.