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THE draft of the Charter for the incorporaion government of the Imperial College of Science and Technology to be established at South Kensington has now been laid on the table on the House of Commons. It provides for tjf appointment of a governing body which, when complete. will consist of forty members, each mamber holding office for a period of four years The governing body will be constitute in accordance with the recommendations of departmental Committee which reported in January 1906. When complete, it will consist of forty years, of whom six will be appointed by the Crownn, four by the President of the Board of Education, five each by the University of London, the London County Council, and the City and Guilds of London Institute, two by the Royal Commissioners for the 1851 Exhibition, one by the Royal Society, four by the professorial staff of the college, and eight by various technical societies, viz. one each by the Institutions of Civil Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Electrical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute, the Institution of Naval Architects, the Society of Chemical Industry, the Institution of Mining Engineers, and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. The President of the Board of Education will summon the first meeting of the governing body, which will be deemed to be constituted on the occasion of that meeting. The governing body will meet at least four times a. year, and will publish a report of its proceedings annually. It will be permitted to delegate powers to an executive committee and to other committees, provision being made for the possible inclusion on any of. these committees, except the executive committee, of non-members of the governing body. The governing body will in this way be able to secure the advice of independent experts, including persons with practical experience of industrial requirements. Advisory boards may also be appointed with the same object in view.
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Imperial College of Science and Technology . Nature 76, 56–57 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076056a0
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