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king's college london act 1882 23 said at or near Somerset House should be removed and that the rights of the proprietors of shares to receive dividends should be extinguished and such other alterations made in the constitution of the College as are hereafter mentioned and that the Charter be annulled but that the College be continued incorporate And whereas the purposes of this Act cannot be effected without the authority of Parliament May it therefore please your majesty That it may be enacted nd be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows that is to say Short Title This Act may be cited as King's College London Act 1882 and it shall come into operation on the passing thereof Charter annulled College to continue incorporated The said Charter is hereby annulled but the College shall remain incorporated by the name and title of King's College London" as hereinafter provided and all things heretofore done under the Charter shall remain as valid as if this Act had not been passed and all officers of the College shall retain their offices on the same terms and conditions as they now hold the same and all books and documents which would have been evidence for or against the College under the Charter shall be admitted as evidence hereafter and all debts and liabilities deeds and causes of action shall attach apply and subsist to against and in favour of the College after this Act as they did at the passing thereof And all bye-laws rules and orders now in force shall so remain except 60 far as they are varied by this Act or shall be hereafter varied under the powers thereof