Word: null
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...warranto" was entered against the company in the Court of the King's Bench. A last appeal to Parliament was laid on the table by order of the king. The case of "quo warranto" was argued, and on June 16, 1624, the Chief Justice declared the Company's Charter null and void. Ferrar, before surrendering the records of the company had copies of them made, which are now in the possession of the Unsted States government. The originals were probably destroyed by the Privy Council...
...societies of being a sure reward for faithful and persevering work. It will be no longer be possible to conquer one's way into the fraternity. The proportion of unsuitable men chosen under the regulation of rank would undoubtedly be small at any rate and their effect would be null in the society, which even now includes in its graduate body more than one man, chosen under more liberal rules than those in vogue last year, who has failed to set the world on fire. Would it not therefore have been almost as safe and much wiser to adhere...