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            <text>&lt;div style="line-height:1.8;max-width:700px;margin:auto;"&gt;&lt;!-- Page 1 --&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:center;margin-top:2em;"&gt;FOR YOUR MAJESTY'S SIGNATURE&lt;br /&gt;ONE WARRANT&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;APPOINTING LEROY CRONIN&lt;br /&gt;AT PRESENT GARDINER CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW&lt;br /&gt;TO BE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:center;margin-top:2em;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Elizabeth R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, to all whom these Presents do or may concern.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;GREETING!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;FORASMUCH as We taking into Our Royal Consideration that the Office and Place of Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow which has been vacant since the thirtieth day of September 2010 and is at Our Gift and Disposal and We being well informed of the abilities and good endowments of Our Trusty and Well-beloved Professor Leroy Cronin, at present Gardiner Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow for the discharge of the duties of the said Office:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top:4em;text-align:right;"&gt;NOW/&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Professor Leroy Cronin to be Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:center;margin-top:2em;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Elizabeth R&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;NOW BE IT KNOWN that We have nominated, presented, constituted and appointed like as We do by these Presents nominate, present, constitute and appoint the said Leroy Cronin to be Regius Professor of Chemistry at the said University of Glasgow:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;GIVING AND GRANTING unto him the said Office during Our pleasure and subject to the provisions of section twelve, paragraph five of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, and of section six, paragraph six of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1889, with all Rights and Privileges belonging thereto and requiring hereby the University Court of the said University and the Principal and the Professors and Masters thereof, to admit and receive him to the peaceable exercise and possession of the said Office in the usual form:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;FURTHER GIVING, granting and dispensing to him during his incumbency therein the emoluments of the said Professorship from and after such dates as may be fixed by the University Court, but with&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="margin-top:4em;text-align:right;"&gt;/and&lt;/div&gt;
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and under the condition and declaration that the said Professor shall perform the duties of her Office at such times and in such manner as have been or may be appointed by the constituted authorities for the time being:
&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;PROVIDED ALWAYS as it is hereby provided and declared that this nomination and appointment to the said Professorship is and shall be subject to all the provisions of any Acts of Parliament or of any Orders in Council which have been or may be passed for regulating the government and endowment of the Universities of Scotland, in so far as they are applicable to the University of Glasgow, and of any Ordinances which have been or may be made or resolutions which have been or may be passed with regard to the retirement of Professors in the University of Glasgow:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent:2em;"&gt;AND PROVIDED ALSO that the said Professor shall not be entitled to claim any compensation in the event of any alteration that may be made hereafter in the duties, status or emoluments of the said Office.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:left;"&gt;Given at Our Court at &lt;em&gt;Buckingham Palace&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the &lt;em&gt;twenty-first&lt;/em&gt; day of &lt;em&gt;May&lt;/em&gt; 2013&lt;br /&gt;in the sixty-second year of Our Reign.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;BY HER MAJESTY'S COMMAND&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;(Sgd.) &lt;em&gt;Alex Salmond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div style="text-align:left;font-style:italic;"&gt;CERTIFIED A TRUE COPY&lt;br /&gt;Gordon Thomson&lt;br /&gt;SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT EMPLOYABILITY,&lt;br /&gt;SKILLS AND LIFELONG LEARNING DIRECTORATE
&lt;div style="text-align:center;margin-top:0.5em;"&gt;10 June 2013&lt;/div&gt;
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