Royal Warrant - Statute of the Order of the Garter Regarding Fees [1962-09-29]

Royal Warrant - Statute of the Order of the Garter Regarding Fees [1962-09-29]

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Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II making a Statute of the Order of the Garter requiring Knights of the Garter to pay a fee of £5 per year.

Queen Elizabeth II

1962-09-29

ELIZABETH R.

WHEREAS by a Statute of the Most Noble Order of the Garter bearing date the Twentieth day of October One thousand nine hundred and forty-four the sum of One hundred and fifty pounds was directed to be paid into an Account styled The Garter Fee Account by each Knight at his first coming in We taking into Our Royal Consideration the objections that have been advanced to Us as to the inadequacy of this sum are pleased by virtue of the power inherent in Us as Sovereign of the said Most Noble Order to ordain and direct that each Knight shall in addition pay into the said Account on the First day of January in each year after his coming in the sum of Five pounds and We do command that this Our Ordinance and Direction shall be taken and deemed to be part and parcel of the Statutes of Our said Most Noble Order.

GIVEN at Our Court at Balmoral, under Our Sign Manual and the Signet of Our said Order, this Twenty-ninth day of September 1962; in the Eleventh year of Our Reign.

By the Sovereign's Command,

SALISBURY,
Chancellor of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

Robert, 5th Marquess of Salisbury (Chancellor of the Order of the Garter)

Signet of the Garter (not shown)

This text is taken from a printed edition of the statutes and may not reflect the formatting of the original.