However, he succeeded in 1812 in receiving a charter very much modified in form, for the Chartered Gas Light and Coke Co.
The provisions of this Bank of the United States differed in several particulars from that chartered in 1790.
That company was chartered for commercial purposes, and its rule had no other than a pecuniary aim.
When he went to England to attend the coronation, he chartered a ship, took his retinue with him and carried Ganges water enough to last until his return.
Holland then chartered the East India Trading Company and Amsterdam became the spice center from which all Europe drew its supplies.
When I came to Tarentum, I sailed in the galley which I had chartered from certain sea-robbers.
The steamer State of Texas was chartered and loaded with food, medicines and hospital supplies, and headquarters were established at Key West.
Then a Spanish chartered company was given a monopoly of the trade of the islands.
As the Virginius had displayed the American colors and was chartered and cleared as an American vessel, she had a prima facie claim to protection as such, until her right should be disproved.
In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was chartered at the instigation of John Winthrop as a Puritan refuge.
To avoid the monopolistic confines of chartered towns, many entrepreneurs set up new industries in Birmingham or Manchester, which grew enormously.
By 1711, government finances had become so chaotic that the Chancellor of the Exchequer sought to re-establish public credit by means of a chartered commercial company, the shares of which were offered in substitution for government stock.
Georgia waschartered in 1733 on request of James Oglethorpe, who became its first governor, as a refuge for debtors and the poor and needy.
The company of painters was chartered with a provision prohibiting painting by persons not apprenticed for seven years.
The greatest joint-stock company was East India Company, chartered in 1600 to trade there in competition with the Dutch East India Company.
The growing town of Birmingham was not a chartered borough, so never was encumbered with guild regulations.
There were windows of glass and a guild of glaziers was chartered by the King.
They made and enforced trading rules, chartered fleets, and organized armed convoys when the seas were unsafe and coordinated policies with Henry VII.
The stocking frame-knitters guild, which had been chartered in 1663, went on strike to protest the use of workhouse children as an abuse of apprenticeship which lowered their wages.
At night the broad verandah of the Hotel Rupert is transformed into a stage for a performance of the topeng or national drama, chartered by an American guest.
A dilapidated carriage is chartered with difficulty, as only three vehicles belong to the island, and the driver evidently expects his skeleton steed to collapse at any pace quicker than a walk.
When we arrived there it was raining, and the excursionists chartered the boat for a run back to Victory, about ten miles, and they were dancing all the time.
What his judgment would have been had one of the craft been chartered to carry a Sunday school picnic from St. Louis to St. Paul, will never be known.
The "City of Quincy" was a New Orleans packet, that had been chartered to take an excursion the length of the river.
There is also a large paper currency in the form of notes issued by the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the National Bank of China, Limited.
He chartered La Belgique two days since for a similar trip, but surely he'll have plenty of room to spare.
I've chartered a tramp to be waiting at Loanga by November.
Of the steamerschartered the great majority steamed 12 or 13 knots.
Availing ourselves of a schooner, chartered to carry Major Miller and two companies of the Second Infantry from San Francisco to Stockton, we got up to our destination at little cost.
Folsom chartered the bark La Lambayecana, owned and navigated by Henry D.
No; it hath not entered into the heart of a still sinful man what God hath chartered to them whom He loves.
Do that as you would be a forgiven and full-chartered soul.
Just before we touched at the Gabun River, two tramp steamers, chartered by Americans, carried off a full cargo of this mahogany to the States.
So the "innocent child" seated himself between the consul and the chartered trader, and they patted his fat calves and red curls and took his minute hands in their tanned fists, eying him hungrily, like two cannibals.
Some years ago, during a boundary dispute between the Portuguese and the Chartered Company, there was a clash between the Portuguese soldiers and the British South African police.
The history of the early days of chartered companies in Africa, notoriously those of the Congo, Northern Nigeria, Rhodesia, and German Central Africa does not make pleasant reading.
The captain was called aboard the submarine, whence his papers were examined and found to show that the ship was chartered by an American firm January 5.
On the same day the Samland of the Atlantic Transport Line and the Strathlay, chartered by the Fabre Line, survived attempts to destroy them by fire bombs, and on July 15 "Pearce" threatened in another letter to destroy the Rochambeau.
Immediately that the opening of the port of Simoda to foreign trade was announced officially, an English vessel was chartered to carry it there.
Evacuation by the Chinese had been actually decided upon, and the steamer Kowshing was chartered for the purpose of bringing back the troops.
A few days after her arrival in London, the vessel was chartered as a troop-ship by the Portuguese government.
Chartered in 1799, with a monopoly of the fur trade of Russian America.
Chartered by Louis XIV, 1664, following the cancellation of the charter of the Company of New France.
Organized by David Kirke, and chartered by Charles I, to exploit the fur trade of the St. Lawrence.
Chartered in 1849 as the Toronto, Sarnia, and Lake Huron Railway.
After several times swinging around the circle in this country, the Wild West crossed the ocean in a steamship chartered to carry the vast aggregation, and landed upon the shores of England.
The glands will be provided free, and a special ship will also be charteredfor the passage out to South Africa, where the operation will be performed by skilled medical men.
The name of the ship which we had charteredwas "The Pilgrim Father.
The barque I sent on to St. John, and, following her myself by steamer, I chartered her to carry home a cargo of timber.
I had my business with its anxieties to attend to, and on one of my visits I had a rather adventurous trip to Nassau in a small schooner which I had chartered to convey some boiler tubes there.
In 1855 Elmira College was founded, the first institution chartered as a separate college for women.
Ipswich and Abbot Academies in Massachusetts had already beenchartered to educate girls alone.
One of the most notable was Troy Seminary, founded by Emma Hart Willard and chartered in 1819.
It was to penetrate and bring this great virgin region within reach of the East that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company was chartered by Congress in 1864, just prior to the closing of the Civil War.
This company was chartered in 1846, but for many years was frowned on as an unsound business venture, because of the belief that it would be in direct competition with the river traffic and therefore could never be made to pay.
The chartered companies which were formed during this period for trade with the Indies and the New World have had a more wide-reaching influence in history.
It is when we turn to North America that the importance of the chartered company, as a colonizing rather than a trading agency, is seen in its full development.
In 1888 Charlottesville was chartered as a city administratively independent of the county.
These companies succeed or fail for reasons different from those which affected the chartered companies of former days, though there are points in common.
It was in the age of Elizabeth and the early Stuarts that the chartered company, in the modern sense of the term, had its rise.
In such a case the formation of a chartered company may be the best way out of the difficulty.
Of all early English chartered companies, the "Merchant Adventurers" conducted its operations the most widely.
The first recorded instance of a purely chartered company annexing territory is to be found in the action of this company in setting up a cross at Spitzbergen in 1613 with King James's arms upon it.
During the last twenty years of the 19th century there was a great revival of the system of chartered companies in Great Britain.
But a chartered company can never be anything but a transition stage of colonization; sooner or later the state must take the lead.
Here lay those who had fallen of the Chartered Company's Forces.
Jameson, administrator of Mashonaland and Matabeleland, had entered the Transvaal at the head of the Chartered Company's Police, 600 strong, with several Maxim and Gardner guns.
We chartered a Cape cart and an excellent pair of grey horses, and made our first attempt to reach Pretoria via the lead-mines, the same route taken by Dr.
