Preamble, The Fourah Bay College Short title and (Transfer of Rights, Property and Liabilities) Ordinance

1150 Cap. 106] Fourah Bay College (Transfer of Rights, Property and Liab1:Zities) CHAPTER 106. FOURAH BAY COLLEGE (TRANSFER OF RIGHTS, PROPERTY AND LIABILITIES). WHEREAS The Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (hereinafter called the Church Missionary Society) in the year 1827 founded Fourah Bay College for the purpose (among others) of training candidates for Holy Orders in the Church of England and maintained the said Fourah Bay College largely from voluntary subscriptions raised by the Church Missionary Society and fees paid by the students of Fourah Bay College: Fourah Bay College (Transfer of Rights, Property and Liabilities) [Cap. 106 AND WHEREAS in the year 1876 the College was affiliated and has since remained affiliated to the University of Durham and in the eighty-three years that have passed since then a large number of persons have enjoyed the benefits of university education at Fourah Bay College: AND WHEREAS when the requirements of higher education in Sierra Leone passed beyond the resources of voluntary aid and became a part of the responsibilities of the Government of Sierra Leone the said Government decided in agreement with the Church Missionary Society to make further provision for higher education in Sierra Leone through the reconstitution of Fourah Bay. College and to this end enacted the Fourah Bay College fg~ 0~ of Ordmance, 1950: AND WHEREAS Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to grant a Royal Charter for the purpose of reconstituting the College as a University College in order to enable it the better to achieve the advancement of learning, the diffusion and extension of knowledge and the furtherance of the objects for which the College was incorporated: