Although the charter authorizing the Nauvoo Legion created an independent militia, it could be used by the state governor, the President of the United States, or the mayor of Nauvoo.

The courts have established, however, that the alteration or revocation of private charters or laws authorizing private charters must be reasonable and cannot cause harm to the members (founders, stockholders, and the like).

In 1980, Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy and Rhode Island legislature granted a legislative charter authorizing the university to award advanced degrees.

In 1926, the General Assembly granted a charter authorizing the school to offer two years of college work and to change its name to the Third District Agricultural and Normal College.

He took with him a ten-year charter authorizing him to trade under Imperial colours between Austria's Adriatic ports and Persia, India, China and Africa, and from Africa and Madagascar to America.

Plymouth Colony did not have a royal charter authorizing it to form a government.

A Broad Charter Law-enforcement officials said today that the language of the charter, authorizing the independent counsel to investigate "evidence of violation of any Federal law," is broad enough to allow the prosecutor to delve into the shredding issue or other matters.

New York's thirty-eighth University Convocation assembled June 25, 1900, in Albany and, among other things, granted a provisional charter to the American Institute of Applied Music, authorizing the issued of $15,000 capital stock.

In the summer of 1822, after realizing there were enough settlers in the area, Conner and other settlers applied to the Indiana Legislature for a charter authorizing them to become a separate and independent county under Indiana law.