In 1821, Dalhousie College was officially incorporated by the Nova Scotia House of Assembly under the Act of Incorporation passed in 1821.

In 1856, the first Board of Trustees meeting was held ; articles of Incorporation were adopted ; and classes began January 7, 1857.

The US National Academy of Sciences was created by an Act of Incorporation in 1863, which was signed by the President of the United States Abraham Lincoln.

It is a period which historian Richard Maxwell Brown has called the " Western Civil War of Incorporation " and of which the Johnson County War was part.

Incorporation: in 1991 most of the old Malibu land grant was incorporated as a city to allow local control of the area ( as cities, unlike townships, are not subject to the same level of county government oversight ).

Sedco Hills was incorporated into Wildomar, CA in the July 1, 2008 Incorporation of Wildomar, CA.

The Ruskin Incorporation Committee was formed to perform a study on whether it was feasible for the community to become a city in which it found it was.

Incorporation would become a blessing in 1960, when much of the city was destroyed by Hurricane Donna.

Incorporation: The townsite was platted and a dedication was made on September 24, 1873.

Incorporation: By the fall of 1898, it was found that 180 people lived in the community of Brewster.

Incorporation: The town was incorporated on February 17, 1896, and the first village president was a Mr. L. F. Miller.

An organization was formed calling itself the " Chesterfield Incorporation Study Committee.

Incorporation came in 1970, when the population was 825.

The process to form a City of Fairwood was restarted by the Fairwood Municipal Initiative when it filed a Notice of Proposed Incorporation with King County, Washington on April 16, 2007.

A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Victoria on 13 September 1882, and the west range of Old Court was ready for use by the college's official opening ( with the Master's installation ) on 10 October 1882, in time for Michaelmas Term.

Two years later, on 2 June 1896, the town was granted a Charter of Incorporation and the area covered by the Urban District Council became a Municipal Borough.

The original Charter of Incorporation, dated 31 October 1838, was received in Birmingham on 1 November, then read in the Town Hall on 5 November with elections for the first Town Council being held on 26 December.

The tartan was designed by the Weavers Incorporation of Aberdeen and Harry Lindley and incorporates colours from the university's coat of arms.

* The British Broadcasting Corporation is granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

Chippenham was represented in the Parliament of England from 1295 onwards and Queen Mary granted the town a Charter of Incorporation in 1554.

Town status was granted to the two parishes of Gravesend and Milton ; the Charter of Incorporation was received in that year.

In 1874, the City of Peterborough was granted a Charter of Incorporation and the new council was required to appoint a Watch Committee and constabulary.

On 16 December 1528, through the interests of Vesey, Henry VIII granted Sutton Coldfield a Charter of Incorporation, creating a new form of government for the town which was named the Warden and Society of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield.

The Charter of Incorporation was granted in 1966, to create the University of Bradford ; the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson became the university's first chancellor.

On 1 January 1944 the Whitley and Monkseaton Urban District became the Whitley Bay Urban District and on 5 March 1954 it was granted its Royal Charter of Incorporation as the Borough of Whitley Bay.

The Guild became a Company when a Royal Charter of Incorporation was granted by King Edward III in 1363.

On 13 March 1885 Mossley was granted a Charter of Incorporation to become a municipal borough, replacing the local board.

On 2 February 1868, Queen Victoria granted a Charter of Incorporation, defining St Helens officially as a Municipal Borough.

In 1890, Queen Victoria granted the NRA a Royal Charter of Incorporation.

* 1931: Incorporation amalgamation of Sennnan District Asogou Village, Shima Village, Kita-Kogi Village, and Minami-Kogi Village with Kaizuka Town.

Incorporation of unusual instruments ( for rock drummers of the time ) such as the glockenspiel and tubular bells, along with several standard kit elements, helped create a highly varied setup.

Incorporation of Rhodes University's former campus in East London in 2004 gave the University an urban base and a coastal base for the first time.

* El Dorado Local Agency Formation Committee, " Final Environmental Impact Report for the Incorporation of El Dorado Hills ", May 12, 2005

Articles of Incorporation for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad indicate unequivocably that the corporation intended to build a maximum of 100 miles of track, including sidings and spurs, through the agricultural acreage east of Fresno, then north to the timber and mineral resources of the Sierra foothills.

Incorporation efforts in the late 1990s were largely driven by the need for residents to have a stronger voice against the prospective construction of an international airport at the nearby decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.

Talks of Incorporation spread in 1993 and incorporation became a reality on July 2, 1993 when 60 % of the communities ' people voted for incorporation.

Incorporation papers for Chadwick were approved on Sept. 26, 1882.

Incorporation papers for Lindenhurst were filed in November 1956 with Lake County Judge Minard Hulse.

Incorporation petitions were filed on Friday, March 4, 1960, while Inkster officials delivered their petitions for incorporation on Monday, March 7, 1960.

Incorporation meant that the town would be eligible to receive grants for paving roads and installing a new water system.

After receiving much input from the local community with the desire to keep their community intact, SOCS filed a Notice of Intent for Incorporation, which would create the City of Smokey Point-Lakewood.

On May 20, 1898, the Articles of Incorporation for the town of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma were established under the Arkansas Statutes, placing all of the densely settled areas under one jurisdiction.

For example, federal jurisdiction to incorporate companies is inferred from the power provinces have under Section 92 for " The Incorporation of Companies with Provincial Objects.

While the Supreme Court has only recently ruled that the Second Amendment prevents localities from enacting outright handgun bans, ( See: Incorporation ), the question of whether the Second Amendment provides grounds to invalidate local gun control laws like the Sullivan Act may be addressed given the recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court in the case District of Columbia v. Heller.

Incorporation of green manures into a farming system can drastically reduce, if not eliminate, the need for additional products such as supplemental fertilizers and pesticides.

The Charter of Incorporation refers to the place as ' Essa ' ( Latin for ' Ash ').

In 1644, Roger Williams secured a land patent establishing " the Incorporation of Providence Plantations in the Narragansett Bay ," under the authority of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, head of the Commission for Foreign Plantations.

* PBS History Detectives episode looks at Incorporation papers for Universal Friends

The following year he obtained a Charter for Incorporation for Newport from the king, providing for the election of a mayor instead of the historical appointed bailiff.