The Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors is one of the Livery Companies of the

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. The organisation was granted Letters Patent in May 1977. The Company promotes surveying by awarding scholarships. The Company ranks eighty-fifth in the

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for Livery Companies. Its motto is ''Modus ab initio'', which is Latin for "Method from the very beginning" and its church is

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The landscape painter

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's drawings in ''Halls of the Livery Companies of the City of London'' were re-published in 1981 to mark their grant of livery status. The Company does not have its own livery hall and meets and dines in a selection of the 35 different livery halls in

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