Sydney Railway Company Act 1849 13 Vic (NSW)

Swxer anwar An Act to incorporate a Company to be called

— "The Sydney Railway Company." [10th October, 1849.]

Preamble. \ V HEREAS the making and maintaining of railways in the

Colony of New South Wales would be of great public utility

and it is deemed advisable to grant encouragement to such enter-

prising persons as may be desirous and willing to make and maintain

such railways by granting to them an Act of Incorporation Be it

therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South

Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof

That William Bradley William Bowman '[homas Barker Charles

Cowper Thomas Holt the younger Arthur Jeffreys David Jones Moses

Joseph Charles Kemp Robert Lowe Samuel Lyons Archibald Michie

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort Abraham Moses Charles Nicholson George

Oakes John Norton Oxley Robert Porter Henry Gilbert Smith Charles

Throsby William Walker Edward Weston and Adolphus William

Proprietors incorpo. Young Esquires and all and every other person and corporation who

wi de oat shall hereafter become subscribers to the said undertaking and their

way Company." Several and respective successors executors administrators and assigns

shall be and are united into a company for making completing and

maintaining a railway or railways in the said Colony and other works

by this Act authorized to be made and executed and for that purpose

shall be one body corporate by the name and style of '" The Sydney

Railway Company" and by that name shall have perpetual succession

and shall have a common seal and by that name shall and may sue

and be sued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto

defend and be defended in all Courts and places whatsoever and the

said company shall have power and authority from and after the

passing of this Act and at all times hereafter to purchase and hold