Sydney Exchange Company Act 1851 15 Vic (NSW)

svoxey Excuaxot A) Act for the incorporation of a Company

Company,

Preamble.

called "The Sydney Exchange Company." [19th December, 1851. ]

A 7] HEREAS the erecting and maintaining a building in the city

of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales to be uscd as an Exchange or place of resort wherein merchants and other persons concerned in commerce may conveniently meet for the purpose of con- ferring upon and transacting commercial affairs and for other purposes incidental thereto would he of great public utility and it is deemed advisable to give encouragement to such enterprising persons as may be willing to erect and maintain such building by granting to them an Act of incorporation and conferring upon the corporation the privileges and advantages hereinafter mentioned And whereas the persons hereinafter particularly mentioned have associated themselves for the purpose of erecting and maintaining an Exchange and are desirous of obtaining an Act of Incorporation Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor General of New South Wales with the advice

Proprietors incorpo. ANd consent of the Legislative Council thereof That Joseph Scaife

rated by the name of

«The Sydney Ex- change Company."

Willis John William Gosling John Walker Alexander Campbell Joshua Richmond Young John Gilchrist George Thorn Thomas Whistler Smith George Rees and David Jones all of Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales gentlemen and all and every other person and persons who shall hereafter become subscribers to the capital of the said undertaking and their several and respective executors adminis- trators and assigns are and shall be united into a company for erecting and maintaining a building in the city of Sydney aforesaid to be used as an Exchange or place of resort wherein merchants and other persons : concerned.