Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company Act 1852 16 Vic (NSW)

Gotp MINING

Great Nucver Vew Ary Act to incorporate 'The Great Nugect Vein

Company,

Gold Mining Company of Australia." [28th December, 1852. |

Preamble. AY HEREAS a joint stock company called "The Great Nugget:

Company incor- porated.

Vein Gold 'Mining Company of Australia" has been lately established at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales under and subject to the rules regulations and provisions contained in a certain deed of settlement Dearing date the first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two pur porting to be a deed of scttlement of the said company And whereas by the said deed of scttlement the several parties thereto have respectively and mutually covenanted and agreed that they and such other persons as should become proprietors of shares in the said company as therein provided should become a company under the name of "The Great. Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company of Australia" for procuring gold from auriferous rocks and soil in Australia and for the purchase 'and sale of gold and for making or procuring advances of moncy or con- signments and deposits of gold and it was by the said decd of scttle- ment agreed that the capital of the said company should consist of two hundred thousand pounds divided into one hundred thousand shares of two pounds each or so much thereof as might from time to time be necessary and of such further sum or sums not exceeding the sum of five hundred thousand pounds as might thereafter be raised hy the creation allotment and sale of new shares as therein provided And whereas by the said deed of settlement provision has been made for the duc management of the affairs of the company by certain directors already appointed and by other directors to be from time to time elected and appointed as their successors by the sharcholdcrs of said company And whereas the said company is desirous of being incorporated and it is expedient that the said company should be incorporated accordingly subject to the provisions thercinafter con- tained Be it therefore enacted by ILis Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows—