Australasian Coal Mining Company Act 1853 17 Vic (NSW)

An Act to incorporate a Company called " The Arsmaases Com Australasian Coal Mining Company" and for

other purposes therein mentioned. [10th October, 1853. ]

\ 7ALEREAS a company has been established in London for the Preamble. purposes hereinafter mentionod under the style of 'The Australasian Coal Mining Company" with a capital to consist of two hundred thousand pounds i in forty thousand shares of five pounds each with power to inerease the capital to four hundred thousand pounds and the same has been provisionally registered in England according to the Act of Parliament in that behalf made And whereas of the said shares thirty-seven thousand six hundred have been subscribed for and allotted in England and two thousand four hundred have been reserved for allotment in the Australasian Colonics And whereas a deposit or first call of one pound per share has been paid upon cach of the said thirty-seven thousand six hundred shares so subscribed for and allotted in England And whereas Richard Ienry Brown heretofore of the city of Sydney but now residing in London Esquire George Bowness Carr of Lawrence Pountney Lane in the city of London Esquire Robert Campbell of the city of Sydney but now absent in England Esquire William Fane de Salis herctofore of Sydney aforesaid but now residing in London Esquire Richard Maxwell Fox Member for the county of Longford in the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom the Honorable John Leslie Foster of Melbourne Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Victoria Patrick Douglass Hadow of the city of London one of the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Stcam Navigation Company Charles John Mare Member for the borough of Plymouth in the Imperial Parliament of the United Kingdom Robert Scott a Captain in the Honorable the Fast India Company's Naval Scrvice and Adolphus William Young of Sydney but now absent in England Esquire are the present provisional dircctors of the said company And whereas by indenture made the fifteenth day of March last past after reciting amongst other things the agreement to form the said company and the payment of the said deposit but that the same (less expenses incurred) was to be returned to the subscribers in case a Royal charter should not be granted conferring the privilege of limited liability or limited liability should not be obtained by an Act of the Legislature of New South Wales or Act of the Imperial Parliament the subscribers to the capital of the said company did covenant and agree (amongst other things) that they or their respective executors or administrators should and would