Sydney Dry Dock Company Act 1853 17 Vic (NSW)

Dax Dock Comrasx. An) Act to incorporate "The Sydney Dry Dock

Preamble.

Company" and for other purposes therein mentioned. [24th October, 1853.]

HEREAS a joint stock company called "The Sydney Dry Dock Company"' 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 bearing date the twenty-first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three purporting to be a deed of settlement of the said company And whereas by the said deed of settlement 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 Sydney Dry Dock Company" for making and maintaining within Port Jackson in the said Colony a dry dock or dry docks and slips capable of receiving vessels of all classes whether navigated by steam or otherwise and wherein and by means whereof such vessels may be inspected and repaired and for the repair of such vessels and for making and providing wharves yards and places for loading or unloading any such vessels and supplying the same with coals fresh water and all needful service stores and equipment and for the erection of warehouses storehouses sheds and other buildings for receiving and depositing goods and for the erection of offices workshops cranes weighing and other machines steam engines appliances and conveniences necessary for the purposes of such dry docks slips wharves and warehouses and for the purchase and use of steam tugs to be employed in connection with the said docks and other- wise in and about the said harbour of Port Jackson and it was by the said deed of settlement agreed that the capital of the said company should consist of one hundred thousand pounds divided into fifty