Sydney Gold Escort Act 1853 17 Vic (NSW)

Gotp Escort,

Preamble.

Company incor- porated,

An Act to incorporate '" The Sydney Gold Escort Company." [26th August, 1853. ]

HEREAS a joint stock company called "The Sydney Gold Escort Company" has been lately established at Sydney in

the Colony of New South Wales under and subject to the rules regu- lations and provisions contained in a certain deed of settlement bearing date the twentieth day of January 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 be and continue until such company should be dissolved under the provisions in that behalf therein contained a joint stock company under the name and title of "The Sydney Gold Escort Company"' for the conveyance of gold silver and precious stones and quartz and ore containing the precious metals money bullion specie and bank and other notes and bills from and to any place or places within the several Colonies of New South Wales Victoria and South Australia respectively and it was by the said deed of settlement agreed that the capital of the said company should consist of fifty thousand pounds divided into five thousand shares of ten pounds each or so much thereof as might from time to time be necessary and of such further sum or sums as might thereafter be raised by the creation allotment and sale of new shares as therein provided And whereas by the said deed of settlement provision has heen made for the due 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 shareholders of the 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 hereinafter contained Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows— 1. Such and so many persons as have already become or at any