Wentworth Gold Field Company Act 1853 17 Vic (NSW)

Wentwortn Gotp Fieip Company.

Preamble.

An Act to incorporate "The Wentworth Gold Field Company." [26th September, 1853.]

HEREAS a joint stock company called "The Wentworth Gold Field 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-second day of February 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 decd 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 thercin provided should be and continue until dissolved under the provisions in that behalf therein contained a joint stock company under the name and title of "The Wentworth Gold Field Company" for working auriferous or other mineral rocks loam earth and soil in the said Colony for the purchase and lease of auriferous quartz and other mineral and alluvial gold claims and lands and for procuring gold therefrom for the pur- chase and sale of gold and for making or procuring advances of money on consignments and deposits of gold and it was by the said deed of settlement agreed that the capital of the said company should consist of thirty thousand pounds divided into three thousand shares of ten pounds each and of such further sum or sums as might thereafter be raised by the creation allotment and sale of new shares as therein pro- vided And whereas by the said deed of settlement provision has been

made

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Wentworth Gold Field Company.

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 saidcompany 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 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—