Fitz Roy Iron and Coal Mining Company Act 1854 18 Vic (NSW)

An Act to establish and incorporate a Company Fiz Rov ties asp

Coan Mining

to be called " The Fitz Roy Iron and Coal "Comas. Mining Company." [81st October, 1854. |

IEREAS a certain joint stock company called "The Pitz Roy vreambie.

Iron Mining Company" was established in the year one thousand cight hundred and fifty-one for the purpose of quarrying smelting and disposing of the ores of iron and steel to be obtained from certain mineral lands situate at Mittagong in the Colony of New South Wales the property of the said company "and of manufacturi ing the said iron and stccl in such manner as the directors of the said company should from time to time determine under and subject to the rules regulations and provisions contained in a certain deed of settle- ment bearing date the fifteenth day of September in the year aforesaid And whereas the said Fitz Roy Iron Mining Company are desirous of extending the operations of the said company by admitting other per- sons willing to subscribe to and augment the capital thercof and it has been agreed between the said parties the proprictors of the said company to form a new company under the name of "The Fitz Roy Tron and Coal Mining Company" having a capital of two hundred thousand pounds in ten thousand shares of twenty pounds each And whereas it has been agreed that the iron and coal mines and all other the property of the said Fitz Roy Iron Mining Company shall be

transferred

374 . 18° VIC. 1854. Fitz Roy Iron and Coal Mining Company.

transferred to the Fitz Roy Iron and Coal Mining Company in con- sideration of the first three thousand three hundred and thirty-three shares of the capital of the new or last-mentioned company being allotted to and vested in the shareholders of the first-mentioned company as paid up shares in the proportion in which they are now proprictors of shares in that company And whereas the said scveral persons proprictors of the said Vitz Roy Iron Mining Company are desirous that the said deed of settlement should be cancelled and that a company should be established and incorporated under the provisions herein contained and it is expedient that a company should be estab- lished and incorporated for the purposes herein mentioned Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows—