Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Company Act 1855 19 Vic (NSW)

dorm Tar An Act to establish and incorporate a Company Bann Conant. to be called 'The Moreton Bay Immigration and Land Company." [Lath December, 1855.]

Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to afford additional facilitics for the immigration of suitable families and individuals of the working classes into the Moreton Bay District of New South Wales for the supply of the urgent demand "for labor in all branches of industry in that district and also for the formation of an agricultural population for the growth of cotton and other articles of agricultural produce suited to the soil and climate And whercas the progressive purchase of suitable tracts of waste land for the purpose of promoting immi- gration into that district would afford the means of accomplishing this object: provided that a company were formed for the purpose And whereas the several persons hereinafter named have associated for the accomplishment of this object and it is deemed advisable to give encouragement to them by eranting to them an Act of Incor- poration Be it therefore enacted by Ilis Excellency the Governor of New South Wales by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows—

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Moreton Ba y Immigration and Lund Compan i

1. The following persons that is to say Robert Cribb James Company incor.

yi an James Gibbon William Hobbs Benjamin Cribb John Markwell herted.

D. A. Somersett William Turner John Rankin McQuarie MeDonald Campbell McDonald Henry Kilner William Warren tLenvy Challinor Henry M. Cockburn Frederic k A. Forbes John Dunmore Lang Thomas Dowse John Fielding Richard Sexton Joseph Foote John C. Foote James Foote John George Cribb Thomas Smith James H. Robertson Thomas Lade Ambrose Eldridge R. Cribb junior and all other persons who shall hereafter become subscribers to the said undertaking and their several and respective successors executors administrators and assigns shall be and hereby are united into a com- pany for the purchase of suitable tracts of waste land for the promotion of immigration and for the re-sale thereof in small farms with a view to the settlement of an agricultural population in the Moreton Bay District of the Colony of New South Wales and for these purposes shall be one body corporate by the name and style of " 'The Morcton Bay Immigration and Land Company" and by that name shall have pe rpetual sucecssion and a common seal and shall and may sue and be sued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto defend and he defended in all Courts and places whatsoever and shall have power and authority from and after the passing of this Act and at all times thereafter to purchase and hold lands to them and their successors and assigns with a view to the promotion of immigration and also to sell and dispose of or lease the said lands again in small farms or other- wise as may be deemed most expedient for the settlement of an agricultural population in the said district.