The Wagga Wagga Bridge Company’s Act of 1861 25 Vic (NSW)

1861. 25° VIC. 617 Wagga Wagga Bridge Company.

An Act to incorporate "The Wagga Wagga piscine Bridge Company." [5th December, 1861.]

W ITEREAS a joint stock company has been lately established Preamble.

at Wagga Wagga in the Colony of New South Wales under the name of "The Wagga Wagga Bridge Company" and subject to the articles and conditions contained in a certain indenture of scttle- ment of the said company hereinafter styled "the settlement" bearing date the twenty-third day of August one thousand eight hundred and sixty And whereas by the said scttlement the several parties thercto have reciprocally covenanted that they and all future proprictors of shares in the said company should become a company under the name aforesaid for making completing and maintaining a substantial bridge over the River Murrumbidgee at Wagea Wageaata site which has been approved by the Government and for the authority to receive tolls at such bridge And whereas the said bridge would be greatly for the benefit of the public generally as well as of the inhabi- tants of Wagga Wagga and its immediate neighbourhood And whereas by the said scttlement provision has been made for the due management of the affairs of the company by directors to be elected as therein mentioned and the first such directors are therein and hereinafter named And whereas the capital of the said company is by the said indenture fixed for the present at the sum of four thousand pounds with power if deemed expedient to increase the same And whereas shares in the said company to the whole amount of the said capital have already been allotted and taken and the sum of four lundred pounds has been actually paid up in part of the said amount And whereas the said company have obtained leave and license from thie Crown to use and appropriate for all necessary purposes of the said bridge and the approaches thereto such lands of the Crown as are hereinafter mentioned And whereas the said company are desirous of being incorporated and it is expedient that the said company should be incorporated accordingly Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows—