The Moruya Silver Mining Company’s Incorporation Act 1864 27 Vic (NSW)

1864, 27° VIC. Moruya Silver Mining Company.

An Act to incorporate the "Moruya Silver Mining Company." [11th April, 1864.]

TTEREAS a joint stock Company ealled "The Moruya Silver Preamble.

Mining 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 decd of settlement bearing date the tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty- -two 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 whilst holding shares in the capi al of the said Company would remain and continue until dissolved undcr the provisions in that behalf therein contained a joint stock Company under the name style and title of " The Moruya Silver Mining Company" for the purpose of working or contracting 'for the working 'of all the lodes veins and strata of metallic ore and minerals upon or under the surface of certain lands and hereditaments in the said deed of settlement mentioned or such other lands and hereditaments as might thereafter be taken on lcase or license by the said Company under the provisions of the said deed of settlement and to purchase any metallic ores or minerals and to make advances on deposit or consignment thereof wash or otherwise render merchantable the ores and minerals won or obtained therefrom and also to smelt and refine such ores and mincrals and to sell export or otherwise dispose of all such ores and mincrals either in a natural or manufactured condition And whereas it was by the said deed of settlement agreed that the capital of the Company should consist of twenty thousand pounds sterling to be divided into four thousand shares of the amount of five pounds cach and of such further sum or sums of moncy as should or might be raised by the creation of new shares as therein provided And whereas by the said deed of scttle- ment provision has becn made for the due management of the affairs of the said Company by certain directors and auditors already appointed and by other directors and auditors to be from time to time elected and appointed as their successors by the shareholders of the said Company And whereas the whole of the capital of twenty thousand pounds has been subscribed for And whereas the said Company is desirous of being incorporated and it is expedicnt that the said Company should be incorporated accordingly Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Execllent 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 :—