the Australian General Assurance Company’s Incorporation Act 1866 29 Vic (NSW)

AUSTRALIAN GENERAL ASSURANCE Company's INCORPORATION.

Preamble.

An Act to incorporate the Australian General Assurance Company. [7th April, 1866.]

HEREAS a Joint Stock Company called the " Australian Fire

and Life Assurance Company "' was in the year one thousand

eight hundred and thirty-six established at Sydney under and by virtue of the provisions of a certain deed of settlement bearing date the twentieth day of May one thousand cight hundred and thirty-six by which the duration of the said Company was limited to the period of thirty-one years from the date thereof and the business of such Company was carried on accordingly under such name and provisions until the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine And whereas by a supplementary deed of settlement bearing date the sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine the business of marine assurance was added to the business which the said Company was by its original constitution competent to transact and the name and style of the said Company was altered to that of the " Australian General Assurance Company"? And whereas an Act was passed in the ninth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled "dn Act "to simplify proceedings at Law or in Equity by or against the " 'Australian General Assurance Company'" and for other purposes therein mentioned And whereas by another Act made and passed in the twentieth year of the reign of Her present Majesty intituled "(dn Act to incorporate the ' Australian General Assurance Company'" the said Company was incorporated And whereas under the last- mentioned name and style and under the joint effect of the provisions contained in the said original and supplementary deeds of settlement and under such of the said recited Acts as for the time being have been in force and operation the marine business of the said Company (thereinafter called the original Company) has been until recently transacted the fire and life departments having been some time since discontinued And whereas by a document in writing bearing date the second day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five made and signed in conformity with a provision in that behalf con- tained in the said recited supplementary deed of settlement the said original Company was dissolved with a reservation only of such powers as should be necessary for the Directors or other officers thereof to give effect to the authority thereinafter conferred and otherwise