Australian Library and Literary Institution Act Amendment Act of 1866 29 Vic (NSW)

AUSTRALIAN Lisrary AND Literary Instrrution AcT AMENDMENT.

Preamble. 17 Vic.

An Act to amend an Act intituled "An Act to 'incorporate the Australian Subscription Library

"and otherwise to alter and amend its constitu- "tion." [7th April, 1866.]

HEREAS an Act was passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty by the then Legislature of this

Colony intituled "'.An Act to incorporate the Australian Subscription Library and otherwise to alter and amend its constitution"? whereby it was enacted that the said Library should thereafter be called the « Australian Library and Literary Institution" and the subscribers and shareholders were incorporated by that name and by the said Act various provisions were made relative to the constitution and manage- ment of the said Institution And whereas a general meeting of the shareholders and proprietors of the said Institution was duly convened and held on the first day of November last and by adjournment on the

thirteenth

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thirteenth day of that month and the fourth and eleventh days of December last And whereas at the said mecting certain resolutions were adopted and amongst others for increasing the number of shares in the property of the said Library and diminishing the price or nominal value thereof and for making other changes in the constitution and management of the said Library which cannot be carried into full effect without the aid of the Legislature And it is therefore expedient to alter and amend the said Act and to make such provisions respecting the said Library as are herein contained 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 :—