The Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company’s Incorporation Act 1866 30 Vic (NSW)

Harriey Kerosene Om. AND PARAFFINE Company.

Preamble.

30° VIC. 1866. Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company.

An Act to incorporate "The Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company Limited." [6th November, 1866. ]|

HEREAS a Joint Stock Company called "The Kerosene Oil

and Paraffine Company Limited" 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 Deed of Settlement bearing date the thirty-first day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five purporting to be the 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 capital of the said Com- pany should become remain and continue until dissolved under the provisions in that behalf therein contained a Joint Stock Company for the express object of carrying on the business thereof under the name style and title of "The Hartley Kerosene Oil and Paraffine Company Limited" for the purpose of working or contracting for the working of the mines of the said Company whether coal shale or bituminous mineral and all other the lodes veins and strata of metallic or other ores and minerals upon or under the surface of certain lands and hereditaments in the said Deed of Settlement mentioned and such other lands and hereditaments as might be thereafter purchased or taken on lease or license by the said Company under the provisions of the said Deed of Settlement and also for the purpose of extracting the oils naphtha benzole paraffine and all other products obtainable from the said coal shale or other minerals and of refining such oils and of erecting all such machinery as might be necessary for that purpose and also if deemed advisable to carry on the business of sulphuric acid manufacturers or to manufacture all such other products as might be necessary in their business and calling of manufacturers of oil and other products obtainable from the said coal and other minerals and to lease or sell any such lands and to construct railways roads and wharves and to do all other matters necessary for the promotion of the objects of the said Company and to purchase any metallic ores or minerals and to make advances on deposit or consignment thereof and to wash stamp or otherwise render merchantable the ores and minerals so gotten purchased or obtained and to smelt and refine such ores and minerals and also to sell export or otherwise dispose of all or any such coal shale ores and other minerals in such condition in such market and generally in such manner and form as the Board of Directors of the said Company should think most bene- ficial to the interests of the said Company and also if deemed expedient to carry on the business of smelting or otherwise preparing for market any ores or minerals belonging to other persons or bodies upon such terms as should be deemed advisable And whereas it was by the said Deed of Settlement agreed that the capital of the Company should until increased under the provisions in the said Deed of Settlement contained consist of thirty thousand pounds sterling to be divided into thirty thousand shares of the amount of one pound each And whereas. by the said Deed of Settlement provision has been 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