Parramatta Gas Company's Incorporation Act (Limited) 36 Vic (NSW)

1872. 36° VIC. 23

Parramatta Gas Company's Incorporation.

An Act to incorporate the Parramatta Gas 2sse™, Company (Limited). [18th August, 1872.] — »comomanox.

HEREAS a Joint Stock Company called the Parramatta Gas Preamble.

Company (Limited) has been] lately established at Parramatta in the Colony of New South Wales under and subject to the rules regu- lations and provisions contained in a certain deed of settlement bearing date the sixth day of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy- one 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 Company 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 Parramatta Gas Company (Limited) for the purpose of producing inflammable air or gas from coal oil tar pitch or other material and for lighting and supplying with gas all public and private places roads streets and buildings within the town of Parramatta in the Colony of New South Wales and its suburbs and also for manufacturing sclling or disposing of all and every product refuse or residuum to be obtained from the material uscd in such business And for the purposes aforesaid to purchase or lease lands offices and buildings and make erect sink lay place and fix such retorts gasholders meters receivers cisterns engines machines cuts drains sewers water-courses pipes reservoirs and buildings of such construction and in such manner as should he deemed necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the objects of the said Company into execution And whereas by the said deed of settlement it was further agreed that the capital of the Company should consist of nine thousand pounds to he contributed in shares of five pounds each and of such further sum and sums of money as should be raised by the creation allotment and sale of new shares for the like amount as therein provided And that the said Company should commence its operations so soon. as two-thirds of the shares of the Company should have been taken up and the proprietors thereof should have executed the said deed of settlement And whereas by the said deed of settlement pro- vision has been made for the due management of the affairs of the said Company by certain Directors already appointed and by other Directors to be from time to time elected and appointed as their successors by the shareholders of the said Company and also for the disposal and application of the profits and the payment of dividends and bonuses 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 Excellent Majesty by "and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the author ity. of the same as follows :—