Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company's Act 1874 37 Vic (NSW)

Greta Coat AND SwaLe Minina Company's,

Preamble.

Company incor- porated by the name of the "Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company."

37° VIC. 1874.

Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company's.

An Act to incorporate the "Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company." [16th April, 1874. |

HEREAS a joint stock company called the "Greta Coal and Shale Minine Company" has been lately established at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales under ard subject to the rules regulations and provisions contained in a certain deed of settlement bearing date the first day of December one tiousand cight hundred and seventy-three and by the said deed the several parties thereto have respectively covenanted and agreed that they shculd form and be a Joint Stock Company under the name of the ' Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company "' and that the objects and business of the Company should be to search for raise and obtain from certain lands mentioned in the said deed of settlement and from any other land that may thereafter be acquired by the said Company all such coal and kerosene shale and other metals and mincrals as may be found therein and the manufacture of coal into coke and of clay and other substances into fire or other bricks and also to wash crush smelt refine or ocherwise make markct- able any coal shale mineral rocks loam carth or soil and to extract distil and refine any oils or other products therefrom and for any of the purposes aforesaid to purchase hire or otherwise obtain machinery and erect construct and establish all such furnaces steam and other engines machinery buildings and other works ¢s may be proper and necessary for such purposes Also to purchase or hire vessels and to make or unite with any other persons in making rail or tramroads wharfs and staiths or other conveniences for "he transit deposit or shipment of the coal and shale and other property of the Company and to export sell or otherwise dispose of all sa.eable products which may be obtained by the means aforesaid and generally to make erect construct build and provide all such other works and conveniences as may be deemed necessary for all or any of tie purposes aforesaid And whereas it was by the said decd of' settlement agreed that the capital of the said Company should until increased as therein provided: be fifty thousand pounds and should be divided into five thousand shares of ten pounds each And whereas by the said deed provision has been made for the due management of the affairs of the said Company by directors therein named and by other directors to be from time to time elected and appointed by the shareholders of the said Company And whereas the said Company is desirous of being incor- porated under the provisions herein contained and it is expedient that such Company shall be incorporated for the purposcs aforesaid Be it. therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Cotncil and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled as follows :— 1. Every person who has already become or who shall at any time hereafter become holders of shares in the said Company in the manner provided by the said deed of settlement and subject to the provisions therein contained and their several and respective successors executors administrators and assigns shall for the purposes aforesaid be one body corporate by the name and style of the " Greta Coal and Shale Mining Company " and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall and may sueand besued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto dezend and be defended in all Courts and places whatsoever.