Armidale Gas Company's Incorporation Act of 1884 48 Vic (NSW)

ARMIDALE Gas Company's Tycorvoration.

Preamble,

An Act to incorporate the Armidale Gas Company (Limited) and to enable the said Armidale Gas Company (Limited) to construct Gas-works within the city of Armidale. [20th June, 1884. ]

Ww" EREAS it is expedient that the city of Armidale in the Colony

of New South Wales should be supplied and lighted with gas And whereas for the carrying out of the works necessary for such supply of gas a Joint Stock Company called the Armidale Gas Company (Limited) has lately been established at Armidale in the Colony of New South Wales under and subject to the rules regulations restrictions and provisions contained in certain articles of association signed in the month of October one thousand eight hundred and cighty-three and purporting to be the articles of association of the said Company And whereas by the memorandum of association of the said Company it was declared that the objects for which the said Company was estab- lished were to manufacture gas and supply the same in the town and suburbs of Armidale and to carry on the business of a gas company in all its branches To manufacture render saleable and deal in coke tar

pitch asphaltum and all residual products obtained in the manufacture of

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Armidale Gas Company's Incorporation.

of gas T'o construct and maintain works for manufacturing receiving and purifying gas and all other works buildings pipes plant machinery apphancees and "apparatus necessary or proper "for the manufacture or supply of gas 'To purchase lease or otherwise acquire lands buildings easements collicries plant machinery and all other goods chattels or things used by the said Company for the purposes of its undertaking No obtain an Act or Acts of Paliament and all other authorities for enabling the Company to carry into effect all or any of the above objects And whereas by the said memorandum of association it was further agreed that the capital of the said Company should consist of cight thousand pounds divided into cight thousand shares of one pound each And whereas by the said articles of association provision has been made for the payment of dividends and for increasing the capital of the Company and also for the due management of the affairs of the said Company And whereas the said Company is desirous of being incor- porated and it is expedient that it should be incorporated accordingly and empowered to construct gas-works within the municipal boundaries of the city of Armidale but subject to the provisions hereinafter con- tained And whereas the Borough Council of the city of Armidale have at the request of the Armidale Gas Company (Limited) and in consideration of the benefits to arise from the establishment and car rying out of such works consented to the vesting of the said Company