The railway shareholder's manual; or Practical guide to all the railways in the world

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Page 77 - shall mean the Lords of the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations : The word
Page 82 - ... particulars has to be gone through with respect to the constitution of the Company — the object, nature, and details of the new Company to be clearly specified. The Act then provides that all the Shareholders shall enter into a covenant to pay up all instalments, and the deed of the Company is to be registered. Power is given to the Shareholders to have a statement of the accounts produced to them every year. The Act also provides that the balance-sheet and auditors' reports are to be registered....
Page 72 - Commissioners, shall be paid by such Salaries as shall be from Time to Time appointed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, not exceeding the Sum of...
Page 76 - An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at West Drayton to Uxbridge in Middlesex," and " An Act for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at Maidenhead in Berkshire to the town of High Wycombe in the county of Buckingham ;" or to so much of an act passed in this session, intituled " An Act to authorize certain Extensions of the Line of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the act relating thereto...
Page 71 - An Act to attach certain conditions to the construction of future railways authorised or to be authorised by any Act of the present or succeeding sessions of Parliament ; and for other purposes in relation to railways.
Page 84 - An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a Public Nature ;' and ' An Act for consolidating in one Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.
Page 83 - ... certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly registered as a shareholder in the said Registry Office, it shall not be lawful for such person to dispose, by sale or mortgage, of such share, or of any interest therein, and that every contract for or sale or disposal of such share or interest shall be void, and that every person entering into such contract shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds...
Page 75 - Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that after the passing of this act it shall not be lawful (except as hereinafter excepted) to construct any railway for the conveyance of pas- on what ganpe senders on any gauge other than four feet eight inches and half JJ'jJJJ* sba...
Page 71 - And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of Railways, and for the Conveyance of Troops...

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