time before such company has obtained a certificate of complete registration under the said recited Act, to issue or publish or in any manner address or cause or, suffer to be addressed to the public, or to the subscribers or others, any prospectus or circular, handbill or advertisement, or other such document relative to the formation or modification of the company, containing any statement at variance with the particulars which may have been returned to the registrar of joint stock companies under the said recited Act or this Act, nor to issue, publish, or in any manner address or cause or suffer to be addressed to the public, or to the subscribers or others, any such prospectus, circular, handbill, or advertisement, containing any statements of particulars which are by the said recited Act or by this Act directed to be returned to the registrar of joint stock companies, until such particulars have been returned; and if any prospectus or circular, handbill or advertisement, be issued, published, or addressed to the public, or to the subscribers or others, contrary hereto, any promotor of the company shall be liable for each [*494] and every such issue or publication to forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

VIII. And be it enacted, that the penalties imposed by this Act shall be sued for, recovered, and applied in the same manner as penalties imposed by the said recited Act are therein directed to be sued for, recovered, and applied respectively.

IX. And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Parliament.

INDEX OF PRIVATE STATUTES.

OBTAINED BY INSURANCE COMPANIES.(a)

Aberdeen Fire and Life Assurance Company. See
"Scottish Provincial."

Accidental Death Insurance Company, and Rail-
way Insurance Company. Act for amalgamating.
Albion Insurance Company. Acts to enable the
company to enrol annuities.

Alliance British and Foreign Fire and Life Assur-

15 & 16 Vict. c.'56.

47 Geo. 3. (sess. 1.) c. 31.
47 Geo. 3. (sess. 2.) c. 86.
49 Geo. 3. c. 125.

ance Company. Enabled to sue and be sued in 5 Geo. c. 4. 137.
the name of their chairman.

Alliance British and Foreign Fire and Life Assur-

ance Company. Act for carrying into effect an

agreement entered into between this company and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 1.
the Suffolk and General County Amicable Insur-
ance Office.

Alliance Marine Assurance Company. Enabled to
sue and be sued, &c.

Alliance Marine Assurance Company. Repealing
Act of 6 Geo. 4., and granting powers.
Amicable Society for a perpetual Assurance Office.

6 Geo. 4. c. 202.

4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 34.

Act to enable the corporation to lend money upon 8 & 9 Vict. c. 8.
mortgage, &c.

Argus Life Assurance Company. Enabled to sue and

be sued in the name of any one director, or of the 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 76.
chairman or secretary.

Architects', Civil Engineers', Builders', and General
Fire and Life Insurance, Annuity, and Reversion-
ary Interest Company. Act to change the name
of, &c.

Atlas Assurance Company. Act to enable the com-

13 & 14 Vict. c. 10.

pany to sue and be sued in the name of the chair-54 Geo. 3. c. 79.
man or secretary.

Birmingham Fire Office. Act to enable the com-
pany to sue and be sued, &c.

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50 Geo. 3. c. 90.

(a) The Acts in this Index, prior to the 2 & 3 Vict., have been taken from "Var-
don's Index of Local and Personal and Private Acts, from 1798 to 1839." The
author has omitted some Acts obtained by companies which he understands to
have ceased to exist, and is apprehensive that he may have retained some others;
but he has thought it better to run the risk of mentioning some expired Acts than
of omitting any that may be still in existence.

Birmingham Life Assurance and Annuity Office.
Act to enable the company to enrol annuities.
Britannia Life Assurance Company. Act for regu-
lating, &c.

British Annuity Company, &c. Act to enable the
company to sue and be sued, &c.
British Commercial Insurance Company. Act en-
abling the company to sue and be sued in the
name of a director; Act amending the above,
and giving power to sue and be sued in the name
of the secretary.

British Empire Mutual Life Assurance Company.
Act for the better regulation of the company, to
enable it to take and hold property, &c.

50 Geo. 3. c. 89.

4 & 5 Vict. c. 9.

5 Geo. 4 c. 158.

2 & 3 Will. 4 c. 38. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 84.

15 & 16 Vict. c. 53.

British Guarantee Association. Act to incorporate. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 375.

Caledonia Insurance Company. Act of incorpora

tion, for enabling the Company to sue and be 9 & 10 Vict. c. 45. sued, to take and hold property, for confirming

the regulations of, and for other purposes.

Church of England Life and Fire Assurance, Trust,

and Annuity Company. Act to enable the com- 4 & 5 Vict. c. 92. pany to sue and be sued in the name of an officer.

City of Glasgow Life Assurance and Reversionary

Interest Company. Act to enable the company (5 & 6 Vict. c. 65. to sue and be sued, &c.

Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Com

pany. Act to enable the company to sue and be

sued, to alter certain provisions of their deed of 13 & 14 Vict. c. 9. constitution, and for other purposes.

Colonisation Assurance Company. Act of incorpo-13 & 14 Vict. c. 21.

ration.

Commercial Insurance Company (Dublin.) To sue

in the name of their secretary.

48 Geo. 3. c. 96.

County Fire Office. Act for suing in name of the 57 Geo. 3. c. 11. managing or any other director.

District Fire Insurance Company of Birmingham. Act to incorporate by the name of "The District Fire Insurance Company," for enabling the said company to sue and be sued, and for other purposes. Dublin Commercial Insurance Company. To sue in the name of the secretary.

10 & 11 Vict. c. 4.

48 Geo. c. 96.

Dublin Marine Insurance Company. For suing in 53 Geo. 3. c. 211. the name of the secretary.

Eagle Insurance Company. Act to enable the

company to sue in the name of the secretary, 53 Geo. 3. c. 207. and to enrol annuities.

Economic Life Assurance Society. Enabled to sue and be sued in the name of one director or trustee.

Edinburgh Life Assurance Company. Act to enable the company to sue and be sued in the name of an officer; Act for conferring on the said company certain of the privileges of a corporate body, as to sue and to be sued, to hold property, and for other purposes.

European Life Insurance and Annuity company.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 66.

3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 65. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 76.

Act to regulate legal proceedings by and against, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 48. &c.

Family Endowment Society. Proprietors of, enabled to sue and be sued by one director, &c.

6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 21.

Farmers and General Fire and Life Insurance and

Loan and Annuity Company. Act to enable the 3 & 4 Vict. c. 95. company to sue and be sued, &c.

Forth Marine Insurance Company. Act to enable the company to sue and be sued, &c.

General Life and Fire Assurance Company Act changing to this name that of the Protestant

5 & 6 Vict. c. 99.

Dissenters' and General Fire and Life Assu-10 & 11 Vict. c. 1.
rance Company, and extending to the new com-
pany the powers of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 20.

General Reversionary and Investment Company.
An Act to enable the company to sue and be

sued, for facilitating the holding and transfer of 14 & 15 Vict. c. 130.
the property by and from the present and future
trustees, and for other purposes.
Glasgow Marine Insurance Company. Act to ena-
ble the company to sue and be sued, &c.
Globe Insurance Company. Act for incorporating.
Globe Insurance Company. For enrolling annui-

ties by the company.

Globe Insurance Company. To enable the com

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6 & 7 Vict. c. 107.

39 Geo. 3. c. 83. 47 Geo. 3. (sess. 1.) c. 30. 47 Geo. 3. (sess. 2.) c. 87. 49 Geo. 3. c. 123.

pany to alter and amend some of the provisions 7 & 8 Vict. c. 39. of its deed of settlement.

Guarantee Society. Act for regulating legal pro-5 & 6 Vict. c. 64. ceedings by and against.

Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company. Act

to enable the company to sue and be sued to alter certain provisions of the deed of settlement and to give further powers.

Imperial Insurance Company. For suing in name of chairman or any other member of company. Imperial Insurance Company. Act to enable the company to alter some of the provisions of its deed of settlement, and better regulate the company.

Indemnity Mutual Marine Assurance Company.

13 & 14 Vict. c. 25.

54 Geo. 3. c. 12.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 66.

Act for regulating legal proceedings by and 5 & 6 Vict. c. 67.
against.

Kent Fire Insurance Company. Enabled to sue
and be sued in the name of their secretary.
Kent Fire Insurance Company. Acts dissolving

company.

5 Geo. 4. c. 80.

5 Geo. 4. c. 40.
J7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 60.

Licensed Victuallers' and General Fire and Life
Assurance Company. Enabled to sue and be 7 Will. 4. c. 12.
sued in the name of their chairman, &c.

Licensed Victuallers' and General Fire and Life'

Assurance Company. Act to change the name

to "The Monarch Fire and Life Assurance Com- 13 & 14 Vict. c. 18. pany," and for enabling the company to sue and

be sued.

Liverpool Fire and Life Assurance Company. En

abled to sue and be sued in the name of their 6 & 7 Will. 4. c. 119. chairman.

Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company. To 10 & 11 Vict. c. 268. change the name, and for other purposes.

Liverpool Marine Assurance Company. Enabled

to sue and be sued in the name of the chairman 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 1. or of one director.

London Life Association. Act for enrolling annui- 47 Geo. 3. c. 32.

ties.

London Assurance. Act to enable the corporation11 Geo. 4. c. 74.
to purchase annuities upon or for lives, &c.
London Assurance. Act to consolidate the stock
and powers of the corporation of "The London
Assurance of Houses and Goods from Fire,"
with the stock and powers of the corporation of
"The London Assurance," and to confer on the
last-named corporation the powers of "The Lon-
don Assurance Loan Company," and to give
additional powers to the London Assurance.

Marine Insurance Company. Enabled to sue and
be sued, &c

16 Vict. c. 1.

Monarch. See "Licensed Victuallers."

National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. En-

abled to sue and be sued in the name of the 1 & 2 Vict c. 92.
chairman, secretary, or one director.

National Mercantile Life Assurance Society. En-

abled to sue and be sued in the name of a nomi- 10 & 11 Vict. c. 269.
nal party, and for other purposes.

Neptune Marine Insurance Company. For regulat 4 & 5 Vict. c. 93.
ing legal proceedings for and against.

North British Insurance Company. Act to enable
the company to purchase annuities, to take and
hold property, invest money upon mortgage, and
for other purposes.

Northern Assurance Company. Act for incorpo-
rating under this name the North of Scotland

8 & 9 Vict. c. 28.

Fire and Life Assurance Company, for enabling 11 & 12 Vict. c. 46.
the company to sue and be sued, to take, hold
and transfer property, for confirming the rules
and regulations, and for other purposes.

North Wales and Shropshire Assurance Company.

Enabled to sue and be sued in the name of the 7. Will. 4. c. 87.
managing director.

Norwich Union Society for the Insurance of Lives

and Survivorships. Act to enable the company 53 Geo. 3. c. 215.

to sue and be sued in the name of the secre-

tary, &c.

Ocean Assurance Company. Enabled to sue and
be sued in the name of the chairman or one
director.

Patrick, St., Assurance Company of Ireland. Ena-

4 & 5 Will. 4. c. 9.

abled to sue and be sued in the name of the 5 Geo. 4. c. 160.
secretary, or of one member.

Patriotic Assurance Company of Ireland. Enabled

to sue and be sued in the name of their secre-
tary, or of one member.

Phoenix Assurance Company of London. Act to

5 Geo. 4. c. 154.

enable the company to sue and be sued in the 53 Geo. 3. c. 212.
name of the secretary, &c.

Presbyterian Widows' Fund Association. Act for

incorporating the society, for providing annui-15 & 16 Vict. c. 112.
ties, &c.