A reference book to the incorporated railway companies of Ireland |
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20 Shares 50 Acres additional Vote appoint receiver Armagh Athlone Authorised Bandon Belfast Junction Board of Trade Call Canal Capital Carlow cent chains Charleville Clonmel Coleraine Commissioners Committee Compulsion Constitution Construction Cork County Directors District Ditto by loan Drogheda Dublin and Belfast Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Galway Dundalk Enniskillen Extension Extra Land furlongs Galway George Henry Ireland Irish Railways John Macneill July 16 July 21 Kells Kilkenny Leinster and Munster Length Limerick Railway loan or mortgage London Londonderry Maximum gradient Meetings miles minimum curve Monaghan Mullingar Mullingar Scheme Navan Newry paid Parliament pass passengers Portadown Portion proposed purchase qualifications Quorum R. A. AUG R.A. July Railway Communication Railway Companies Railway Scheme Railways in Ireland raised by Shares Royal Assent SCALE OF VOTING Shareholders Shares Ditto Southern and Western Thomas Tipperary Town Traffic Tullamore Ulster Vote additional Waterford and Limerick Western Railway Wexford Whole Shares Wicklow William
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Page 82 - ... be paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of...
Page 78 - Company are to keep a registry of the Shareholders with the number of Shares held by each, and the amount paid on each, which register the Shareholders are to be entitled to inspect.
Page 80 - Such Train shall start at an Hour to be from Time to Time fixed by the Directors, subject to the Approval of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations...
Page 41 - ... formed, opening fresh Resources to the Industry and Enterprise of the trading Portion of the Community ; while an Object of no less Consideration would be immediately attained, in rendering agricultural Produce, which may be called the grand Staple of this Country, at the same Time more profitabe to the Producers, and accessible on easier terms to the principal Purchasers and Consumers.
Page 84 - Whether by such bill it is proposed to constitute any branch railway, or any other work in connexion with the proposed railway : Fourthly, Whether any plans, maps, and sections of any such proposed railway which, pursuant to any order of either House of Parliament, shall have been deposited in their office, are correct, and if not, in what particulars and how far they are incorrect, and whether or not, in the opinion of the commissioners, such errors as they shall find are material to the object...
Page 79 - Shareholders from voting by proxy ; and also, to vote in the choice of Directors, and of every auditor to be elected by the Shareholders ; subject nevertheless to the provisions of this Act, and of the deed of settlement of the Company or other special authority, so far as such provisions shall either regulate or restrict the exercise of such powers, but not so as to deprive such Shareholders thereof...
Page 82 - ... transfer such Government Stocks or Funds into the Name of the Officer or Person ; and such Transfer or Deposit shall be directed by such Clerk of the Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments, or such Clerk of the Private Bill Office of the House of Commons, as the Case may be, in lieu of Payment of so much of the Sum of Money required, to be deposited as aforesaid as the same Exchequer Bills or other the Government Stocks or Funds will extend to satisfy at the Price at which the same were originally...
Page 80 - Purchase of the said average Profits is an inadequate Rate of Purchase of such Railway, reference being had to the Prospects thereof, to require that it shall be left to Arbitration, in case of Difference, to determine what (if any) additional Amount of Purchase Money...
Page 79 - ... and that for better protecting purchasers it shall be the duty of the Directors of the Company by whom certificates of shares are issued to state on every such certificate the date of the first complete registration of the Company, as before provided ; and that if any such Director or officer knowingly make a false statement in that respect, then he shall be liable to the pains and penalties of a misdemeanor.
Page 80 - ... pounds for every hundred pounds of such capital stock : Provided also, that such revised scale shall not be again revised or such guarantee withdrawn, otherwise than with the consent of the company, for the further period of twenty-one years.