The British and Foreign Railway Review, Volume 1, Issue 1 |
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Page 66 - ... to engage in or carry on any trade or dealing for gain or profit, or to deal in any goods, wares, or merchandise, unless in anv case in which such trading or dealing shall have been or shall be carried on by or on behalf of any number of...
Page 26 - November one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, that until such joint stock company shall have obtained a certificate of complete registration, and until any such subscriber or person shall have been duly registered as a shareholder...
Page 10 - ... which cannot be carried into execution without the authority of Parliament, in addition to and exclusive of such sum of ten shillings per hundred pounds, such further sum per hundred pounds on the amount of every such share as may be required by the standing orders of either House of Parliament to be deposited before the obtaining of an Act of Parliament for enabling the company to execute such work ; and also, To perform such other acts only as are necessary for constituting the company, or...
Page 182 - Observations on a General Iron Railway, or Land Steam Conveyance, to supersede the Necessity of Horses in all Public Vehicles : Showing its vast Superiority in every respect over the Present Pitiful Methods of Conveyance by Turnpike Roads and Canals.
Page 256 - ... and yield twelve or fifteen times as much profit, as the same area without irrigation. Railways will afford the means of diminishing the amount and the cost of the military establishments. Col. Warren, Town Major of the Fort St. William, stated before a Select Committee of the House of Commons: "The practicability of receiving intelligence from distant parts of the country in as many hours as at present it requires days and even weeks...
Page 201 - Church-street, in the parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, to the opposite bank of the said river, near Market-street, in the parish of St.
Page 92 - ... provided nevertheless, that, except as hereinafter specially provided, this Act shall not extend to any company for executing any bridge, road, cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, waterwork, navigation, tunnel, archway, railway, pier, port, harbour, ferry, or dock which cannot be carried into execution without obtaining the authority of Parliament...
Page 107 - The names of the members of the committee or other body acting in the formation of the company, their respective occupations, places of business (if any,) and places of residence, together with a written consent on the part of every such member or promoter to become such, and also a written agreement on the part of such member or promoter, entered into with some one or more persons aa trustees for the said company, to take one or more shares in the proposed undertaking, which must be signed by the...
Page 26 - Company shall have obtained a 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...
Page 109 - ... justices, or appearing shall refuse to be examined on oath and give evidence before such justices, then every such person shall forfeit for every such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, to be levied...