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

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1845 - 244 páginas

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Página xii - ... 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...
Página 255 - With a liberality truly patriotic, he erected for the convenience of Merchants, the ROYAL EXCHANGE; and in addition to his other extensive charities, founded and endowed Seven Lectureships, for the gratuitous instruction of the CITIZENS OF LONDON in the seven liberal sciences.
Página 256 - Edition, in 1 vol.Svo. (pp. 500), price 10s. 6d. bound in cloth . Tate's Modern Cambist. The Modern Cambist: forming a Manual of Exchanges in the various operations of Bills of Exchange and Bullion; with Tables of Foreign Weights and Measures, with their Equivalents in English, according to the practice of all Trading Nations. By WILLIAM TATE.
Página ix - An Act to attach certain conditions to the construction of future railways authorized or to be authorized by any Act of the present or succeeding Sessions of Parliament, and for other purposes in relation to railways.
Página xi - And be it enacted, that no Shareholder of any Joint-Stock Company completely registered under this Act shall be entitled to receive any dividends or profits, or be entitled to the remedies or powers hereby given to Shareholders, until he shall have executed the deed...
Página xii - ... 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.
Página 3 - PRACTICAL MERCANTILE CORRESPONDENCE. A Collection of Modern Letters of Business, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and an Appendix, containing a Dictionary of Commercial Technicalities, pro forma Invoices, Account Sales, Bills of Lading, and Bills of Exchange ; also an Explanation of the German Chain Rule.
Página xii - 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...
Página 2 - Tate's Bankers' Clearing-House. The System of the London Bankers' Clearances, and their Effects upon the Currency, explained and exemplified by Formula: of the Clearing-house Accounts. By W. TATE, Author of ' The Modern Cambist,
Página 1 - Investmentuegotiable in London: with some Account of the Internal Debts and Revenues of the Foreign States, and Tables for calculating the Value of the different Stocks, &c.

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