New South Wales: The City Bank of Sydney Act 56 Vic (NSW)

tue Cer Bask or At) Act to alter the title of "The City Bank" SYDNEY. Preamble. to that of "The City Bank of Sydney." [16th March, 1893. | ILEREAS a certain joint stock company called * The City Bank" has been established, and is carrying on the business of banking subject to certain rules, vegulations, and. provisions contained in a certain indenture or deed of settlement bearing date the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, being the deed of settlement of the said company: And whereas by an Act of the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales passed in the twenty-seventh year of Her present Majesty's reign, intituled " dz Act to incorporate the Shareholders of a certain Banking Company called * The City Bank, " and for other purposes therein mentioned the said City Bank was incorporated for the purposes and with the powers therein contained: And whereas by the terms of the seventh section of the said recited Act the provisions therein contained for empowering "The City Bank" to make, issue, circulate, and re-issue bank notes or bills in manner therein provided, were thereby limited to a term of twenty-one years to commence as therein mentioned: And whereas by the first section of "The City Bank Extension Act of 1884" the said provisions were extended for a period of twenty-one years from the passing thereof: And whereas at a special general meeting of the shareholders duly held on the nineteenth day of July last past, under the provisions contained in clauses three, four, and six of Part IV of the said deed of settlement, a resolution was duly passed to amend clause one of Part I of the said indenture or deed of settlement so as to alter the name of the said corporation py inserting therein the words "The City Bank of Sydney" in lieu of the words "The City Bank," and authority was thereby also given to the directors of the said corporation to apply to Parliament to alter the name of the said corporation accordingly: And whereas the said resolution was in accordance with the third provision of Part IV of the said indenture or deed of settlement duly confirmed at a general mecting of 1893. 56° VIC. 30 Hay Atheneum Trustees Enabling. of the said sharcholders on the seventeenth day of January last past : And whereas in conformity with the said resolution the directors of the said corporation have made application to Parliament for an enactment whereby the name of the corporation shall be so changed, and that for that purpose and matters incidental thereto it may be provided as hereinafter contained, and it is deemed expedient to comply with such application: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 1. From and after the passing of this Act the name of the Corporation to be corporation "The City Bank" shall be «The City Bank of Sydney," Hank of Senos" and all the provisions of the said recited Acts, except so far as they are altered by this Act, shall apply to the said corporation, and subject to sueh change of name as aforesaid, the said recited Acts and this Act shall be read as one Act, and everything lawfully done or com- meneed previously to such passing under the said recited Aets may be acted upon, continued, completed, and sued on in the said new name of the corporation as if done or commenced under this Act. 2. This Act may be cited as "The City Bank of Sydney Act.'' Short title.