New South Wales: Union Assurance Company Act 1838 2 Vic (NSW)

Usion ASSURANCE Company, Preamble. 7 Gul IV. Union Assurance Company Act. Pew South Wales. ANNO SECUNDO VICTORIA REGINA. He HK KK HK KK KK KH EK EK HK EK An Act to amend an Act intituled " An Act to " enable the Proprietors of a certain Company "carried on in the Town of Sydney in the " Colony of New South Wales under the name " style and firm of ' The Union Assurance " Company of Sydney' to sue and be sued in * the name of the Chairman of the said Company " for the time being and for other purposes ** therein mentioned." [17th August, 1838.] « rN HEREAS by an Act of the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council passed in the seventh year of His late Majesty intituled "An Act to enable the Proprietors "of a certain Company carried on in the Town of Sydney in the " Colony of New South Wales under the name style and firm of "<« The Union Assurance Company of Sydney' to sue and be sued "in the name of the Chairman of the said Company for the time " being and for other purposes therein mentioned" it was recited That several persons had formed themselves into a company or socicty established at Sydney under the name style or firm of "The Union Assurance Company of Sydney" for certain purposes therein mentioned And that it would be convenient and just that persons having demands against the said company should be entitled to sue some member thereof in place and stead of the whole And it was among other things enacted That all actions suits or proceed- ings to be commenced instituted or prosecuted at law or in equity against the said company should be commenced instituted or prose- cuted against the Chairman for the time being of the said company as the nominal defendant for and on behalf of the said company And it was also enacted That execution upon any decree or judgment in any action suit petition or other proceedings obtained against the Chairman for 1838. 2° VIC. 65 Cnion Assurance Company. for the time being might be issued against and levied upon the goods and chattels lands and tenements of any member or members whomsoever of the said company for the time being in like manner and not other- wise than as if such decree or judgment had been obtained against such member or members personally and whereas it is deemed expedient and necessary that the names residences and descriptions of all the members of the said company should be recorded for public information Be Names of the then it enacted by His Excellency the Governor with the advice of the pen beeen Legislative Council that the Secretary or other principal officer for the their places of abode time being of such company shall within fifteen days from the first to be recordetl on day of January in each year cause a true list of the names of all the the Registrar of the then existing members of such company with their respective places Wie tteen days of abode and description to be recorded on oath in the office of the trom the first day of Registrar of the Supreme Court and that the same shall be open for Year Lists to beopen inspection at all reasonable times by any person requiring the same tr inspection at all » "17° v oi c + reasonable hours. on payment of a fec of one shilling and if any such Secretary or prin- cipal officer of the said company shall fail to cause such list to be recorded in manner as aforesaid he shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds to be recovered by action of debt in the said Supreme Court by any person or persons suing for the same. 2. And be it enacted That every person whose name shall be so Persons whose names + 4 . are so recorded to recorded shall be considered a member of the said company and be te considered mom- liable to be sued as such until a new list of the members' names shall >e's of the company : : . : . until new list made be recorded as aforesaid or until he shall have given notice of his out or notice given retirement in the New South Wales Government Gazette. in the Government I ANNO