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applying for registration is incorporated as a company under this act, and in the case of a limited company that it is limited, and thereupon such company shall be incorporated accordingly, and all provisions contained in any deed of settlement, act of Parliament, royal charter, or letters patent, or other instrument constituting or regulating the company, shall be deemed to be regulations of the company within the meaning of this act, and all the provisions of this act shall apply to such company in the same manner in all respects as if it had been originally incorporated under this act; subject, nevertheless, to the reservations hereinafter contained with respect to the existing rights of creditors and other persons; and subject to this proviso, that, except in so far as is hereinafter permitted, no company constituted by act of Parliament shall have power to alter any of the provisions contained in such act of Parliament, and no company constituted by royal charter or letters patent shall have power, by special resolution or otherwise, to alter any of the provisions contained in such charter or letters patent, without the sanction of the Board of Trade.

CXIV. Any existing company may, for the Power of purpose of obtaining registration with limited company to change name. liability, change its name by adding thereto the word "limited," or do any other act that may be necessary.

CXV. The certificate of incorporation given Certificate to to any existing company, in pursuance of this act, be evidence shall be conclusive evidence that all the requisi- with act. of compliance tions herein contained in respect of registration under this act have been complied with, and the date of such certificate shall be deemed to be the

Saving rights of creditors.

date at which the company is incorporated under this act.

CXVI. The registration of any existing company under this act shall not, nor shall any act of the company subsequent to such registration, prejudice any right which previously to such registration has, or which would if no such registration had taken place, have accrued to any creditor or other person against the company in its corporate capacity, or against any person then being or having been a member of such company, but every such creditor or other person shall be entitled to all such remedies against the company in its corporate capacity, and against every person then being or having been a member of such company, as he would have been entitled to in case such registration had not taken place.

SCHEDULE.

FORM A.

Memorandum of association of the "Eastern Steam
Packet Company, Limited."

1st. The name of the company is "The Eastern Steam Packet Company, Limited."

2d. The registered office of the company is to be established in England.

3d. The objects for which the company is established are, "the conveyance of passengers and goods in ships or boats between such places as the company may from time to time determine, and the doing all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above object."

4th. The liability of the shareholders is "limited."
5th. The nominal capital of the company is Two
hundred thousand pounds, divided into one thou-
sand shares of Two hundred pounds each.
WE, the several persons whose names and addresses

are subscribed, are desirous of being formed
into a company, in pursuance of this
memorandum of association, and we respec-
tively agree to take the number of shares
in the capital of the company set opposite
our respective names.

Section VII.

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Witness to the above signatures,

A.B., No. 13, Hute Street, Clerkenwell,
Middlesex.

TABLE B.

REGULATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE COMPANY.

SHARES.

(1.). No person shall be deemed to have accepted any share in the company unless he has testified his acceptance thereof by writing under his hand, in such form as the company from time to time directs.

(2.) The company may from time to time make such calls upon the shareholders in respect of all moneys unpaid on their shares as they think fit, provided that twenty-one days' notice at least is given of each call, and each shareholder shall be liable to pay the amount of calls so made to the persons and at the times and places appointed by the company.

(3.) A call shall be deemed to have been made at the time when the resolution authorising such call was passed.

(4.) If before or on the day appointed for payment, any shareholder does not pay the amount of any call to which he is liable, then such shareholder shall be liable to pay interest for the same at the rate of Five pounds per cent. per annum from the day appointed for the payment thereof to the time of the actual payment.

(5.) The company may, if they think fit, receive

Section IX.

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