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Form 51. and mining rights, known as The Mine, situate near in the county of in the state of -, in the United States of America, with the mill, orehouses, and other buildings, erected on the said land, and the plant, machinery, stock, implements, and effects used in or about or belonging to the said mine, mill, orehouses, and other buildings, together with the business of the said mine and the goodwill thereof.

2. To work the Mine and any other mines of the company, and to crush, smelt, reduce, and amalgamate the ore, and render marketable the produce and develop the resources of the same mines, and to crush, smelt, reduce, and amalgamate the produce of any mines, whether belonging to the company or not.

3. To construct, or aid in and subscribe towards the construction, maintenance, and improvement of roads, tramways, railways, docks, piers, wharves, viaducts, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, quartz-mills, saw-mills, and other buildings and works which may be necessary or convenient for the purposes of the company.

4. To procure the company to be incorporated in the United States of America or elsewhere.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (10), (14), (22), and (23).

Form 52. Patents.

1. To acquire all or any of the following letters patent, namely, &c. 2. To acquire any inventions capable of being used for any of the purposes for which the inventions specified in such letters patent can be used, and to acquire any letters patent or concessions of an analogous character whether British or Foreign, granted in respect of any such inventions.

3. To acquire licences to work and use any inventions which the company is authorised to acquire.

4. To work, develop, exercise, and promote the user of any inventions in which the company is interested, whether as owner, licensee or otherwise, and in particular by carrying on any businesses which may be conducive thereto, and by granting licences.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (10), and (14).

Form 53.

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Pier.

1. To erect and maintain a pier at or near

in the county

2. To erect all such buildings and conveniences in connection with the said pier as may be deemed expedient.

* As to this word, see Attorney-General v. Mayor, &c., of Cambridge, L. R. 6 H. L. 316.

3. To charge and levy tolls and fees for the user of the said pier. Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (7), (10), and (14).

Under the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 45), and the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act (25 Vict. c. 19), and the Harbour Transfer Act, 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 69), the Board of Trade can make provisional orders authorising the construction of any pier, harbour, quay, wharf, jetty, on or near the shore of the sea, provided that the estimated expense does not exceed 100,000l. Promoters desiring incorporation are required to register themselves as a company under the Companies Act, 1862, and many such companies have been registered. The rules of the Board as to applications can be obtained from the publishers of this work.

Form 53.

1. To provide at a hall and other suitable rooms, buildings, and Form 54. places, and to permit the same or any part thereof to be used on such Public hall. terms as the company shall think fit, for any purposes, public or private, and in particular for public meetings, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dinners, theatrical performances, and other entertainments, and for reading, writing, and newspaper rooms, libraries, baths, laundries, refreshment rooms, dressing rooms, shops, business offices and residences.

2. To furnish the company's property with such furniture, implements, machinery, and conveniences as may be thought desirable with a view to the sale, letting, or user thereof.

3. To provide gardens, greenhouses, and grounds for recreation and amusement.

4. To carry on the business of an hotel and restaurant proprietor and wine merchant.

5. To provide amusement, entertainment, and instruction for shareholders of the company and others.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (7), (10), (14), and (21) to (23).

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1. To acquire the benefit of a concession, granted by the Republic Form 55. of, to, for the construction of a railway from Railway, 2. To construct, maintain, and work the railway authorised by the said foreign. concession, and any other railways in the Republic of, which the company may be authorised to construct.

3. To construct, or contribute to the cost of constructing, any docks, wharves, warehouses, telegraphs, buildings, or works requisite or convenient for the purposes of the company, or calculated to promote the interests thereof.

4. To charter, purchase, and employ, vessels in connection with any railway of the company.

5. To purchase, manufacture, maintain, and hire, plant, stores, machinery, rolling-stock, and other property convenient for the purposes of the company.

Form 55.

6. To convey passengers, merchandise, goods, and chattels, upon the railways, or in the vessels of the company; to take and levy tolls, rates, and charges, and generally to carry on the business of a railway company and a telegraph company in all their respective branches.

7. To enter into contracts with other companies, as to running powers, interchange of traffic, or otherwise, in relation to the development of the property of the company.

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8. To procure the company to be incorporated in the said Republic

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), and (10), (14), (22) and (23).

For another Form, see Mills v. The Northern Ry. of Buenos Ayres Co., 5 Ch. 622.

Form 56. School.

Form 57.

Iron ship building.

Form 58. Shipowners.

Schools [or a school], for the

1. To establish and carry on at education upon the best system of boys [and girls]. Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, except (1) to (5), (7), (10), (14), (15), (20), (22) and (23).

1. To build, equip, and repair ships and vessels of all kinds; and to manufacture and repair steam-engines, boilers, and machinery, and other appliances and things used in or about or for the purposes of shipbuilding.

2. To carry on the business of shipbuilding in all its branches.

3. To construct and maintain buildings, manufactories, and works, and to excavate and form graving and other docks.

4. To acquire, by purchase or otherwise, lands, yards, buildings, quays, ships, vessels, plant and machinery, and generally any real and personal property for the purposes of the company.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (10), (14), (22) and (23).

1. To purchase, build, charter, equip, load on commission, sail, repair, let out to hire and trade with, steam or other ships, boats and vessels of all kinds.

2. To advance money on loan with or without security.

3. To purchase coal, timber, and other merchandise or produce, for the purpose of freighting any vessels belonging to or in which the company is interested.

4. To carry on the business of a shipowner in all its branches.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), (10), (14), (22), and (23).

The onerous liabilities attaching to the owners of ships (e.g., for damage caused

by collision) frequently induce such persons to form a limited company to acquire Form 58. and work their vessels. In order still further to diminish risk of loss, it is now a common practice where the same persons own several vessels, to form a company for each vessel. In such case the company takes the name of the vessel, e.g., "The Steamship Egeria, Limited," and the shares are all fully paid up, so that the shareholders are under no personal liability. See further, supra, p. 32, as to "Private Companies."

1. To establish a skating rink, at

in the county of

2. To carry on the business of a skating rink proprietor. 3. To manufacture and sell roller and other skates. 4. To purchase, &c. [Ut supra, p. 67, No. (11), concluding thus: "and in particular any lands, buildings, easements, patents, inventions, and licences."]

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), and (10), (14), (22), and (23).

Form 59.

Skating Rink.

1. To purchase, prepare, spin, manufacture, and deal in cotton yarn Form 60. and other fibrous products and materials, and to carry on the business Spinning of spinning, bleaching, dyeing, printing and finishing cotton and other company. goods of the like kind.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), and (10), (14), (22), and (23).

1. To purchase the Sugar Works, carried on at, in the Form 61. Presidency of, in India, together with the lands, buildings, ma- Sugar chinery and plant, belonging to or employed in connection with the said works, &c. Sugar Works.

2. To carry on the business or trade of a sugar manufacturer and refiner.

3. To purchase sugar, rum, and other produce, in the neighbourhood of the said works.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), and (10), (14), (22), and (23).

1. To establish and maintain music-halls and other places of public Form 62. entertainment, at which no alcoholic liquors will be sold, and also to Temperance improve and elevate the character of public entertainments in the music-halls. establishments of the company and elsewhere.

Add common Forms (6), (8), (9), (11), (13), (16) to (19), and (24) to (27). Supra, p. 67, et seq.

1. To protect the members of the society against persons whose cha- Form 63.

Form 63. racter or circumstances render them unworthy of mercantile credit, and to facilitate the prompt and economical realisation of the estates of bankrupts and persons making or seeking to make arrangements or compositions with their creditors.

Trade protection.

Form 64.

Tramways.

Such societies as this have been treated as within the meaning of s. 23 of the Act of 1867, and the Board of Trade has accordingly, on the usual conditions, granted licences for registration without the word “Limited" as part of the name. supra, pp. 49, 64.

The articles, infra, Form 70, can be readily adapted.

Such societies are usually limited by guarantee, say, 17. or 5l. per member.

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2. To diffuse information as to sound principles of trading, and to impress upon the mercantile community the necessity of maintaining an intimate knowledge of the state of their affairs by periodical investigations and by keeping correct sets of business books.

3. To procure information for members as to the standing and responsibility of parties with whom they propose to transact business. 4. To collect debts for members upon such terms as may be determined.

5. To communicate with Chambers of Commerce and other mercantile and public bodies throughout the United Kingdom, and concert and promote measures for the protection of trade and traders.

6. To consider, originate, and support improvements in the commercial laws.

7. To subscribe to, become a member of, and co-operate with any other association, whether incorporated or not, whose objects are altogether or in part similar to those of this society, and to procure from and communicate to any such association such information as may be likely to forward the object of the society.

Add common Forms, (11), (16), (19), (24), (25), and (26), supra, p. 67, et seq.

1. To make, equip, work, and maintain tramways in the city of, and the vicinity thereof.

2. To run omnibuses and vans in connection with any tramways belonging to or worked by the company, and generally to carry on the business of an omnibus proprietor and carrier of passengers and goods.

3. To manufacture, buy, sell, and deal in tramway carriages and other chattels and things used, or which may at any time hereafter be used in the making, maintenance, equipment, and working of tramways.

4. To enter into contracts with any person or company as to interchange of traffic, running powers, or otherwise, which the company may think calculated to develop its business.

Add common Forms, supra, p. 67, et seq., except (1) to (5), and (10) and (14).

Under the Tramways Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 78), the Board of Trade can make provisional orders in certain cases authorising the construction of tramways.

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