City of Dublin Steam Packet Company Act 1833
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1833 c. cxv |
ANNO TERTIO & QUARTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap,
cxv.
An Act to amend an Act passed in the Ninth Year
of the Reign of His late Majesty, for regulating
and enabling the City of Dublin Steam Packet
Company to sue and be sued.
[24th July 1833.]
W
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign
of His Majesty King
George
the Fourth, intituled An Act for
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G.
4.
c.66.
regulating and enabling the City of Dublin Steam Packet Com-
pany to sue and be
sued,
and
thereby
to
encourage
the Use of
Vessels propelled
by Steam in the Trade of Ireland, whereby, after reciting that that Part of
the United Kingdom called Ireland abounded in Cattle, Corn, and various
Agricultural Products, the speedy and regular Conveyance of which by
Steam Vessels to Great Britain has been found of great Advantage to
both Countries, and that from the peculiar Circumstances of
Ireland,
and
its Want of adequate inland Navigation, it is desirable to encourage the
Investment of Capital, so that the Produce of that Part of the United King-
dom may be conveyed at lower Rates and with more Facility and Ad-
vantage than heretofore, whereby the Employment of the Labouring
Classes in that Country will be promoted, and further reciting, that
certain Persons had entered into a Company or Copartnership for trading
by means of Steam Vessels between Dublin and Liverpool and other Sea
Ports,
according to the Regulations and under the Protection of an Act
of the Parliament of Ireland passed in the Twenty-first and Twenty-second
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Years of the Reign of His Majesty King
George
the Third, intituled Art
Act to promote Trade and Manufactures by regulating and encouraging
Partnerships, and that it was expedient to increase the Number of Partners
and the Capital or Joint Stock of the said Company, and that the Sums
subscribed towards the said Capital amounted to the Sum of Two hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand two hundred Pounds, and that the said
recited Act of the Parliament of Ireland was confined to Companies or
Copartnerships whose Joint Stock does not'exceed Fifty thousand Pounds,
and that it was desirable that the Members of the said Company should
have the same Protection as afforded by the said Act to the Companies to
whom its Provisions extend, certain Persons therein named, and all and
every other Person or Persons who should, according to the Conditions
and Restrictions in the said Act mentioned, be or become possessed of
any Shares of the Capital or Joint Stock of the said Company, their
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, were created and constituted
One Joint Stock Company by the Name and Description of " The City
of Dublin Steam Packet Company," for the Purposes, and with the
Powers, Privileges, and Authorities, in the said Act mentioned: And
whereas the full Amount of the Capital by the said Act of the Ninth
Year of His late Majesty's Reign authorized to be subscribed and raised
in furtherance of the Purposes of such Act has been paid up and invested
in the Undertaking thereby authorized, save and except the Sum of Five
hundred Pounds, which is still due to the Company by defaulting Sub-
scribers ; and the said Company have extended the Intercourse from the
City of Dublin to the River Shannon by the Grand and Royal Canals,
and further along the River Shannon from Athlone to Limerick, and
thence to the Sea, by Steam Navigation, and have thereby greatly increased
the Commerce and promoted the Prosperity of the adjacent Districts:
And whereas it is expedient still further to encourage such Undertaking,
and to make Regulations in accordance therewith, so as to promote the
Establishment of Manufactories in the inland Counties, and increase the
Facilities of Transport for Manufactures and agricultural and other Pro-
duce,
and thereby give Employment to many Districts, and enable the
said Company to carry the Objects of the said hereby recited Act more
fully into effect: And whereas it is desirable for that Purpose that they
should be authorized to increase their Capital,, and that further and other
Powers should be given to them ; but such Objects cannot be effectuated
without the Aid and Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please
Your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Consent and Advice of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
Recited Act assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said recited. Act
repealed, but 0f the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and all and every
*jIaU';rs
the Provisions, Powers, Penalties, Matters, and Things therein contained,
under It toTe sna^ be ant* tne same are hereby repealed : Provided nevertheless, that
good. every Purchase, Conveyance, Act, Matter, Proceeding, and Thing
already done, made, executed, commenced, or instituted by virtue and
in pursuance of the said Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His late
Majesty shall be and the same is hereby declared to be as good, valid,
and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the said Act
had not been hereby repealed.
II.
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