Claridge's Patent Asphalt Company Act 1847

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ANNO DECIMO
VIC BEGINS
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Cap.
xxxvi.
An
Act for
regulating lee-al Proceedings
by
or
against
"
Claridges Patent Asphalte Company,"
and
for
granting certain Powers thereto.
w [8th June 1847-]
HEREAS
by
Letters Patent under the Great Seal
of
Great
Britain, bearing Date
at
Westminster
the
Twenty-fifth
Day
of
November
in the
First Year
of the
Reign
of Her
present Majesty Queen Victoria,
Her
said Majesty
did
grant unto
Richard Tappin Claridge Esquire,
his
Executors, Administrators,
and Assigns,
the
sole Privilege that the said Richard Tappin Claridge}
his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns,
or
such others
as he or
they should agree with, and no others, during
the
Term
of
Fourteen
Years from
the
Date
of the
said Letters Patent, should make,
use,
exercise,
and
vend within England
and
Wales
and the
Town
of
Berwick-upon-Tweed an Invention therein named
of a
Mastic, Cement,
or Composition applicable
to
paving and road-making, covering Build-
ings,
and various Purposes
to
which Cement, Mastic, Lead, Zinc,
or
Composition
are
employed:
And
whereas
by
other Letters Patent,
under
the
Seal appointed
by
the Act
of
Union
to be
used
in
place
of the Great Seal of Scotland, sealed
at
Edinburgh the Twenty-seventh
[Local']
5 M Day
Letters
Patent for
England
recited.
Letters
Patent for
Scotland
recited.
414
Letters
Patent for
Ireland
recited.
Licence to
use English
Patent
recited.
10° VICTORIA, Cap.xxxxL
Day of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, Her
said Majesty did grant unto the said Richard Tappin Claridge, his
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the sole Privilege that the
said Richard Tappin Claridge^ his Executors, Administrators, and
Assigns, and no others without Licence from him or them, during
the Term of Fourteen Years from the Date of the said Letters
Patent should make, use, exercise, and vend within Scotland the
said Invention: And whereas by other Letters Patent, under the
Gi*eat Seal of that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland called
Ireland,
bearing Date at DuHin the Twenty-
third Day of April in the First Year of the Reign of Her said
Majesty, Her said Majesty did grant unto the said Richard Tappin
Claridge the sole Privilege that he, his Executors, Administrators,
and Assigns, or such others as he or they should agree with, and
no others, during the Term of Fourteen Years from the Date of the
said Letters Patent should mate, use, exercise, and vend within
Ireland the said Invention: And whereas the several Specifications
required by the said several Letters Patent were respectively duly
enrolled: And whereas the said several firstly and secondly herein-
before recited Letters Patent respectively contain a Proviso for makin
void the same respectively if at any Time thereafter the same shoul
respectively become vested in or in Trust for more than the Number
of Twelve Persons or their Representatives at any one Time, as
Partners dividing or entitled to divide the Benefits or Profits to be
obtained by reason of the said Letters Patent respectively: And
whereas in the Month of March One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-eight a Number of Persons formed themselves into
an Association for the Purpose of manufacturing and laying down in
Great Britain and Ireland and the British Colonies and Possessions the
said Mastic, Cement, or Composition, and for all other Purposes to
which the Invention which is so protected by the said Letters Patent
might be found applicable, by and under the Name, Style, or Title of
" ^laridge's Patent Asphalte Company," and the said Company has
sometimes been called or known by the Name of " The Seyssel Asphalte
Company, '
Claridge'%
Patent': " And whereas by an Indenture
bearing Date the Second Day of November One thousand eight hundred
and thirty-eight, and made or expressed to be made between the
said Richard Tappin Claridge of the one Part, and John Wright^
Edward Blount, John Shewell, George Barret Lennard, Henry Walker
Wood,
Charles Bourjot, Samuel Ryland Phipson, Felix Spiers, and Ed-
ward Henry Darell of the other Part, for the Considerations therein
mentioned the said Richard Tappin Claridge did grant unto the
said Persons Parties thereto of the Second Part, their Executors,
Administrators, and Assigns, full and free Liberty, Licence, and
Authority to make, use, exercise, and vend the said Invention in
England and Wales and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tiveed during all
the Remainder of the said Term granted by the said firstly herein-
before recited Letters Patent; and by the said Indenture the said
Richard Tappin Claridge didv for
himself,
his Heirs, Executors, and
Administrators, covenant and agree with and to the said Persons
Parties thereto of the Second Part, their Executors, Administrators,
and Assigns, that if at any Time thereafter, within the Term of Years
granted by the said firstly herein-before recited Letters Patent, any
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