Oxford Improvement Act 1834

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1834 c. lxix
ANNO QUARTO & QUINTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
Cap.luix.
An Act to encourage the working of Mines and
Quarries in
Ireland,
and to regulate a Joint Stock
Company for that Purpose, to be called "The
West Cork Mining Company,"
[27th June 1834.]
W
HEREAS that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland
abounds in very valuable Mines and Minerals, consisting chiefly
of Copper Ore and Iron Ore, Slate, Manganese, Free Stone,
Paving Stone, and other Matters and Products, the several Mines, Quar-
ries,
Pits, Veins, and other Bearings whereof have not been worked for
Want of a sufficient Capital, and the same cannot be so worked to Advan-
tage to the Public without a large Capital: And whereas it would be of
great public Advantage to that Part of the said United Kingdom called
Ireland,
and particularly to the Labouring Classes
thereof,
that a Joint
Stock Company should be established for the Purpose of working the
said Mines, Quarries, Pits, Veins, and other Bearings, and of raising and
making merchantable the Copper, Lead, Iron, Coal, and other Minerals
and Metallic Substances, and also the Manganese, Slate, Gypsum, Fullers
Earth, Potters Clay, and other Matters and Products which may be ex-
tracted therefrom: And whereas the several Persons herein-after named
are desirous, at their own Costs and Charges, to effect the Purposes
aforefeaid, and have entered into a Subscription towards raising a Sum as
a Joint Stock or Fund for the Purpose of working certain Copper Mines
and Slate Quarries situate in the County of Cork in Ireland to or in which
they are or may hereafter become possessed, entitled, or interested, and
any other Mines or Works in Ireland of, to, or in which they may be-
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Subscribers
formed into
a Joint
Stock Com-
pany.
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come seised, possessed, entitled, or interested, and for the Purpose of
smelting the Ores to be raised from any of the said Mines, and selling
the same, or of otherwise preparing for Sale and selling the Ore, Metals,
Minerals, and Products to be raised therefrom, and for all the Purposes
incident to or connected with the said Mines and Premises, or the Business
aforesaid; and as such beneficial Purposes cannot be carried completely
into execution without the 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 Advice and Consent of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Right
Honourable George John Thicknesse Lord Audley, Edward Southwell
Ruthven, Joseph Pike, Samuel Jacob, William Webb Ellis, Joseph Jackson,
Thomas Pike, Jonathan Clark, Richard Warneford, James Hammon,
George
Prickett, John Harrison, John
Coles
Fourdrimer, Thomas M
Shad-
well, William Hall, Augustine Styles, Jeremiah Burroughs, Edward Cooke
Bourne, Thomas Roberts, John Charles Crook, James Gildart, Charles
Frazer, James Edgington, John Walker, Thomas Pulling, William Shaw,
William Freeman, Thomas B Jarvis, Ralph B Hankin, Richard
Rose, Robert
Forster,
Gedrge
Rooke, Harriet Elizabeth Winstanley, H
W Fourdrimer, E W George, Joseph Pike senior,
John Davis, and William Eagle, and their several Executors, Administra*
tors,
and Assigns, and all other Person and Persons, Bodies and Body
Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, who
shall, according to the Restrictions herein-after set forth, be possessed
of any Part of the Joint Stock herein-after mentioned, their several and
respective Executors, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, (so long
as they respectively, or their respective Executors, Administrators, Suc-
cessors, or Assigns, shall hold Shares in the said Joint Stock, and no
longer,) shall have full Power and Authority from Time to Time and at
all Times hereafter to search for and work, all such Mines and Mine
Works, Quarries, Pits, Beds, Veins, and other Bearings of Copper, Iron,
or Coal, and other Mineral Matters and Products in that Part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
Ireland,
as they or
any of them have or may become seised, possessed of, entitled to, or in*.
terested in ; and to smelt the Ores to be raised from any of the said
Mines, Mine Works, Quarries, and Premises, and to make Pig, Bar, and
other Iron, and to sell the same, or otherwise prepare for Sale and sell the
Ores,
Metals, Coals, Minerals, Matters, and Products to be raised or
gotten from the said Mines, Mine Works, Quarries, and Premises, or any
of them, and to transact all other Business incident to or connected with
the said Mines, Mine Works, Quarries, and Premises, and the working
of the same \ and for the Purposes aforesaid to dig, delve, sink, drive,
work, and make such Pits, Shafts, Adits, Levels, Soughs, Tunnels, and
other Workings as they shall think necessary and proper; and to make,
erect, and use any Steam or other Engines, Windlasses, Cranes, Whims,
Ropes, Ladders, Tools, Tackle, Materials, Machinery, and other Con*
vehiences, and to dig and raise Clay for making and burning of Bricks,
Tiles,
Gutters, and Ridges, or any other Matters, and to erect and build
any Erection or Buildings, and to make Charcoal or Coke; and also to
make arid use all convenient Roads, Railways, and other Ways, and to do
all other necessary or convenient Acts and Things for discovering, raising,
working, converting, bringing to gross, smelting, spalling, dividing, dress-
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