The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-05 00:00:00

PROSPECTUS

LIVERPOOL ALE. AND PORTER BREWERY.
CAPITAL £200,000, IN 10,000 Stisnhs of £2O EACH.
DneosiT £l.
rpHE decided advantages possessed by Joint Stock Compe-
l_ nies, in ail large undertakings, have become so well and so
generally known that little needs be said to recommend them.
The publicity of their proceedings, and the sound general
principles by which they are governed, afford the best guarantee
of their solidity;. but their chief recomthendati is, that they
enable men of moderate capital to particip in those profits
hitherto enjoyed exclusively by the weal
lf, therefore, an article of universa mption, (arid in the
manufacture of which a large capital quired,) can be proved
to yield a great and steady profit, e under the ordinary ma 7
nagement of individual capital, it is asonable toexpect greater
advantages from the employment of a-Joint Stock Fund, accom-
panied by the greater economy which always attends manufac.
turing upon an extensive
The Brewing of Ale and Porter has hitherto been carried on
in Liverpool.hy comparatively small concerns; and the quality
of the latter article especially, has rendered it necessary to im-
port largely from London and Dublin, the freight necessarily
operating as -a heavy' pix upon it.
It is calculated that'Ahe consumption of the town alone is
600,000 barrth per annum, to say nothing of the immense Fo-
reign Trade of Which the Article is capable.
It is therefore-proposed to establish a Joint Stock Company,
to be called " THE LIVERPOOL ALE AND PORTER
BREWERY,"- having a subscribed Capital of £200,000, in
10,000 Shares of £2O each.
That the affairs of the Company shall be under the manage-
ment of a Board of Directors, (holding not less than 20 Shares
each,) to be elected by the Proprietors at large, of whom one-
third part shill go out of (Ace aontialiv,
That Aolitors (not being Directors) shall be annually elected
by the Proprietors.
That every holder of five shares shall have one vote.; of twenty
shares two votes; and one vote more for every additional twenty
shares; but no Shareholder to have more than six votes.
That each Shareholder shall pay a deposit of £1 per share
upon allotment, and sin h furtlvr calls as. the-Directors ,may re-,
quire, not exceeding £5 per share at any one time.
That in preparing the Deed of Settlement it Shall be provided
that, iF ever the Company shall hise one-fourth of its paid-up
Capital, the Directors shall call a Meeting of the Proprietors,
and lay a statement of the affairs before them, when the Com-
pany shall be dissolved; but if any of the Shareholders are still
desirous to carry it on, they shalt he at liberty to do so, after.
paving the dissentients the value (properly estimated) of their
Shares.

It will be the interest of those Licensed Victuallers who oc•
cupy free houses to become SharehAders, and thereby Secure
the brewer's profit in addition to their own.

A Provisiun4 Committee will be immediately formed, and
in the rneln tiine applications for Scares to bo !nide (post-paid)
to Mr. WILLIAm DAvEiNp.wr, Solicitor, Druid-court; or to
Mr. WILLIAM FULLER, Share Broker, 66, Castle-street, Liver-
pool.
30th March., 1836.

LONDON, SALISBURY, &c.. RA WAY. -
QUB SC RIBERS are requested to p t . DEPOSITS into
the BAN K of LIVERPOOL, c r before TitutisoxY
next, the 7th of April instant, after w eh day ail Appiicatious
will be conditional. G. ATKINSON and TOWN LE Y.