The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY

AT a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the PRO-
PRIETORS of this COMPANY, convened for the
purpose of determining. upon the creation of New Shares
instead of those forfeited, and upon the disposal of such New
Shares, held at the Merchants' Hall, in the City of Bristol,
on Thursday, the 29th of October, 1840,
JAMES GIBBS, Esq., in the Chair;

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The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Moved by JOHN M. GUTCH, Esq., and seconded by Taos
FUSSELL, Esq.,__

Ist. That in lieu and instead of 3863 Shares, which have
been forfeited and merged in this Company under the provi-
sions of the Act of Parliament, passed in her present Ma-
jesty's reign, intituled " An Act to amend and enlarge the
powers and provisions of the Acts relating to the Bristol and
Exeter Railway," 3863 New Shares of One Hundred Pounds
each shall be created and issued, as and with Sixty Pounds
per New Share paid up and credited, so as to be equal to the
present Shares with all the Calls made thereon paid up ; and
the same are hereby created accordingly. And, further, that
the price to be demanded for each of such New Shares, with
the said sum of Sixty Pounds credited, is hereby fixedi and
determined to be the sum of Twenty Pounds, payable in
moieties on the Sixth of February and the Sixth of March
next, and subject to the future Call of Forty Pounds at the
same times, and rateably and in proportion with future Calls
on the Original Shares.

Moved by JoHN BROWN, Esq., of Manchester, and seconded
by Taos. W. HILL, Esq.,
2nd. That in issuing the New Shares, now created, it is
the opinion of this Meeting that the same be first offered by
the Directors, in the proportion of one New Share to three
Original Shares, to all the Proprietors of the Original Shares
who shall have paid up Sixty Pounds per Share on or before
the Tenth of January next ; and that on payment of Twenty
Pounds per New Share, by the following instalments, viz.,
Ten Pounds on the Sixth of February and Ten Pounds on
the Sixth of March next, the Proprietor of each New Share
shall become entitled to the sum of Sixty Pounds stock in
the said Undertaking, with all profits, privileges, and advan-
tages thereon ; and that the remaining sum of Forty Pounds
(making One Hundred Pounds per Share) shall be paid
rateably and in proportion with future Calls on the Original
Shares, and at the same periods. And that all the New
Shares which are not taken by the Proprietors of Original
Shares, under this resolution, be issued and disposed of to
such persons, and in such manner, as the Directors think
advisable.
Moved by THOMAS KINGTON, Esq., and seconded by WM.

CROSS, Esq.,
3rd. That the thanks of this Meeting be respectfully pre-
sented to the Society of Merchant Venturers, for their kind-
ness in granting the use of their Hall.
JAMES GIBBS, Chairman.

The Chairman having quitted the Chair, it was taken by
C. B. FRIPP, Esq., when GEORGE JONES, Esq., moved,
and C. J. .W'rturnrcx, Esq., seconded, and it was

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Resolved by acclamation,
4th. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to
JAMES GIBBs, Esq., for his able and judicious conduct in
the Chair. . _

CHARLES BOWLES FRIPP