Banks amendment (1839) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO SECUNDO,

VICTORIA', REGINA,.

No. 9.

An Act to amend an Act intituled " An Act to regulate the Establishment of Banking Companies in the Colony of Western Australia ; and to enable the Proprietors of such Companies to sue and be sued in the name of any one of their Public Officers."

WHEREAS by the first part of the first section of the Act passed Preamble. AS

WHERE in the 8th Wm. IV., No. 1, intituled "An Act to regulate the Expedie t to amend the 8th

establishment of Banking Companies in the colony of Western Australia, Wm.	No. 1.
and to enable the Proprietors of such companies to sue and be sued in the name of any one of their Public Officers,' it is enacted, that it shall be

lawful for any number of persons, united in copartnership, to carry on the trade and business of Bankers in Western Australia, and to make and issue their Bills or Notes ,payable on demand or otherwise ; and whereas it has been deemed expedient to alter the same, by limiting to a certain extent the value or amount of each Bill or Note respectively :	Dasnhall not obme lawful	fox
Be it therefore enacted, that it 'shall not be lawful for any such copart-	to sue

nership or company to make or issue any Bill or Note payable on. notes o loss anlamtnan

demand or otherwise, for any smaller sum than Twenty Shillings ; and

that every other enactment, provision, clause, matter, and thing, con-

tained in the said Act, shall remain in full force and effect, as if this

Act had not been passed.

JOHN HUTT,

GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council

The 1st day of May, 1839,

WALKINSHAW COWAN,

Clerk to the Council.

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