Assam Company's Act 1865
WHEREAS the Assam Company (in this Act called the Society) were established as a Society or Partnership, with an English Domicile, by a Deed of Settlement dated the Thirty-first Day of January One thousand eight hundred and forty, with a Capital of Five hundred thousand Pounds in Ten thousand Shares of Fifty Pounds each, for the Cultivation of the Tea Plant in Assam and elsewhere in India, and the Manufacture of Tea the Growth thereof, and the Culture and Preparation of other Products there, ...