East Indian Railway Company Purchase Act 1879
WHEREAS by an indenture dated the ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven (which indenture is in this Act called the deed of settlement), the several persons parties thereto of the first part formed themselves into a company under the name of "the East Indian Railway Company," in this Act called the Company, for the purpose, amongst other things, of making, acquiring, and working railways in India; and it was by the deed of settlement provided that the capital of the Com...