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... North and South America — The real prizes kept abroad -Chilly Mine , and other Venezuelan ventures -Joint - Stock Company for promoting Joint - Stock Companies and its aims ... 39 VIII . — THE INDIAN GOLD - MINING ...
... North and South America — The real prizes kept abroad -Chilly Mine , and other Venezuelan ventures -Joint - Stock Company for promoting Joint - Stock Companies and its aims ... 39 VIII . — THE INDIAN GOLD - MINING ...
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GEOLOGY is wooed , the earth's crust is broken and the veil drawn aside , so that the investor may peer into the interior and behold the gold and silver and tin and copper and coal , that only await the magic and homeopathic touch of ...
GEOLOGY is wooed , the earth's crust is broken and the veil drawn aside , so that the investor may peer into the interior and behold the gold and silver and tin and copper and coal , that only await the magic and homeopathic touch of ...
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Millions in gold have been taken " from this hill , and there are millions in it yet . -See “ Fossett's “ Colorado , page 324. ” . The capital of this company was £ 205,000 , of which £ 150,000 was to be presented to the vendors .
Millions in gold have been taken " from this hill , and there are millions in it yet . -See “ Fossett's “ Colorado , page 324. ” . The capital of this company was £ 205,000 , of which £ 150,000 was to be presented to the vendors .
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There is probably no richer area of ground in the world than Cornwall , not " even excepting gold - bearing regions ; and , as gold mines “ in India and America are too far off to allow shareholders " to satisfy themselves as to the ...
There is probably no richer area of ground in the world than Cornwall , not " even excepting gold - bearing regions ; and , as gold mines “ in India and America are too far off to allow shareholders " to satisfy themselves as to the ...
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It says much for promoters that , for the most part , they steer clear of Scriptural allusions ; and , with the trifling exception of Indian gold mines , which were sometimes referred to as having been worked in the " early ages ...
It says much for promoters that , for the most part , they steer clear of Scriptural allusions ; and , with the trifling exception of Indian gold mines , which were sometimes referred to as having been worked in the " early ages ...
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Acts advantages allotment already amount appear applied asked associations banks become British brought Brush Electric Light called carried cash cent CHAPTER concern considered cost directors district dividends Electric Light Company enterprises existence expenses field floated Foreign formed funds given giving gold guarantee hands Indian interest investment issued joint-stock companies known Lamp leading less liability Light and Power Limited liquidators London matter means meeting ment mines names never nominal capital object offices operations paid paid-up panies patents perhaps persons position Power Co present profits promoters prospectus purchase question railway reason referred registered schemes shareholders shares started Stock Storage subscribe success supply syndicate taken things tion trading turned undertakings vendors whole winding
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Página 37 - The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Página 6 - ... shall be deemed to be a company having a permanent paid-up, or nominal capital of fixed amount, divided into shares, also of fixed amount, or held and transferable as stock, or divided and held, partly in one way and partly in the other, and formed on the principle of having for its members the holders of shares in such capital, or the holders of such stock, and no other persons...
Página 22 - Whenever the Court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the Company should be wound up.
Página 40 - Is. per Ib., the directors feel justified in stating they confidently believe the profits of this company will be more than sufficient to pay dividends of at least 50 per cent, on the nominal capital, and will exceed those of the company working the English patent, which, having only been formed a little over twelve months, has entered into a contract which will yield the return, by way of annual dividends, of a sum equal to the whole paid-up capital of the company of £34,000.
Página 101 - WE, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company, in pursuance of this memorandum of association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the company set opposite our respective names.
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| Título | Public Companies from the Cradle to the Grave, Or, How Promoters Prey on the People Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890 |
| Autor | Jaycee (pseud.) |
| Editor | Wyman & Sons, 1883 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 21 Mayo 2007 |
| Largo | 104 páginas |
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