Bank of Bombay Act, 1840, 3 of 1840 (Rep., Bom. Act 10 of 1863)

Section II. And it is hereby enacted, that the Capital Stock of the Bank of Bombay shall in amount not be less t

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II. And it is hereby enacted, that the Capital Stock of the Bank of Bombay shall in amount not be less than Fifty Lakhs of Rupees, nor, unless increased as hereinunder provided, more than Fifty-six Lakhs, whereof Three Lakhs of Rupees shall be the property of the Governor in Council of Bombay, and the persons whose names are in the Schedule hereunto annexed, shall, provided that the amount of Stock subscribed for by them, be paid up on or before the 1st April next, be Proprietors of the Shares of the said Capital Stock set against their names respectively, together with any further persons whose claims shall be admitted before the 1st May next, on their paying up the Stock to which they may be so admitted upon or before the said 1st May next. And if any of the Proprietors named in the said Schedule shall not have duly paid up in full the amount of Capital Stock to which he or they are entitled, the shares of such Stock that may be so unpaid, (provided that the total amount that may so lapse do not reduce the Capital Stock of the Bank below the sum of Fifty Lakhs of Rupees,) shall be cancelled. And if the lapsed shares cause the aggregate of the Capital Stock to be less than Fifty Lakhs of Rupees, then so much Stock as may be necessary to complete than sum, shall be sold by Public Auction in Lots of One Thousand Rupees, on such date not being later than the 1st of May next, as may be fixed by the Governor in Council of Bombay, and the amount realized at such sale, after making good the Capital Stock, shall be passed to credit as a profit at the disposal of the Bank.

Source: India Code