|
|
Banking companies within 50 miles of Dublin may sue and be sued in the names of their officers,
in manner provided as to companies beyond that distance by 6 Geo. 4. c. 42.
Returns, &c. to be made under that Act.
|
30. Every company or copartnership of more than six persons established before the passing of this Act, for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers within the distance of fifty miles from Dublin, shall have the same powers and privileges of suing and being sued, and of presenting petitions to found sequestrations or fiats in bankruptcy, in the name of any one of the public officers of such company or copartnership, as the nominal plaintiff petitioner, or defendant, on behalf of such company or copartnership, as are provided with respect to companies carrying on the said trade or business at any place in Ireland exceeding the distance of fifty miles from Dublin, under the provisions of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled “An Act for the better regulation of copartnerships of certain bankers in Ireland”; and all judgments, decrees, and orders made and obtained in any action, suit, or other proceeding brought, instituted, or carried on by or against any such company or copartnership carrying on business within the distance of fifty miles from Dublin, in the name of their public officer, shall have the same effect and operation, and may be enforced in like manner in all respects, as is provided in and by the last-mentioned Act with respect to the judgments, decrees, and orders therein mentioned; provided that every such company or copartnership as last aforesaid shall make out and deliver from time to time to the commissioners of stamps and taxes the several accounts or returns required by the last-mentioned Act; and all the provisions of the last-mentioned Act as to such accounts or returns shall be taken to apply to the accounts or returns so made out and delivered by the said last-mentioned companies, as if they had been originally included in the provisions of the last-mentioned Act.
|
