Section 382. 
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SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
Part II. 
ENACTMENTS SAVED. 
AN AcT 10 REGULATE JOINT STOCK BANKS IN ENGLAND (7 & 8 Vict 
C. II3, S. 47). 
Existing com- Every company of more than six persons established on the sixth 
es wore of day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for the 
suing and being purpose of carrying on the trade or business of bankers within the 
sued. distance of sixty-five miles from London, and not within the pro- 
visions of the Act passed in the session ot the seventh and eighth 
years of Queen Victoria, chapter one hundred and thirteen, intituled 
“An Act to regulate Joint Stock Banks in England,” shall have the 
same powers and privileges of suing and being sued in the name of 
any one of the public officers of such co-partnership as the nominal 
plaintiff, petitioner, or defendant on behalf of such co-partnership; 
and all judgments, decrees, and orders made and obtained in any 
such suit may be enforced in like manner as is provided with respect 
to such companies carrying on the said trade or business at any 
place in England exceeding the distance of sixty-five miles from 
London under the provisions of the Country Bankers Act, 1826, 
provided that such first-mentioned company shall make out and 
deliver from time to time to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue 
the several accounts or returns required by the last-mentioned Act, 
and all the provisions of the last-recited Act as to such accounts or 
returns shall be taken to apply to the accounts or returns so made out 
and delivered by such first-mentioned companies as if they had been 
originally included in the provisions of the last-recited Act. 
Tue JoiNT Stock BANKING COMPANIES ACT, 1857, PART OF Ss. 12 
Power to form 
banking partner- 
ships of ten 
Jersons. 
Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act passed in the 
session holden in the seventh and eighth years of Queen Victoria, 
chapter one hundred and thirteen, and intituled ‘ An Act to regulate 
Joint Stock Banks in England,” or in any other Act, it shall be lawful 
for any number of persons, not exceeding ten, to carry on in partner- 
ship the business of banking, in the same manner and upon the same 
conditions in all respects as any company of not more than six 
persons could before the passing of the Joint Stock Banking Com- 
panies Act, 1857, have carried on such business.