The Oriental Gas Company Act No. 1857
22. Copies of the
original Deed of Association and of all rules, etc., to be kept for
inspection at the office of the Company in Calcutta and in the office of
the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, or the Keeper of the Records of the
Supreme Court at Fort William.-
A copy of the original
Deed of Association of the said Company, and of every other instrument
registered under the said "Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1856",
as constituting the Regulations of the said Company, and a copy of every
special resolution of a General Meeting whereby any change shall have been,
or at any time shall be made in the Regulations of the said Company, shall
be kept at the office of the said Company in Calcutta, and shall there
be open to the inspection of all persons during the usual hours of
business of the said office; and a copy of such original Deed of Association,
and of every other such instrument, and of every special resolution as aforesaid,
shall also be deposited by the said Company as soon as it can be done after
the passing of this Act, or after the making of any such special resolution
hereafter to be made, in the office of the Registrar of Joint Stock
Companies, or, if there be no such officer, in the office of the Keeper of
the Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William 1*, and
shall there be filed; and an examined copy of any such filed copy as
aforesaid, certified by and under the hand of the Registrar of Joint Stock
Companies, or of the Keeper of the Records of the said Supreme Court, shall
be good and sufficient evidence of each such original Deed, instrument, or
special resolution, in all actions, suits, and proceedings whatsoever, whether
civil or criminal, to be had in any Court of Justice or before any
Magistrate, or Revenue or other officer, and whether acting judicially or in
any proceedings preliminary to a judicial inquiry, throughout the territories
of the East India Company.