Act Number: 6

Act Name: The Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit Act, 1893

Year: 1893

Enactment Date: 1893-03-09

Long Title: An Act for settling Bonds of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay producing an annual income of one lakh and twenty five thousand rupees and a Mansion-house and hereditaments called Petit Hall in the Island of Bombay, the property of Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, Baronet, so as to accompany and support the title and dignity of a Baronet lately conferred by Her Present Majesty Queen Victoria on him for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease to hold to his second son, Framjee Dinshaw Petit, Esquire, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and in default of such issue with remainder to the heirs male of the body of the said Sir Dinshaw Manockjee Petit, and for other purposes connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of States

Section 1: Incorporation of Trustee.
    That Arthur Frederick Cox, Esquire, the Accountant-General of Bombay, James MacNabb Campbell, Esquire, the Collector of Bombay, and Charles Philip Cooper, Esquire, the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Bombay, and their successors, the Accountant-General of Bombay, the Collector of Bombay, and the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Bombay, all for the time being, shall be and they are hereby created a Corporation with perpetual succession and a common seal under the style and title of The Trustees of the Dinshaw Manockjee Petit Baronetcy, and that the said Arthur Frederick Cox, James NacNabb Campbell, and Charles Philip Cooper, and their said successors (hereinafter styled The Corporation”), shall be and they are hereby constituted, as such Corporation, the Trustee for executing the powers and purposes of this Act.
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