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(2) To convey passengers, goods, mails, troops, munitions of war, live stock, corn, and other produce, treasure and merchandise of all kinds, whether belonging to Members of the Company or others, by land or sea to and from such places as the Directors of the Company for the time being may determine, also to build, pur- chase, take in exchange or otherwise acquire, charter or hire, sail, and manage steam or other ships or vessels, coal hulks, receiving ships, lighters, ware- houses, houses, land, cattle or live stock, merchandise or treasure, also to charter or hire, sell or let, or otherwise employ or dispose of such ships or vessels, warehouses, houses, land, cattle, live stock, merchandise or treasure, also to grant or effect loans on any ship or on any goods, stock, merchandise or treasure carried or to be carried in any ships or vessels, and also to borrow money on loan on any ships or goods or merchandise belonging to the Company, or on the debentures of the Company, and generally to transact all such business and to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects or any of them.
(3) To carry on any other business which may seem to the Company capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with the above or calculated directly or indirectly to render profitable or enhance the value of any of the Company's property or rights.
(4) To purchase, take in exchange or otherwise acquire and hold shares or interests in any ships and vessels, and also shares, stocks and securities of any companies possessed of or interested in any ships or vessels, and to sell exchange, deal with or dispose of any such shares, interests, stocks or securities as aforesaid.
(5) To acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, property and liabilities of any person or company carrying on any business which the Company is authorised to carry on or possessed of property suitable for the purposes of the Company.
(6) To apply for, purchase or otherwise acquire any patents brevets d'invention, licences, concessions, and the like, conferring any exclusive or non-exclusive or limited right to use, or any secret or other information as to
any invention which may seem capable of being used for any of the purposes of the Company, or the acquisi- tion of which may seem calculated directly or indirectly to benefit the Company and to use, exercise, develop, or grant licences in respect of, or otherwise turn to account the property, rights or information so acquired. (7) To amalgamate, enter into partnership, or into any arrangement for sharing profits, union of interests, co-operation, joint adventure, reciprocal concession, or otherwise, with any person or company carrying on or engaged in, or about to carry on or engage in any business or transaction which this Company is authorised to carry on or engage in, or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit this Company. And to lend money to, guarantee the contracts of, or otherwise assist, any such person or company, and to take or otherwise acquire shares and securities of any such company, and to sell, hold, re-issue, with or without guarantee, or otherwise deal with the same.
(8) To take, or otherwise acquire, and hold shares in any other company having objects, altogether or in part similar to those of this Company, or carrying on any business capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to benefit this Company
(9) To enter into any arrangement with any government or authority, supreme, municipal, local, or otherwise, that may seem conducive to the Company's objects or any of them, and to obtain from any such government or authority, any rights, privileges, and concessions, which the Company may think it desirable to obtain, and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges and concessions. (10) To establish and support or aid in or contribute to the establishment and support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts and conveniences calculated to benefit employees or ex-employees of the Company or its pre- decessors in business or the dependents or connections of such persons, and to grant pensions and allowances, and donations to any person who has been in the employ of the Company, or to ex-employees of any persons, firms, or Companies whose business may have