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(12) Generally to purchase, take on lease, or in exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire, and improve, manage, work, develop and exercise all rights in respect of, lease, mortgage, sell, dispose of, turn to account, or otherwise deal with all or any of the assets or rights of the Bank, or any real or personal property of any kind wherever situate, and any concessions, franchises, charters, patents, monopolies, privileges, or rights, whatsoever and wheresoever, which the Bank may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business or with reference to any of these objects, or the acquisition of which may seem calculated to facilitate the realization of any securities held by the Bank, or to prevent or diminish any apprehended loss or liability.
(13) To enter into any arrangements with any government, state, principality, authority, or body, whether supreme, provincial, municipal, local or otherwise, or any other banks that may seem conducive to the Bank's objects or any of them, and to obtain from any such government, state, principality, authority or body, or bank and thereafter to carry out, exercise, develop, and otherwise deal with, and turn to account any concessions, franchises, charters, patents, monopolies, privileges, or rights, whatsoever and wheresoever.
(14) To receive on deposit, gratuitously or otherwise, for safe cus- tody, transit or otherwise, money, securities for money, docu- ments of or relating to title to property of all kinds, bullion, jewellery, pictures, plate and other articles of value, goods, chattels, moveable effects, and personal property of every kind.
(15) To issue warrants, documents of title and other mercantile instruments or indicia of title or possession, against deposits of all kinds made with the Bank.
(16) To procure the Bank to be registered or recognised in the United Kingdom or in any colony or dependency thereof, or in any British Dominion or in any foreign country or state, or colony or dependency thereof, or in any protected or mandated territory, whether under British or foreign control.
(17) To obtain any charter or letters patent or any Act, Ordinance or decree of the Imperial Parliament, or of any Dominion or Colonial Parliament or Legislature, or of any Foreign Govern- ment or Authority (whether supreme or provincial) or of any Sovereign, legislative assembly or council, or of any Court of Justice, or any provisional or other order of the Board of Trade, or of any provincial, municipal or local authority or other proper authority of whatever nature for enabling the Bank to carry any of its objects into effect, or for dissolving the Bank and re-incorporating its members as a new company or corporation for any of the objects specified in these pre- sents, or for effecting any modification in the Bank's constitu- tion.
(18) To borrow or raise money in such manner as the Bank shall think fit and on security or otherwise and in particular by the issue of debentures or debenture Stock, bonds or other obliga- tions (whether perpetual or otherwise) and whether charged or not upon all or any of the Bank's property (both present and future) including its uncalled capital, and to create, execute and issue mortgages, debentures and charges, and to issue circular notes, bills, drafts and other instruments and securi- ties, whether payable to bearer or otherwise, and to make the same or any of them assignable free from equities.
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