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ONION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society will be held at the registered office of the Society, Queen's Building. Bongkang, on FMJDAY, the ato day of April, 1919, at 12 o'clock noon, when the bjoined resolutions which were passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Society held on the 10th day of April, 1918, will be submitted for con famation sa special resolutions --
1. That the nominal silver capital of the Society as existing when this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution ba converted into sterling and tims such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver capital hen emch conversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling divided into 900,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each.
"That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal valus of $950 each with the sum of 80 paid up thereon be converted into five shares of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of 820 Hongkong cur.". rency at the opening T. T. rate of exchange on the date this resolution is copirmed as a special resolution credited as paid up thereon and accordingly that e0,000 shares out of the 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 each constituting the capital of the Society 80 converted and increased bo distributed by the Roard to the parauna who are registered as stareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver share then held by them.
2 That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following,
namely:
By the insertion after article No. 107 of the following Article.
or
Lot TEETH
107 (a) 1be Board may employ the funds of the Society which suplogmani
have been established pursuant to the provisions of Article 107 ods. pany of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with wers set aside for the special purpose to which they are, proposed to be applied or for any other purpose or not) in or for all any of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting coutingencies, equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing, improving and maintaining any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the busi tess of the Society, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its discretion think conducive to the interest of the Society and in regard to any such employment as afore- said the Board shall not be bound to keep such funds separate from the other asata"
he Not of
install,
By the insertion of the following Articles after Article No. 108:
10da (1) Any general meeting at which a dividend or benus is Bonus may
declared or auctioned may make a call on the members of such amouet as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exceed the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that actwithstanding the provisions af Aticles 10, 90 and 21 the call may be payable at the same time as the divid end or bonus and the dividend or bonus may, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be se. off against the Cul The making of a call under this Article shall be deemed ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting which declares a dividend.
(*) After any resolution has been passed under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article the Board may arrange en behalf of the Society for the dividend or bonus to be set off against the call by authorizing any person on behalf of the members from whom such call is due to enter into an Agree ment with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and any Agreeurent made under such authority shall be effective. a
B).
It shall be no objection to any resolution made under para- graph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that auch resolution was passed or sach call or arrangement was made at the meeting at which the resolution introducing this. Article and Articles 107 (a,was confirmed ca a special resolu aion provided that due notice of the intention to propose such first mentioned resolution and to declare such dividend or bonus and to make such call shall have been given prior to the Confirmator meeting aforesaid.
Exe
108 (b). Dividends may be paid in Hongrong Currency at such Rate of
rate of exchange as the General Meeting sanctioning the ge same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Board may blemis determin."
And the subjoined resolutions will be proposed as Extraordinary
resolutions
1. That the difference between the sterling equivalent at to-day's opening TT. rate of exchange of 80 Hongkong currency. ad the sum of £4 be called up upon each of the 80,000 shares of the Society of the nominal value of £10 each into which the silver shares of the society have been converted.
That a bonus dividend equal in amount to such difference a is referred to in Resolution No. 1 be and the same is hereby declared out of the Reinsurance Fund of the Society, such boaus dividend being payable to the persons who are register ed as the shareholders of the Society on the date this resolu tion is passed and that such dividend in the case of each of suek persons be set off against the amount due from him for calls under Resolution No, I and be retained by the Eociety accordingly and that the Board be authorised to make the necessary entries in the books of the Society.
That 10,000 shares of the capital of the Society be issued addi- tionally to the 80,000 abales referred to in Resolation No. L and that the sum of £4 be calche Erst instance sta premium thereon and that such. additional shares be offered in the of £1 per share to the persons who are registered as the share- holders of the fociety on the date this resolution is passed in the proportion of one additional shate for each silver share previously held and upon the footing that the sum of £ called up plus the £21 (making Together £95 per share) shall be paid to the Society on scceptance of the offer, and that such offer be made by notice specifying the number of shares to which auch persons are entitled and limiting the time within which the oder if not accepted by payment will be deemed to be declined to the 23rd May, 1910, and that the Board be empow ered to dispone of the shares uot taken up in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interests of the Society- 4. That the 3,000 additional shares referred to in Resolution No. 3 parueipate in all dividends declared after the next, Anaus! General bleeting of the Society prorate with the 80,000 shares. referred to in Resolution No. 1, i Dated the Eleventh day of April, 1918.
By Order of the Board,
payable in Hongkong
C. MONTAGUE EDE,
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