By whom notice signed,
Omision to give notice not to invalidate resolutions.
Number of Shareholders present.
If required number not present, Meeting to be adjourned or dissolved.
Adjourned Meeting to transact business.
Chairman at Meeting.
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79.-EVERY such notice shall be given by the Board through the Secretary, except as in Article 77 mentioned, and except also in the case of a Meeting convened by Shareholders, in accordance with these Presents, in which case the notice may be signed by the Shareholders convening the same, or by any Five, or more of them.
80.-THE OMISSION to give any such notice to any of the Shareholders, if the notice has been previously advertised in one local Newspaper at the least, shall not invalidate any Resolution passed at any Meeting,
81.-EXCEPT as otherwise provided by these Presents, no business shall be transacted at any Meeting, unless there shall be personally present at the commencement of the business Ten or more Shareholders.
82.-IF at the expiration of half-an-hour from the time appointed for the Meeting, the required number of Shareholders shall not be present, the Meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Shareholders, shall be dissolved, but in any other case it may be adjourned to such time on the following day, or on such other day, and to such place as the Shareholders present at the expiration of the half-hour shall determine.
83.-AT ANY adjourned Meeting, the Shareholders present, if not less than Five, shall have power to decide upon all the matters which could properly have been disposed of at the Meeting from which the adjournment took place, in case a sufficient number of Shareholders had been present at the Original Meeting.
84.-A MEMBER of the Board shall preside as Chairman at every Meeting, but in case at any such Meeting no member of the Board be present within half-an-hour after the time appointed for holding the Meeting, the Shareholders present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman.
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85. THE CHAIRMAN with the consent of the Meeting may adjourn any Meeting from time to time, and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting, other than the business left unfinished at the Meeting from which the adjournment took place.
Show of hands.
86.-EVERY MOTION submitted to a Meeting shall be decided by a majority, and shall be decided in the first instance by a show of hands, and in the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman shall both on the show of hands and at the poll have a casting vote in addition to his own vote.
87.-A DECLARATION of the Chairman of any Meeting that a Resolution has been carried thereat upon a show of hands shall be conclusive, and an entry to that effect in the Book of proceedings of the Company, shall be sufficient evidence of that fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favor of, or against such Resolution, unless immediately on such declaration a poll shall be demanded by at least Two Shareholders present, and entitled to vote at such Meeting.
88.-IF a poll be demanded the same shall be taken at such time and place, and either by open voting or by ballot as the Chairman shall direct, and the result of the poll shall be deemed to be the Resolution of the Meeting at which the poll was demanded.
89. THE DECISIONS by the Majority of all Meetings shall be fairly entered in a Book to be kept by the Secretary and subscribed by the Chairman of the respective Meetings.
90.-THE Proceedings at any Meeting duly called and constituted, and all Resolutions and decisions of such Meeting shall be valid and binding on the Company.
Decisions of Meetings to be entered in a Book.
Resolutions at Meeting to be binding.
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