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Notice of meeting.
Two meetings convened by one notice.
As to omis- sion to give notice.
Business of ordinary meeting.
Special business.
Quorum,
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(4). Any meeting convened under this Article by
the requisitionists shall be convened in the Meeting unless the requisite quorum be present at the when busin
III. No business shall be transacted at any General Quorum to
same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the Directors.
106. Seven clear days' notice to the members specifying the place, day, and hour of meeting and in case of special business specifying also the general nature of such business, shall be given either by adver- tisement or by notice sent by post or otherwise served as hereinafter provided and with the consent in writing of all the members a meeting may be convened by a shorter notice and in any manner they think fit.
107. Where it is proposed to pass a Special Resolu- tion the two Meetings may be convened by one and the same notice and it is to be no objection to such notice that it only convenes the second meeting con- tingently on the resolution being passed by the requisite majority at the first meeting.
108. The accidental omission to give any such notice to or the non-receipt of any such notice by any of the Members shall not invalidate any resolution passed at any such meeting.
Proceedings at General Meetings,
109. The business of an Ordinary Meeting shall be to receive and consider the Profit and Loss Account and the Balance Sheet and the Reports of the Directors and of the Auditors, to elect Directors and other Officers in the place of those retiring by rotation, to declare dividends and to transact any other business which under these Presents ought to be transacted at an Ordinary Meeting. All other business transacted at an Ordinary Meeting and all business transacted at an Extraordinary Meeting shall be deemed special, and shall be subject to notice as herein before provided..
110. For all purposes the quorum for a General Meeting shall be three members personally present.
commencement of the business.
begun. 112. The First Chairman of the Board of Directors Chairman of shall be Donald MacDonald of Victoria, Hongkong. general
meeting. The Chairman of the Directors shall be entitled to take the chair at every General Meeting, and if there be no such Chairman, or if at any meeting he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, the members present in person or by proxy shall choose another Director as Chairman and if no Director be present, or if all the Directors present decline to take the chair, then the members present in person or by proxy shall choose one of their number to be Chairman.
present
when
113. If within half an hour from the time appointed When if for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, quorum not if convened upon such requisition as aforesaid, shall be meeting to be dissolved; but in any other case it shall stand adjourn- dissolved and ed to the same day in the next week, at the same adjourned. time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present those members who are present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.
decided at
114. Every question submitted to a meeting shall be How ques- decided in the first instance by a show of hands of tions to be the members present in person and entitled to vote, meetings. and in the case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall both on a show of hands and at the poll have a second or casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled as a member.
noll not
115. At any General Meeting unless a poll is What is to be
evidence of demanded in the case of a special or extraordinary
the passing of resolution by at least two persons entitled to vote, a resolution or in any other case by the Chairman or by at least where three members or by a member or members holding demanded. or representing by proxy or entitled to vote in respect of at least one-tenth part of the capital represented at the meeting, a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has been carried or carried by a particular