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Chairman at meetings.
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ing to be dis- solved and when to be adjourned.
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63. Six members personally present shall be a quorum for all the purposes of transacting all the business of an Ordinary Yearly Meeting as mentioned in Article 62 except special business. The quorum for transacting special business at an Ordinary Yearly Meeting and at all Extraordinary Meetings shall be ten members, personally present. No business shall be transacted at any General Meeting unless the requisite quorum shall be present at the commencement of the business.
64. The Chairman of the Company shall take the chair at every General Meeting, or, if at any meeting he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, or if he shall be unwilling to act as Chairman, the members present shall choose one of the Directors as Chairman, and if no Director be present, or, if all the Directors present decline to take the chair, then the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman.
65. If within half an hour from the time appointed quorum not for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if present meet-convened upon the requisition of members, shall be dis- solved, but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to such day in the next week and at such time and place as shall be decided by the Chairman, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum is not present two members personally present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called.
How ques- tions to be decided.
What is to be evidence of
of a resolu- tion where poll not demanded.
66. Every question submitted to a meeting 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 a show of hands and at the poll, have a casting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled as a member.
67. At any General Meeting, unless a poll is de- manded in the case of a Special or Extraordinary the passing Resolution by at least five members entitled to vote or in any other case by the Chairman or by at least ten members entitled to vote or by a member or members holding or representing by proxy or entitled to vote in respect of at least one-tenth part of the capital repre- sented at the meeting, a declaration by the Chairman that a resolution has been carried, or carried by a