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Joint holders.
Proxies per mitted,
Instrument appointing proxy to be in writing.
of proxy must be deposited.
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the holding of the meeting or adjourned meeting as the case may be at which he proposes to vote he shall satisfy the Directors of his right to transfer such shares, or the Directors shall have previously admitted his right to vote at such meeting in respect thereof.
74. Where there are joint registered holders of any share any one of such persons may vote at any meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; and if more than one of such joint holders be present at any meeting personally or by proxy that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the Register in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof. Several executors or administrators of a deceased member in whose name auy share stands shall for the purposes of this Article be deemed joint holders thereof.
75. Votes may be given either personally or by proxy or by an attorney.
76. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing, under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney, or, if such appointor be a corporation, under its Common Seal (or the hand of its Attorney). No person shall be appointed a Proxy and no person shall vote as an Attorney who is not a member and qualified to vote, save that a corporation being a member of the Company may appoint any one of its officers to be its proxy, though not a member of the Company.
Appointment 77. The instrument appointing a proxy and the Power of Attorney (if any) under which it is signed and any Power of Attorney under which any member claims to vote for an absent member shall be deposited at the office not less than Forty-eight hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting, or l'oll as the case may be, at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote, but no instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months from the date of its execution.
When vote by proxy
78. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy or of a Power of Attorney shall be valid though valid notwithstanding the previous death of the principal, authority re- voked. or revocation of the proxy, or Power of Attorney, or
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transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is given, provided no intimation in writing of the death, revocation or transfer shall have been received at the office before the meeting.
79. Every instrument of proxy, whether for a speci- Form of fied meeting, or otherwise, shall, as nearly as circumstances proxy. will permit, be in the form specified in Schedule B to these Presents or in such other form or to such other effect as the Directors shall from time to time or at any time notwithstanding the form in the said Schedule
approve of 80. No member or person referred to in Article 72 No member shall be entitled to be present, or to vote on any question, entitled to either personally or by proxy, or as proxy or attorney for vote, etc., another member, at any General Meeting, or upon a poll, due to the or be reckoned in a quorum, whilst any call, or other sum Company. shall be due and payable to the Company in respect of any of the shares of such member or in respect of which such person may be entitled to vote.
Business.
while call
81. The Head Office of the Company shall be at its Head Office. Registered Office in Victoria, Hongkong, and the business of the Company shall be carried on there, and at such other place or places as the Directors may deem advisable.
General Managers.
82. The firm of Shewan Tomes and Co., Hongkong, General and their successors in business so long as the said firm Managers. and its successors shall be willing to act (subject as provided by the next ensuing Clause hereof) and shall Possess the requisite share qualification as provided by clause 3 (f) of the Company's Memorandum of Association (save as excepted by that clause), shall be the General Managers of the Company. And so long as they or their successors shall be such General Managers the partner or person for the time being in charge of the said firm of Shewan Tomes & Co. in Hong Kong or its successors shall be an ex-officio Director of the Company and subject to the approval of the Directors Chairman of the Company,
83. The General Managers shall not resign their Resignation office without giving the Directors six calendar months' of General previous notice in writing to take effect on the last day Managers. of the financial year which expires next after such six months' notice shall have expired or at the same time
as the expiration of such six months' notice.
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