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NOTICE.

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Socialy will be held at the registered office of the Society. Queen's Building, Hongkong, on FRIDAY, the 15th day of April, 1918, at 12 o'clock noon, when the Babjoked resolutions which were passed at the Extmordinary General Meeting of the Society held on the 10th day of April, 1819, will be submitted for con Armation as special resolutions

1. That the

the nominal

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ilver capital of the Society as existing ben this resolution is confirmed as a special resolutien be converted into sterling and that such capital so converted be increased beyond the sterling equivalent of such silver cupital when sach conversion takes place to the sum of £2,000,000 Sterling

divided into 200,000 shares of the nominal value of £10 cou

That each of the issued silver shares of the Society of the nominal value of 1950 each with the sum of $10 paid up thereon be converted into Ave shares of the nominal value of £10 each with the sterling equivalent of 120 Hoogkoog er rency at the opening T. T. rate of exchange on the date this rmolution is conded as a special resolution credited as pard up thereon and accordingly that 80,000 shares out of the 200,000 abares of the nomical value of £10 each constituting the capital of the Society-so converted and increased be distributed by the Roard to the persons who are registered as shareholders of the Society on the date this resolution is confirmed as a special resolution in exchange for the silver shares then held by them.

That the Articles of Association be altered in manner following, namely:

By the insection after article No. 107 of the following Article.

**10 (a) The. Board my employ the funds of the Society which plot

have been established

pursuant to the provisions of Article 107

o any of them or any portion thereof (and that whether such funds

or such portion as is proposed to be dealt with ware set aside for the special purpose to which they are proposed to be applied or log any other purpose or not) in or for all or say of the following purposes, that is to say, in meeting wootingencies, in equalizing dividends, in paying special dividends or bonuses, in repairing, improving and musintaining any of the property of the Society, or otherwise in the busi.. ress of the Society, and in or for such other purposes as the Board shall in its distion think conducive to the interest of the Society and in regard to any such employment as afore aid the Board shall not be bound to keep sich funds separate from the other nets."

Ey the insertion of the following Articles after Article No. 108.

18 (1) Any general meeting at which

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Against all.

chividend or bonus is Bons may declared or sanctioned may make a call on the members of such amont as the meeting fixes but so that the call on each member shall not exord the dividend or bonus payable to him and so that notwithstanding the provisions of Articles 19, 20 and 21 the call may be payable at the same time as the divid end or bus and the dividend or bonus way, if so arranged between the Society and the member, be set off against. the call The making of call under this Article shall be deerret ordinary business of an ordinary general meeting whick. dechures a dividend. »

(3). After any resolution has been passer under the provisions of paragraph (1) of hir Article the Board may arrange on 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 ntent with the Society providing for such dividend or bonus to be set off against such call and say Agreement made under sub authority shall be effective. (3) Izball

be no objection to any resolution made under para- graph (1) of this article or to any call or arrangement that such resolution was passed or such call or arrangement was male at the meeting which the resolution introducing this. Article and Articles IG (a, was confirmed as a special resolu tion provided that die notice of the intention to such first mentioned relation and to declare auch dividend propose or bonus and to make such cat shall have been given prior to the Confirmatory meeting aforesaid.

for

106 (b). Dividends may be paid in Hongkong Currency at such Este of rate of exchange as the General Meeting sanctioning the g same or, in the case of interim dividends, as the Burd may dividend dotermine."

payable in Hongkong.

And the abjcined resolutions will be proposed is Extraordinary

resolutions:-m

1. That the difference between the sterling equivalent at to-day's opening T.T. rate of exchange of 320 Hongkong currency and the sum of £4 be alled up upon each of the 80.000 shares of the Society of the nominal value of £10 each into which tho silver shares of the Society have been converted.

Tha: bonus dividend equal in amount to us difference in is referred to in Resolution No. 1 be and the same is hereby decisred out of the Reinsurance Fund of the Society, such bonus dividend being payable to the persons who are register ed as the shareholders of the Society on the date this resola tion is passed and that such dividend in the case of each of such persons be sat off against the amount cue from his for calls under Resclation be. I and be retained by the Society accordingly and that the Board be authorised to make the Decessary entries in the books of the Rociety.

That!

16,000 shares of the capital of the Society be tested addi tionally to the 80,000 shares referred to in Resolution No. 1 and that the sum of £4 be called up thereon and that such addijonal shares be offered in the first instance at a premium of £1 per share to the persons who are registered as the abure holders of the Fociety on the date this Vesolution is passed in the proportion of one additional share for each silver share previossy bald and upon the footing that the sum of 24 called up plus the 21 (making together £5 per share) shall be paid to the Society on acceptance of the offer, and that such offer be rude by notice specifying the number of shares to which such 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 1919, and that the Board be empow ered to dispose of the shares pot taken up in response to such offer as they consider expedient in the interests of the Society. Tast the 13,000 additional shares referred to in Resolution No. 3 participate in all dividends declared after the next Annual General fecting of the Society pro mats with the 80,000 shares referred to in Resolution No.1.

Dated the Eleventh day of April, 1019.

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