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Voting by proxy.

Instrument appointing proxy to be in writing.

Instrument appointing proxy to be

deposited at Head Office.

When vote by proxy valid though authority revoked.

persons entitled to dispose of the property of a deceased member in whose name stands any share shall for the purposes of this clause be deemed joint holders thereof.

125. Subject to the provisions of article 75 any Member becoming a lunatic, or non compos-mentis, may vote by his Committee, judicial factor, curator bonis or other legal guardian, and any of such persons may vote either personally, or by proxy.

126. Votes may be given either personally, or by proxy.

127. The instrument appointing a proxy shall be in writing under the hand of the appointor or of his attorney duly authorized or, if such appointor is a corporation, under its common seal, or under the hand of its attorney. Any person whether a member or not may be appointed a proxy provided that unless such proxy be a member of the Company or be a member of a firm or Company for which he is appointed proxy his appointment shall be subject to the approval of the Directors who shall have an absolute discretion to disallow such appointment without being bound to state any reason.

128. The instrument appointing a proxy, and the power of attorney (if any) under which it is signed, shall be deposited at the Head Office not less than twenty-four hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting, as the case may be, at which the person named in such instrument proposes Otherwise the person so named shall not be entitled to vote by virtue thereof, provided that the Directors may at any time or in any case suspend this regulation. No instrument appointing a proxy shall be valid after the expiration of twelve months after the date of its execution.

to vote.

129. A vote given in accordance with the terms of an instrument of proxy shall be valid notwithstanding the previous death of the principal or revocation of the proxy or transfer of the share in respect of which the vote is given provided that no intimation in writing of the death revocation or transfer shall have been received at the Head Office before the meeting.

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130. Every instrument of proxy, whether for a Form of specified meeting, or otherwise shall as nearly as proxy. circumstances will permit be in the form or to the effect following or in such other form or to such other effect as the Board shall from time to time or at any time notwithstanding the form following approve of.

The Innamincka Steamship Company, Limited.

of

I

being a member of The Innamincka Steamship Company, Limited, hereby appoint

of of

(or failing him)

as my proxy to vote for me and on my behalf at the ordinary or extraordinary (as the case may be) General Meeting of the Company to be held on the

and at any day adjournment thereof (or at any meeting of the Company) that may be held in the year (or during my absence from

As witness my hand this

Signed by the said in the presence of

).

day of

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131. Attestation shall not be deemed essential to Attestation. the validity of an instrument of proxy but in the absence of attestation the Directors may require such evidence as they may think fit of the genuineness of the signature affixed thereto.

instruments

132. Any instrument so deposited as aforesaid con- Return of taining powers and provisions for the appointment of deposits and a proxy shall upon the request of the holder be containing returned to him but the holder shall (if required) proxies. deliver to the Company a copy of such instrument. Every instrument containing merely the appointment of a proxy shall be retained by the Directors.

133. No member shall be entitled to be present, or No Member

entitled to to vote on any question either personally or by proxy, vote, etc., or as proxy for, or as representative of another while call due member at any General Meeting or upon a poll, or to Company. be reckoned in a quorum, whilst any call or other sum shall be due and payable to the Company in

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