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We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and we respectively agree to take the number of shares in the capital of the Company set opposite our respective names :—

Names, Addresses and Descriptions of Subscribers.

Number of Shares

taken by each Subscriber.

One thousand (1,000)

1

ROBT. SHEWAN,

Hongkong, Merchant.

H. F. CAMPBELL,

Hongkong, Merchant.

One

W. ADAMSON,

One hundred

Hongkong, Merchant.

(100)

H. P. WHITE,

Hongkong, Merchant.

One

#

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C. P. CHATER,

Hongkong, Financier.

One

T. F. HOUGH,

Hongkong, Broker, &c.

One

A. H. COMPTON,

Hongkong, Merchant.

One

Total Shares taken

1,105

Dated the 28th day of December, 1918. Witness to all the above signatures.

HERBERT W. LOOKER,

Solicitor,

Hongkong.

THE COMPANIES ORDINANCE, 1911.

THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER COMPANY (1918), LIMITED.

Ordinary Resolutions of the China Light and Power Co. (1918), Ltd.

AT

Passed on the 14th day of December, 1922.

Tan Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above Company duly convened, and held at the Offices of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., the General Managers of the said Company, St. George's Building, Victoria, in the Colony of Hong Kong, on Thursday, the 14th day of December, 1922, the following Ordinary Resolutions were duly passed:—

(1) That the authorised Capital of the Company (which is now $1,000,000 consisting of 200,000 shares of the nominal value of $5 each, the whole of which have been issued) be increased to $2,000,000 by the creation of 200,000 additional shares of the nominal value of $5 each, ranking (subject as hereinafter mentioned) for dividend and in all other respects par passu with the shares constituting the Company's present issued Capital. (2) That the said 200,000 new shares be offered in the first instance (in the proportion of one new share for every old share held by them respectively) to the members of the Company who on the 14th day of December, 1922, are registered in the Company's Share Register as the holders of the said 200,000 old shares at par and so that on acceptance of the offer the amount due in respect of such 200,000 shares shall be payable in two instalments, viz:-- the sum of $2.50 part thereof on the 2nd day of January, 1923, and the sum of $2.50, the balance thereof, on the 1st day of March, 1923.

And further that the said 200,000 new shares shall vis-a-vis the said 200,000 old shares only rank for dividend as from the 2nd day of January, 1923, in respect of the

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