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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MARCHI, 1865.
(31.) The above mentioned General Meetings shall be called Ordinary Meetings; all other General
Meetings shall be called Extraordinary.
(32.) The Directors may, whenever they think fit, and they shall upon a Requisition made in Writing by not less than One-Fifth in Number of the Members of the Company, convene an Extraordinary General Meeting.
(33.) Any Requisition made by the Members shall express the Object of the Meeting proposed to be
called, and shall be left at the registered Office of the Company.
(34.) Upon the Receipt of such Requisition the Directors shall forthwith proceed to convene an Extra..
ordinary General Meeting. If they do not proceed to convene the same within Twenty-one Days from the date of the Requisition, the Requisitionists, or any other Members amounting to the required Number, may themselves convene an Extraordinary General Meeting.
Proceedings at General Meetings.
(35.) Seven Days' Notice at the least, specifying the Place, the Day, and the Hour of Meeting, and in case of special Business the general nature of such Business, shall be given to the Members in manner hereinafter mentioned, or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the Com- pany in General Meeting; but the Non-receipt of such Notice by any Member shall not invalidate the Proceedings at any General Meeting.
(36.) All Business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an Extraordinary Meeting, and all that is transacted at an Ordinary Meeting, with the exception of sanctioning a Dividend and the Consi- deration of the Accounts, Balance Sheets, and the Ordinary Report of the Directors.
(37.) No Business shall be transacted at any General Meeting, except the Declaration of a Dividend, unless a Quorum of Members is present at the Time when the Meeting proceeds to Business; and such Quorum shall be ascertained as follows; that is to say, if the Persons who have taken Shares in the Company at the time of the Meeting do not exceed Ten in number, the Quorum shall be Five; if they exceed Ten there shall be added to the above Quorum One for every Five additional Members up to Fifty, and One for every Ten additional Members after Fifty, with this Limitation, that no Quorum shall in any case exceed Twenty.
(38.) If within one Hour from the Time appointed for the Meeting a Quorum is not present, the Meeting, if convened upon the requisition of Members, shall be dissolved: In any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same Day in the next Week, at the same Time and Place: and if at such adjourned Meeting a Quorum is not present, it shall be adjourned sine die.
(39.) The Chairman (if any) of the Board of Directors shall preside as Chairman at every General
Meeting of the Company.
(40.) If there is no such Chairman, or if at any Meeting he is not present within Fifteen Minutes after the Time appointed for holding the Meeting, the Members present shall choose some one of their Number to be Chairman,
(41.) The Chairman may, with the Consent of the Meeting, adjourn any Meeting from Time to Time
and from Place to Place, but no Business shall be transacted at any adjourned Meeting other than • the Business left unfinished at the Meeting from which the Adjournment took place.
(12.) At any General Meeting, unless a Poll is demanded by at least Five Members, a Declaration by the Chairman that a Resolution has been carried, and an Entry to that effect in the Book of Pro- ceedings of the Company shall be sufficient Evidence of the Fact, without Proof of the Number or Proportion of the Votes recorded in favour of or against such Resolution.
(43.) If a Poll is demanded by Five or more Members it shall be taken in such Manner as the Chair- man directs, and the Result of such Poll shall be deemed to be the Resolution of the Company in General Meeting. In the Case of an equality of votes at any General Meeting the Chairman shall be entitled to a Second or Casting Vote.
Votes of Members.
(44.) Every Member shall have One Vote for every Share up to Ten: he shall have an additional Vote for every Five Shares beyond the first Ten Shares up to One Hundred, and an additional Vote for every Ten Shares beyond the first Hundred Shares:
(45.) If any Member is a Lunatic or Idiot he may vote by his Committee, or other legal Represen-
tative.
(46) If more Persons than one are jointly entitled to a Share or Shares, the Member whose name stand
first in the Register of Members as one of the Holders of such Share or Shares, and no other, shall be entitled to vote in respect of the same.
(47.) No Member shall be entitled to vote at any General Meeting unless all Calls due from him have been paid, and no Member shall be entitled to vote in respect of any Share that he has acquired by transfer at any Meeting held after the Expiration of Three Months from the Registration of the Company, unless he has been possessed of the Share in respect of which he claims to vote for a least Three Months previously to the time of holding the Meeting at which he proposes to vote.
(48.) Votes may be given either personally or by Proxy.
(49.) The Instrument appointing a Proxy shall be in writing, under the Hand of the Appointor,
or if
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