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express the object of the meeting proposed to be called, and shall be left at the office of the Company, on the receipt of which the Directors shall call the said extraordinary meeting by written notice to each shareholder, in not less than ten, nor more than twenty days after the said requisition shall be deposited at the office of the said Corporation; and, in the event of the Directors refusing to call such extraordinary general meeting, the requisitionists shall then have full authority to notify members of the said Company in writing of said refusal, and to convene an extraordinary general meeting in not less than ten days after such refusal shall be signified to said requisitionists.

XI. At any extraardinary general meeting of the said Corporation, whether called by the Directors or by not less than ten members as hereinbefore provided, it shall be lawful for the shareholders of the said Companyflor the major part of them, to transact any business which may have failed to be transacted at the time appointed for the annual meeting, through the absence of a majority of the shareholders, per- sonally, or by proxy at the said annual meet- ing, or through neglect to adjourn said annual meeting, or from any other cause whatsoever; and, at said extraordinary general meeting, it shall also be lawful for the members of the said Corporation, or the major part of them, to remove any Director, and fill up the vacancy so occasioned, or any vacancy otherwise occa- sioned, and transactany other business: always providing that no action shall be taken in any matter not set forth in the statement of the object or objects for which the said meeting shall have, been called.

XII. The shares of the said Corporation, or any one of them, may not be transferred or assigned to any person not being a member of the said Company, without the owner thereof has made an offer of it or them to the Board of Directors; which Directors, or any other share- holder whom they may name for that purpose, shall be entitled to receive an assignment of said share or shares, on giving as high a price therefor as can be obtained from any other person not a member of the said Company; and any person not a member of the said Cor- poration becoming an assignce or owner of any share or shares in the said Corporation, shall, after lodging an acknowledgment from

the former owner of the share or shares of. his. transfer with the Directors, shall be entitled to the rights and profits of a shareholder; and the person from whom the transfer was re» ceived, shall, after the date thereof, cease ti.- exercise any privilege, receive any profit, or be liable to any call which may pertain to the ownership of the share or shares transferred.

XIII. .The joint stock and the real and personal property of the said Corporation, shall be liable for and subject to the payment of all debts contracted by the said Company; but nothing in this Act shall be so construed as tu render any member, or stockholder, liable for any debt or debts of, or demands against the said Corporation, or subject to any call or assessment which may be made by the said Company, either at a general meeting or through its Board of Directors, for a greater amount than the sum unpaid on each and every share which he may hold or possess in the said ' Corporation, that is to say: no member or stockholder shall be liable, on any pretence whatsoever, to pay a greater sum of money in the whole, from the first call or instalment and claim, than the sum of five pounds for each and every share held or possessed by said member or stock holder in the said Corporation, at the time of ordering any call or assessment, or the. preferment of any claim against the said Com- pany.

XIV. The said Corporation shall cause to be kept in one or more books a register of its members, which shall contain their names, addresses, and occupations, if any, a statement of the shares held by each member, distinguish- ing each share by its member, and of the amount paid on the shares of each member, the date at which the name of any person was or:- tered in the register as a member, and the date at which any person ceased to be a member; and the said Corporation shall also, within. fourteen days after the time of holding the annual meeting of the said Company in each and every year, cause to be entered in a separ- ate part of the said register a list of all the persons who were members of the Campany 011 the first Monday in January, in the year in which the said list shall be so prepared, whic'i said list shall state the names, addresses, and. occupations of all the members of the Com-

pany at said date, and number of shares held