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XIII. The Directors may whenever they think fit, and they shall, upon a requisition made to them in writing by not less than ten members ofthe said Company, convene an extraordinary general meet- ing of the members of the said Corporation, which requisition shall express the object of the meeting proposed to be called, and shall be left at the office ofthe Company; on the receipt of which the Direc- tors shall call the said extrordinary general 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 oflice ofthe said Corporation; and in the event of the Directors re- fusing 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.

XIV. At any extraordinary 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 Company, or 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, personally or by proxy, at the said annual meeting, 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 Corpor— ation, or the major part of them, to remove any Director and fill up the vacancy so occasioned, or any vacancy otherwise occasioned, and transact any 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.

XV. Theshares 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 thereofhas made an offer of it or them to the Board of Directors, which Directors, or any other shareholder whom they may name for that purpose, shall be entitled to receive an assign- ment of said share or shares, on giving as high a price therefor as can be obtained from any other person not a member ofthe said Company; and any person not a member of the said Corporation, becoming an assignee or owner of any share or shares in the said Corporation, shall, alter 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 share- holder, and the person from whom the transfer was received shall, after the date thereof, cease to exer— 0156 any privilege, receive any profit, or be liable to any call which may pertain to the ownership of the share or shares so transferred.

XVI. "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 to render any member or stock-

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holder liable to any dsbt or (33th of or demands

against the said Corporation, or subject to any call or assessment which may be made by the said Com- pany, 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 to the last call or instalment and claim, than the sum of ten pounds for each and every share held or possessed by said member or stockholder in the said Corporation at the time of ordering any call or as- sessment, or the preferincnt of any claim against the

said Company.

XVII. 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 oc- cupations, if any, a statement of the shares held by each member, distinguishing each share by its num- ber and of the amount paid on the shares of each member, the date at which the name of any person

’ was entered 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 separate part ofthe said register, a list of all persons who Were members of the said Company on the last Tuesday of January in the year in which the said list shall be so prepared, which said list shall state the names, addresses and occupations of all the members of the Company at said date, and number of shares held by each ofsaid members; and shall contain a summary specifying the number of shares taken from the commencement ofthe Company up to the said date, the total amount of calls made in each share, the total amount of calls received, the total amount of calls unpaid, the total amount of shares forfeited, and the liabilities and assets of the said Company at the said date, namely, the last Tuesday of January in the year in which the said summary shall be drawn up, which register, containing said list and summary, shall be kept in the business office ofthe said Company, and shall be open at all reasonable times to the inspection ofeach and every member ofthe said Company free of charge, and to every other person on the payment of one shilling; and if such inspection be refused, any officer of the Company refusing the same, and every Director of the Company knowingly periiiitw ting such refusal, shall, for every such refusal, incur a penalty not exceeding two pounds, to be recovered in the Courts ofLaw in this Island as in such cases is made and provided.

(‘ouiicil Otlice, August 14, lb 66.

IS EXCellcncy the Lieutenant Governor in Council was this

day pleased to fix and determine the rate at which the

amount of the Invoice of Dutiablc Goods imported into this Is-

land from the United States of America, shall, in estimating the

duties payable thereon, be reduced into current money of the Island, as follows:—

In all cases where such Invoices shall be made out in Dollars and Cents of the paper Currency of the United States. the amount of such Invoice shall be reduced into current money of this Island, by allowing for each Dollar the sum of Fouit b‘Hii.i.iNGs, and in the

like proportion for any fraction of a, Dollar; of which all Colloc~

tors of Impost are to take notice and govern themselves accor-

dingly, ‘ CHARLES DESBRISAY, C. E. G,