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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- 
     
    
   
   
    
     YAL GAZETTE. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     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,