Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

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Identifikator:: 832922498

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-79587

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report from the Select Committee on Slave Trade (East Coast of Africa); together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index

Place of publication:: [London]

Publisher:: [The House of Commons]

Year of publication:: 1871

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 242 S.)

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762 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 12. If within half an 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 the adjourned meeting a, quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting the members present shall be a quorum. 13. The chairman, if any, of the board of directors shall preside as chairman at every general meeting of the company. 14. 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 or is unwilling to act as chairman, the members present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman. 15. The chairman may, with the consent of any meeting at which a quorum is present (and shall if so directed by the meeting), adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place, but nc business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjourn- ment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for ten days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be trans- acted at an adjourned meeting. 16. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands, unless a poll is (before or. on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded by at least two members present in person or by proxy entitled tc vote and unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the chairman that a resolution has, on a show of hands, been carried, or carried nnanimously, or by a particular majority, or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book of the proceedings of the company, shall be con- clusive evidence of the fact, without proof of the number or proportion of the votes recorded in favour of, or against, that resolution. 17. If a poll is duly demanded it shall be taken in such manner as the chairman directs, and the result of the poll shall be deemed tc be the resolution of the meeting at which the poll was demanded. 18. In the case of an equality of votes, whether on a show of hands or on a poll, the chairman of the meeting at which the show of hands takes place or at which the poll is demanded. shall be entitled to 2 second or casting vote. ~ 19. A poll demanded on the election of a chairman, or on a guestion of adjournment, shall be taken forthwith. A poll de- manded on any other question shall be taken at such time as the chairman of the meeting directs.

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