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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.