750 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
under the regulations of the company, entitled to receive such 
notices from the company; but with the consent of all the members 
entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting, that meeting 
may be convened by such shorter notice and in such manner as 
those members may think fit. 
43. The accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to, or 
the non-receipt of notice of a meeting by, anv member shall not 
invalidate the proceedings at any meeting. 
Proceedings at General Meetings. 
44. All business shall be deemed special that is transacted at an 
extraordinary meeting, and all that is transacted at an ordinary 
meeting, with the exception of sanctioning a dividend, the con- 
sideration of the ‘accounts, balance sheets, and the ordinary report 
of the directors and auditors, the election of directors and ‘other 
officers in the place of those retiring by rotation, and the fixing of 
the remuneration of the auditors. 
45. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless 
a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting 
proceeds to ‘business; save as herein otherwise provided, three 
members personally present shall be a quorum. 
46. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting 
a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon the requisi- 
tion 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. 
. 47. The chairman, if any, of the board of directors shall preside 
as chairman at every general meeting of the company. 
. 48. 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. 
- 49. . 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 no 
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: 
50. 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 three members present in person or by proxy entitled 
to vote or bv one member or two members so present and entitled,