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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 88
Proceedings of Directors
Proceedings of Directors.
55. The Directors may meet for the dispatch of business, adjourn, and otherwise regulate their meetings as they think fit, and determine the quorum necessary for the transaction of business. Questions arising at any meeting shall be decided by a majority of votes. In case of an equality of votes the Chairman, in addition to his original vote, shall have a casting vote. A Director may at any time summon a meeting of the Directors.
56. The Directors may elect a Chairman of their meetings, and determine the period for which he is to hold office; but if no such Chairman is elected, or if at any meeting the Chairman is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the Directors present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.
57. The Directors may delegate any of their powers to Committees, consisting of such member or members of their body as they think fit. Any Committee so formed shall in the exercise of the powers so delegated conform to any regulations that may be imposed on them by the Directors.
58. A Committee may elect a Chairman of its meetings. If no such Chairman is elected, or if he is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.
59. A Committee may meet and adjourn as they think proper. Questions at any meetings shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present, and in case of an equal division of votes the Chairman shall have a casting vote.
60. All acts done by any meeting of the Directors, or of a Committee of Directors, or by any person acting as a Director, shall, notwithstanding that it be after wards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such Directors or persons acting as aforesaid, or that they, or any of
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them, were disqualified, be as valid as if every such person bad been duly appointed and was qualified to be a Director.
| (1.) | Of all appointments of offices made by the Directors. |
| (2.) | Of the names of the Directors present at each meeting of Directors and Committees of Directors. |
| (3.) | Of all orders made by the Directors and Committees of Directors, and |
| (4.) | Of all resolutions and proceedings of meetings of the Company, and of the Directors and Committees of Directors. |
And any such minutes as aforesaid, if signed by any person purporting to be the chairman of any meeting of Directors or Committee of Directors, shall be receivable in evidence without any further proof.
62 The Company in general meeting may, by a special resolution, remove any Director before the expiration of his period of office, and appoint another qualified person in his stead. The person so appointed shall hold office during such time only as the Director in whose place he is appointed would have held the same if he had not been removed.