Actions |
Service of Process in |
115 |
To be commenced and defended by Directors |
113 |
Partnership not to be pleaded |
114 |
No objection to be taken on the ground of nonjoinder |
114 |
Admission in |
114 |
Printed copies of Deeds, Evidence in |
116 |
Adjournment of General Meetings for insufficient attendance |
92 |
To be notified to Proprietors |
93 |
Administrator (see Executor) |
|
Agencies |
Establishment of, one of the objects of Company |
5 |
Power to establish |
6 |
Allotment |
Of one-half of Shares Vested in President, how to be made |
8 |
Arbitration |
Directors may refer to |
113 |
Assignment of Shares |
How made |
20 |
Of new Shares |
16 |
Of forfeited Shares |
17 |
Of Shares in excess of number allowed to be held by one Proprietor, when to be made |
23 |
Transfer or Deed to be kept at Company's Office |
30 |
Effect of Refusal of Company to sanction Transfer of Shares held in trust |
31 |
Auditors |
First election of |
41 |
Term of office of first |
96 |
To declare acceptance of office |
49 |
Retiring to continue until acceptance by new, but not beyond next Half-yearly General Meeting |
49 |
Not accepting office, appointment to lapse |
49 |
Directors to give notice of lapse |
49 |
Reports of, to be printed and circulated |
94 |
Appointment of, generally |
97 |
Powers of |
98 |
Qualification of |
99 |
Vacancy in office of |
100 |
Remuneration to |
101 |
Half-yearly Audit and Balance Sheet |
102 |
Special may be appointed by General Meeting |
104 |
Bound to Secrecy |
111 |
Ballot |
Proprietor entitled to demand a |
86 |
Balance Sheet |
|
To be prepared half-yearly, and submitted to Auditors |
102 |
To be brought before Half-yearly Meeting |
102 |
Half-yearly to be printed and circulated |
94 |
Banking Business |
|
What comprehended under term |
5 |
Bank Notes |
|
Form and amount of, to be determined by Directors |
61
|
Bankruptcy |
|
Directors may take proceedings in, against Debtors |
113 |
Of Proprietors not to dissolve partnership |
126 |
Company may take benefit of Acts relating to |
128 |
Bankrupt Proprietors |
|
Who entitled to be registered Proprietor of Shares of |
33 |
When Shares of may be sold by Directors |
33 |
Transmission of Shares of, how proved |
34, 35 |
Bonus (see Reserve Fund) |
|
Books of the Company |
|
As between Proprietors, to be conclusive evidence |
30 |
To be kept at the Banking House |
67 |
Branch Banks |
|
Power to establish |
6, 60 |
Appointment of Managers and Local Directors |
73 |
Managers of to give security |
74 |
Remuneration to Local Directors and Managers of |
75 |
Removal of Local Directors and Managers of |
76 |
Branch Managers |
|
To be appointed by Board |
73 |
To give security |
74 |
Remuneration to |
75 |
Removal of |
76 |
Business of Company |
|
Places of Business |
6 |
When may be commenced |
7 |
Bye-laws |
|
Power to Directors to make |
58 |
To be confirmed at Half-yearly Meeting |
58 |
Calls |
|
Agreement to pay |
9 |
How to be made |
10 |
Interest upon and recovery of |
11 |
Agreement to pay to meet losses |
12 |
If not paid, Shares forfeited |
13 |
In cases of Emergency |
12, 124 |
Limit to |
12, 124 |
Directors may enforce payment of |
13, 124 |
Directors may sell Shares to pay |
13, 124 |
If unpaid, Shares not to be transferred |
21 |
May be enforced, although Deed not executed |
24 |
To be paid before Proprietor allowed to attend or vote at Meetings |
26 |
Or receive dividends |
26 |
No dividends if, in arrear |
110 |
Capital |
|
Amount of, and how divided |
7 |
To be personalty |
19 |
Power to increase |
14 |
Number of Proprietors required for that purpose |
14 |
May be diminished and returned and again re-called |
125 |
Cashier (see Offices of Company) |
|
Certificates |
|
Of Proprietorship to be given by Directors |
36 |
Cestui que Trust |
|
As such cannot be Proprietor |
32 |
Chairman (see President) |
|
Clerks (see Offices of Company) |
|
Company |
|
Style of |
1 |
Management of reposed in Directors |
3 |
Objects of |
5 |
Places of business of |
6 |
Capital of |
7 |
Lien of on Shares, dividends, and interest |
22 |
May enforce payment of Calls although Deed not executed |
24 |
Not bound by trusts |
31
|
Company |
|
Books of, evidence in matters in dispute |
36 |
To reimburse Proprietors for damages, &c |
117 |
Dissolution of by resolution |
121 |
Number of Proprietors required for that purpose |
121 |
Power of retained, notwithstanding dissolution |
122 |
Capital may be reduced and returned |
125 |
Not to be dissolved, except under Deed |
126 |
Affairs of, when to be wound up |
127 |
May take benefit of Bankrupt or Insolvent Acts |
128 |
Covenant |
|
General and mutual |
1 |
To observe Articles, &c. |
2 |
By individual parties to indemnify Company |
3 |
Criminal Prosecutions |
|
To be undertaken by Directors |
113 |
Deed of Settlement |
|
Provisions of, contrary to Act of Parliament to be suspended |
4 |
No Proprietorship till executed |
24 |
Execution of, not to confer rights if deposit and calls in arrear |
25 |
Transferree of Shares to execute |
27 |
Until executed by Transferree, Transferror deemed Proprietor |
27 |
No dividend to be paid to Proprietors who have not executed |
110 |
Partnership created by, not to be pleaded in bar |
114 |
To be produced on trials |
114 |
Directors, Local |
|
Appointment and powers of |
73 |
Remuneration to |
75 |
Removal of |
76 |
Directors |
|
Whole management of business reposed in |
3 |
To apply to General Assembly for an Act to incorporate Company |
4 |
To comply with provisions of such Act, or any other Act |
4 |
May establish Branches and Agencies |
6 |
Power to make calls |
10 |
Power to make calls in cases of emergency |
12, 124 |
May discharge forfeiture of shares |
13 |
May sell shares of defaulters |
13 |
May enforce payment of calls |
13 |
Effect of refusal of, to sanction transfer of Shares held in trust |
31 |
When may sell Shares of female, dead, lunatic, or bankrupt Proprietor |
33 |
Constitution and general powers of |
37 |
Qualification and disqualification of |
38 |
Removal of disqualified |
39 |
Provisional Directors, appointment and powers of |
40 |
First election of |
42 |
Retirement of |
43 |
Resignation or removal of |
43 |
Casual vacancy |
44 |
Notice by candidates for office of Directors |
45 |
Names of candidates for office to be published |
45 |
Mode of election of |
46 |
Equality of votes on election of |
47 |
Defects in election of |
48 |
To declare acceptance of office |
49 |
Not accepting, appointment to lapse |
49 |
Retiring, to continue in office until acceptance of office by new, but not beyond next Half-yearly General Meeting |
49 |
To give notice of lapse |
49 |
Unqualified or disqualified person acting as |
50 |
Shares of liable for penalty |
50 |
Resolutions of may be rescinded |
53 |
Votes of majority of to decide questions |
54 |
Chairman of to have a casting vote |
55 |
Interested not to vote |
56 |
Protest by two against discount, &c. |
56 |
To keep Minutes of Proceedings |
57 |
May make Bye-Laws |
58
|
Directors |
|
General powers of |
59 |
May establish branches |
60 |
To regulate form of Bank-notes |
61 |
May purchase or lease land for offices, and sell same |
62 |
May take land, &c., in payment of debts |
63 |
May take land, &c., as security for debts |
64 |
May take liens and mortgages |
65 |
May purchase business and property of any other Bank |
66 |
To cause Books of Account to be kept |
67 |
May negotiate securities |
68 |
May delegate powers |
69, 71 |
To elect President |
70 |
To appoint officers, clerks, &c. |
71 |
To appoint Branch Managers and Local Directors |
73 |
To convene Special Meetings |
79-81 |
To make half-yearly balance |
102 |
To make half-yearly report |
105 |
Half-yearly report and balance-sheet of, to be printed and circulated |
94 |
To deduct bad and doubtful debts from half-year's gross profits |
103 |
To recommend appropriation of profits |
105 |
To recommend declaration of bonus |
106 |
Obligation of secrecy |
111 |
To commence and defend actions |
113 |
To compromise or refer to arbitration |
113 |
To compound, give time, &c. |
113 |
To prosecute criminally |
113 |
Indemnity to |
119 |
Responsible for their own acts |
120 |
May recommend dissolution of Company |
121 |
Powers of, to continue in force till Company wound up |
122 |
In case of losses to submit statement to Special General Meeting |
123 |
May take benefit of Insolvent or Bankrupt Acts for Company |
128 |
Dissolution |
|
Of Company by resolution |
121 |
Of Company in case of losses |
123 |
Company not to be dissolved except under Deed |
126 |
Affairs, when to be wound up |
127 |
Dividends |
|
Company's lien on |
22 |
On shares in excess of number allowed to be held by one Proprietor |
23 |
Defaulting Proprietor not entitled to |
26 |
Of female Proprietor marrying, or of deceased, lunatic, or bankrupt Proprietor |
33 |
Unclaimed |
108 |
When to be payable |
109 |
On Shares, if calls in arrear |
110 |
On Shares of Proprietors who have not executed Deed |
110 |
No interest to be paid on |
110 |
On forfeited Shares |
110 |
Executor |
|
To be entitled to become Proprietor |
32,33 |
Evidence |
|
Books of Company, in all matters of dispute |
36 |
Minutes of Meeting of Directors |
57 |
Testimony of Secretary, &c., of service of notices |
83 |
Minutes of proceedings of General Meetings to be |
95 |
Deed to be produced in |
114 |
Printed copy of Deed made |
116 |
Forfeiture |
|
Of Shares |
13, 17, 22 |
Power to discharge |
13, 17, 27 |
Of Shares in excess of number allowed to be hold by one Proprietor |
23 |
Dividends on forfeited Shares |
110 |
If Proprietor pleads partnership |
114 |
Indemnity to Officers |
119 |
Insolvent (sec Bankrupt Proprietor) |
119 |
Insolvency (see Bankruptcy) |
|
Interpretation Clause |
129
|
Land |
|
Power to purchase, or lease, and sell |
62 |
May be taken in satisfaction of, and to secure debts |
63,64 |
Mortgages of may be taken by the Company |
65 |
Laws and Regulations |
|
General Meeting of Proprietors may make new, and amend existing |
84 |
Confirmation of such by Proprietors |
84 |
Defective votes at meeting making or altering |
85 |
Legatee |
|
As such cannot be Proprietor |
32 |
Legal Proceedings |
|
Service of |
115 |
Printed copies of Deed, evidence in |
116 |
Liability |
|
Limitation of Proprietors' |
12 |
Liens |
|
On wool |
65 |
Losses |
|
Agreement to pay calls to meet |
12 |
Lunatics |
|
Committee, or Guardians of, claiming Shares or Dividends |
33, 34, 35 |
Meetings of Directors |
|
Number necessary to form a quorum |
37 |
Any Director can convene a Special Meeting |
52 |
Resolutions passed at, may be rescinded, amended, or altered |
53 |
Votes at |
54 |
Chairman to have casting vote |
54 |
Director interested not to vote at |
55 |
Protest at against discount, &c. |
56 |
Minutes of proceedings to be kept |
57 |
General powers of |
59 |
Meetings of Proprietors— |
|
General |
|
May croate new Shares |
14 |
May remove Director |
43 |
May make new and alter existing laws and regulations |
84 |
Defective votes at |
85 |
Votes and voting at |
86 |
Paid Officers not to vote at |
89 |
Interested Proprietor not to vote at |
91 |
Adjournment of for insufficient attendance |
92, 88 |
Adjournment of to be notified to Proprietors |
93 |
Minutes of to be kept |
95 |
Half-yearly |
|
Time and place of holding |
77 |
Notice of to be given |
77 |
Notice of to be given Business of |
78 |
Notice of business to be brought before by Proprietor to be given |
78 |
Defective votes at |
85 |
Chairman of |
90 |
Votes of Chairman of |
90 |
Report, balance sheet, and minutes of proceedings of to be printed and circulated |
94 |
May direct further audit |
104 |
May appoint special auditors to make further audit |
104 |
Directors report at |
105 |
When may declare bonus |
106 |
May resolve on Dissolution of Company |
121 |
May diminish Capital |
125 |
Special General |
|
Calling of, and when and where to be held |
79 |
Proprietors holding 20,000 Shares may call |
79 |
Twenty-one days' notice of to be given |
80 |
In cases of emergency and urgency |
81 |
Directors or Proprietors may give notice of by circular |
82 |
Proof of service of circulars calling |
83 |
Defective votes at |
85
|
Special General |
|
Chairman of |
90 |
Votes of Chairman of |
90 |
To be held for first election of Directors and Auditors |
41, 96 |
May resolve on winding up of Company |
123 |
Minutes |
|
Of proceedings of Directors to be kept |
57 |
May be corrected |
57 |
Of proceedings of half-yearly General Meetings to be printed and circulated |
95 |
Of proceedings of General Meetings to be kept |
95 |
Of proceedings of General Meetings may be corrected |
95 |
Mortgage |
|
Of land, ships, merchandize may be taken as security tor debts |
64 |
Description of property on which moneys may be advanced |
65 |
Next of Kin |
|
As such cannot be Proprietor |
32 |
New Laws |
|
Power of General Meeting to make |
84 |
Attendance of Proprietors for that purpose |
84 |
Notice |
|
Of half-yearly General Meetings |
77 |
Of adjournment of |
78 |
Proprietor to give, of intention to bring business before half-yearly General Meeting |
78 |
Of Special General Meetings |
80 |
Of Special General Meetings in ease of emergency |
81 |
By circulars |
82 |
Proof of service of |
83 |
To Company how to be served |
115 |
Officers of Company |
|
Appointment of |
71 |
Defects in appointment of |
48 |
To give security |
72 |
Not to vote |
89 |
Obligation of secrecy |
111 |
Indemnity to |
119 |
Responsibility of for wilful neglect |
120 |
Partnership |
|
Not to be pleaded |
114 |
Not to be dissolved by death, bankruptcy, felony, &c. |
126 |
Penalty |
|
Disqualified Director acting liable to |
50 |
Interested Director voting liable to |
50 |
Remission of |
55 |
Powers of Attorney |
|
To be produced and left |
35, 87 |
President |
|
One-half of Shares vested in |
8 |
Forfeited Shares vested in |
15 |
To transfer or assign Shares |
16, 17 |
Of Board of Directors to have casting vote |
54 |
Election of |
70 |
To preside at Meetings of Board |
70 |
To continue in office till expiration of his term of office as Director |
70 |
To preside at half-yearly General Meetings |
90 |
Votes of |
90 |
To have casting vote |
90 |
Indemnity to |
119 |
Responsible for his own acts |
120 |
Profit and Loss |
|
Bad and doubtful debts recovered to go to credit of |
103 |
Premiums on sale, of new and proceeds of Forfeited Shares, unclaimed Dividends, and all damages recovered, when to be placed to Credit of |
108 |
Balance of net profits after payment of dividends to go to credit of |
109 |
Process |
|
Service of, on the Company |
115
|
Proprietors |
|
Heirs, executors, and administrators of bound by Articles, &c. |
2 |
Renunciation by and covenant to indemnify Company |
3 |
Limitation of liability of |
12 |
Rights and liabilities of |
18 |
Rights and liability of new Shares |
18 |
Debts of to give a lien on Shares |
22 |
To hold limited number of Shares |
23 |
If excess acquired by marriage or as executor or administrator |
23 |
To execute Deed |
24 |
Not allowed to attend or vote at meetings or to receive dividends until all calls paid |
26 |
Of joint, one only to be recognised |
28 |
When released from liability |
29 |
Entitled to production of Deed or other instrument of transfer |
30 |
Executor or administrator of deceased only to be recognised |
32 |
Husband of female, executor or administrator of deceased, committee of lunatic, or trustee of bankrupt |
33 |
Entitled to certificate of Shares |
36 |
Removal of Directors by |
43 |
May call special General Meetings |
79 |
May give notice of same by circular letters |
82 |
When interested not to vote |
91 |
To pay individual debts to Company |
112 |
Not to plead partnership to any action |
114 |
To be reimbursed by Company |
117 |
Remedy of if not reimbursed |
118 |
Limitation of liability by |
118 |
Provisional Directors |
Appointment and powers of |
40 |
Proxy |
|
Vote by |
86 |
Must be a proprietor |
86 |
Form of |
87 |
To be delivered to Secretary twenty-four hours before meeting |
87 |
Lapses after six months |
87 |
Effect of |
88 |
Not to be held by paid officers other than Directors, &c. |
89 |
Of interested Proprietors |
91 |
Regulations |
|
General meeting may make new and amend existing |
84 |
Confirmation of such by Proprietors |
43 |
Defective votes at meeting making or altering |
84 |
Reports |
|
Directors to make half-yearly |
105 |
Half-yearly and other to be printed and circulated |
94 |
Reserve Fund |
|
How to be formed |
106 |
Bad and doubtful debts to be charged upon, and if recovered to be credited to |
103 |
When dividends and bonus may and may not be paid out of |
106 |
Payments to, when to cease |
107 |
Augmentation of |
108 |
Shares |
|
Division of Capital into |
7 |
One-half only open for allotment at date of execution or Deed |
8 |
Remaining vested in President in trust |
8 |
Allotment of remainder, how to be made |
10 |
Calls on, how to be made |
13 |
Forfeited if calls not paid |
22 |
Forfeited for non-payment of debts |
27 |
Forfeiture of, may be discharged |
27 |
Sale of, on non-payment of calls |
114 |
Forfeiture for pleading partnership |
14 |
Creation of new |
15 |
New and forfeited, vested in President |
108 |
Premiums on new and forfeited, to go to Reserve Fund |
16 |
Assignment of new |
17 |
Assignment of forfeited |
17
|
Shares |
|
Sale of forfeited |
17 |
Forfeited, may be withheld from sale |
17 |
To be personalty Transferable |
19 |
Fractional part of a Share cannot be transferred |
20 |
Not to be transferred till calls paid |
20 |
Debts of Proprietors to form a lien on |
21 |
Sale of, for non-payment of debts |
22 |
Limit of, to one Proprietor |
22 |
Tansfer of, in excess of limit, inoperative |
23 |
If excess acquired by marriage, or as executor or administrator |
23 |
Excess forfeited, when |
23 |
Transferee of, to sign Deed |
23 |
Transferror deemed Proprietor until Transferree executes Deed |
27 |
Forfeited, if Deed not executed |
27 |
Joint Proprietors of, one only recognised |
21 |
Transferror of, when released from liability |
29 |
Deed or other instrument of Transfer to be kept at Company's Office |
30 |
Of deceased Proprietor |
32 |
Of female Proprietor marrying, Executor or Administrator, Committee of lunatic, or Trustee of bankrupt Proprietor |
33 |
Transmission of, to be authenticated |
34 |
Proof of transmission by marriage, will, intestacy, bankruptcy, or lunacy |
35 |
Of disqualified Director acting liable for penalty |
50 |
Of interested Director voting liable for penalty |
55 |
No Dividend if Calls on in arrear |
110 |
No Dividend on, of Proprietors who have not executed Deed |
110 |
Dividends on forfeited |
110 |
Secrecy |
|
Obligation of, by Officers, &c |
111 |
Secretary |
|
Appointment of |
71 |
To give notice of Half-yearly Meetings |
77 |
Survivorship |
|
No benefit of in Shares |
19 |
Transfer (see Assignment) |
|
Transmission |
|
Title by how to be proved |
34, 35 |
Trustees |
|
Indemnity to |
119 |
Responsible for their own acts only |
120 |
Trusts |
|
Company not bound by |
31 |
No Legatee to be noticed but Executor only |
32 |
Votes |
|
In case of equality on election of Directors |
47 |
Of joint Proprietors |
28 |
Questions to be decided by majority of |
54 |
Of minority in certain cases |
56, 57 |
Of President at Meetings of Directors |
54 |
Defective |
85 |
Number and mode of voting |
86 |
By Proxy |
86, 87, 88 |
Of Chairman of Meetings |
90 |
Of interested Proprietors |
91 |
Of paid Officers other than Directors, &c |
81 |
Winding up |
|
Provisions relating to |
121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 128 |
Will |
|
Proof of Transmission by |
85 |
Wool Liens |
65 |