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THOMAS SWANN. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 447
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ing, and if they see proper may limit the number
of shares which each stockholder may hold at any
one time ; and the Corporation shall have power
to enforce the payment of all installments and other
dues due to the Corporation from its members or
stockholders, by such fines and forfeitures as the
Directors may from time to time provide in the by-
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laws ; and every member shall have one vote for
every share of unredeemed stock which he may
hold at any meeting of stockholders or election for
Directors ; and no one shall be eligible as Presi-
dent, Vice President or Director who is not the
bona fide owner in his own right of one or more
shares of unredeemed stock ; and upon his ceasing
to hold, in his own right, unredeemed stock, it
shall be the dutyof the Board of Directors to de-
clare his or their office or offices vacant, and to fill
the vacany.
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Vacancy,
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Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or
persons applying for membership or for stock in
said Corporation after the end of one month from
the time of incorporation, may be required to pay,
on subscribing, such bonus or assessment as may
from time to time be fixed or assessed by the Board
of Directors, in order to place such new members
or stockholders on a footing with the original mem-
bers and others holding unredeemed shares at the
time of such application.
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Bonus.
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Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the said corporation at any time in
advance of the period or periods of time at which
the several installments on the shares or stock of
any member shall become due and entirely paid
up, according to the provisions in the fourth Sec-
tion of this Act, to redeem the same and to ad-
vance to such member for such premium as may be
agreed upon the par value of four hundred dollars
per share thereof for any number of shares therein
held by him, at such a sum or price as such member
rnay agree to receive, or to loan the said sum for a
period of years deducting the interest thereof in ad-
vance, and on payment of said sum of money by the
Society to receive from such member a transfer of all
his interest in such share or shares, and also se-
curity by way of mortgage on real or personal pro-
perty or hypothecation of unredeemed shares or
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Paid up.
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