A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

tioned in section third of this act, who shall con-
tinue in office for one year, and until others are
chosen, and the said stockholders shall meet at
such other times as they may be summoned to do
so by the Directors in such manner and forrn as
shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said compa-
ny; and at the annual and special meetings they
shall have full power to do any corporate act con-
sistent with this charter, and the number of votes
to which each stockholder shall be entitled to cast,
shall be according to the number of shares he may
hold, each share entitling to one vote; but no share
shall entitle or confer a right of suffrage which
shall not have been held at least one calender
month before the day of election, nor unless it be
held by the person in whose name it appears abso-
lutely and bona fide in his own right or in right
of his wife, or for his or her sole use and benefit,
or as executor or administrator, trustee or guar-
dian, or in the right and for the use and benefit
of some co-partnership, corporation or society, of
which he or she may be a member, and not in trust
for, and to the use and benefit of any other person,
and in all voting by proxy, attorney shall be le-
gally constituted.

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Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the election of
officers aforesaid, shall be conducted in the follow-
ing manner, to wit: the Directors for the time be-
ing shall appoint three of the stockholders not be-
ing Directors, to be Judges of the said election, who
shall conduct the same after having severally taken
an oath or affirmation before a Judge of the Cir-
cuit Court, or a Justice of the Peace, well and tru-
ly, according to law, to conduct such election, and
the said Judges, or a majority of them, shall de-
cide upon the qualification of the voters, and when
the election is closed shall count the votes, and de-
clare who has been elected, and if it shall at any
time happen that an election of any one or all the
officers of said company shall not be made, the
corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to
be dissolved, but it shall be lawful to hold an elec-
tion for President, Directors, Treasurer and other
officers, upon the same day or upon any other day
thereafter, by giving ten days notice thereof, in
newspapers before named, signed by the President
or Secretary, of the time and place of holding said
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Election of
officers.