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preferences, restrictions and qualifications of each class,
specifying the amount of each class authorized and the amount
of each class to be issued for stock of the consolidating cor-
porations; (k) the manner of converting the capital stock of
each of the consolidating corporations into stock of the new
corporation; (1) all such other provisions and details which
shall be deemed necessary to perfect the consolidation. The
agreement of consolidation may also contain any amendment
or amendments which may be desired, but if such amendment
or amendments be made therein, the agreement of consolida-
tion shall contain all the matters and things required to be
stated in articles of amendment when such amendment or
amendments is or are under the provisions of Sections 24 to
28, inclusive, of this Article; and no amendment not author-
ized by said sections may be made, but this provision shall not
prevent the issuance of an amount of stock of the new corpora-
tion greater or less than the stock of the consolidating cor-
porations for which it is exchanged. The agreement of con-
solidation shall first be submitted to the boards of directors of
the consolidating corporations which shall pass resolutions
declaring that such consolidation is advisable and calling
separate meetings of the stockholders of the respective con-
solidating corporations to take action thereon. The meeting
of the stockholders shall be duly warned in the manner pro-
vided in Section 15 of this Article. If said agreement of con-
solidation be approved by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of
all of the shares (or, if two or more classes of shares have been
issued, of two-thirds of each class), outstanding and entitled
to vote, of each consolidating corporation at such separate
meetings, it shall be signed and acknowledged in the names of
the respective consolidating corporations on behalf thereof by
their respective presidents or vice-presidents with their
respective corporate seals attached, attested by their respective
secretaries or assistant secretaries. There shall be attached
to said agreement of consolidation the affidavits of the chair-
man or the secretaries of the respective stockholders' meetings
that the same was duly advised by the boards of directors and
approved by the stockholders of their respective corporations.
Said agreement of consolidation, together with a copy thereof,
shall be delivered to the State Tax Commission, which, upon
the payment, and not before, of the recording fees for which
provision is hereinafter made, and upon the payment, and not