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jority of votes then present their officers for the ensuing
year as mentioned in section three of this act, who shall
continue 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 so to do by the directors in
such manner and form as shall be prescribed by the by-
laws, and at the annual and special meetings they shall
have full power to do any corporate act consistent with
this charier, and the number of votes to which each
stockholder shall be entitled, shall be according to the
number of shares he may hold, each share entitling
him to one vote, but no share shall entitle or confer a
right of suffrage, which shall not have been held at
least one calendar month prior to the day of election,
nor unless it be holden by the person in whose name it
appears absolutely and bona fide in his own right or
in right of his wife, or for his or her sole use and bene-
fit or as executor or administrator, trustee or guardian or
in the light and for the use and benefit of some co-part-
nership, 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 legally constituted.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the election of of-
ficers aforesaid shall be conducted in the following man-
ner, that is to say: the directors for the time being shall
appoint thereof the stockholders not being directors to
be judges of the said election, and to conduct the same
after having severally taken and subscribed an oath or
affirmation before a judge or justice of the peace, well
and truly and according to law to conduct such election
and the said judges or a majority of them shall decide
upon the qualifications of the voters, and when the
election is closed shall count the votes and declare who
has been elected, and if it shall at any time happen that
an election of any one or all the officers of said com-
pany shall not be made the corporation shall not for
that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall be
lawful to hold and make such election of president, di-
rectors, treasurer or other officers on the same day, or
upon any day thereafter by giving ten days notice at
least thereof, signed by the president or secretary in
the newspapers as before mentioned, of the time and
place of holding said election and the president, direc-
tors and other officers last elected shall continue to act
and be invested with all the powers belonging to their
respective situations, until another election shall take
place; in case of the death, resignation, refusal or neglect
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