Compante. |Ch. 31. No. 1. Alteration of capital, The company may from time to time by ordinary resohition inerease the the ire capital by such sum, to be divided into shares of sueh amount, as the resolution shall preseribe, 35, Subject to any direction to the contrary that may be given by the company in general meeting, all new shares shall, before issue, be offered fo such persons as at the date of the offer are entitled to receive notices fram the company of gencral mechngs in, proportion, as nearly as the ciremmstances admit, to the amount of the existing shares to which they are entitled, The offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of shares offered, and limiting a Gime Within which the offer, if not accepted, will be deemed to be dechned, and after (he expiration of that time, oron the receipt ofan intimation from the person to whons the offer is made that he declines to accept the shares offered, the directors may dispose of those shares in such manner as they Chink most beneficial to the company. The directors may likewise so dispose of any new shares which (by reason of the ratio which the new shares bear lo shares held by persons entitled to an offer of new shares) cannot, inthe opinion of the directors, be convenic nily offered under this article, 46, The new share. shall be subject to the came provisions with reference fo the payment of calls, lien, Cransfer, Cransntission, forfeiture, and otherwise as the shares in the original share capital. The company may by ordinary resolution (@) consolidate and divide allor any ofits shi capital into share. of larger amount than its existing share (4) sub-divide its existing share., or any of them into shares of stnaller amount than is fixed by the memorandum of association, subject: nevertheless, (othe provisions of section 52 (1) (ad) of the Ordinance. (c) cancel any shares which, at the date of the passing of the solution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person, The company may by special resolution reduce its share capital and any epi U redemption reserve fund in any manner and with, and subject to, any incident authorised, and consent required, by law. General mectings. 39, A general meeting shall be held once in every calendar year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding general meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting, or, in default, at such time in the third month following that in which the anniversary of the company’s incorporation occurs, and at such place, as the directors shall appoint. In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall be held in the month next following, and may be convened by any two members in the same manner ats nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the directors. The above-mentioned general meetings shall be called ordinary