Acts Passed at the ... Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky

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J. Bradford, printer to the Commonwealth, 1818 - Session laws
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Page 409 - That, in case it should at any time happen, that an election of directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not, for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved ; but it shall be lawful, on any other day, to...
Page 390 - Treasurer thereof promising the payment of money to any person or persons his her or their order or to bearer...
Page 385 - States : and also to make, have, and use, a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew, at their pleasure: and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution...
Page 385 - And by that name, shall be, and are hereby made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and effects of...
Page 412 - Corporation, which shall be made to any person, or persons, shall be assignable, by endorsement thereupon, under the hand or hands of such person or persons, and of his, her, or their assignee, or assignees, and so as absolutely to transfer and vest the property thereof in each and every assignee, or assignees, successively...
Page 385 - SOCIETY, and for the purposes aforesaid, and by the name aforesaid shall have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with full power and authority to alter, vary, break, and renew the same at their discretion, and by the same name to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto...
Page 388 - ... one vote: For every six shares above thirty, and not exceeding sixty, one vote: For every eight shares above sixty, and not exceeding one hundred, one vote: and for every ten shares above one hundred, one vote: But no person, copartnership or body politic shall be entitled to a greater number than thirty votes. And after the first election no share or shares shall confer a right of suffrage, which shall not have been holden three calendar months previous to the day of election.
Page 481 - ... capital stock, and the increase and profits thereof, and of enlarging the same from time to time by new subscriptions, in such manner and form as they shall think proper, if such enlargement shall be found necessary to...
Page 413 - Such of the said directors, who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act whereby the same was so contracted or created, may respectively exonerate themselves from being so liable, by forthwith giving notice of the fact, and of their absence or dissent, to the president of the United States, and to the stockholders, at a general meeting, which they shall have power to call for that purpose.
Page 543 - ... assignee holding any certificate, having first caused the assignment to be entered in a book of the company to be kept for...

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