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52. The Directors may, whenever they think fit, and they shall upon a requisition made in writing by any number of members holding at the date of the deposit of the requisition not less than one-tenth in nominal value of such of the shares of the Company as at the date of the deposit carry the right of voting at general meetings of the Company, convene an extraordinary general meeting. 53. Any such requisition shall specify the objects of the meeting and shall be signed by the persons making the same and shall be deposited at the Registered Office of the Company. It may consist of several documents in the like form each signed by one or more of the requisitionists. The meeting must be convened for the purposes specified in the requisition and for those purposes only. 54. If the Directors do not within twenty-one days from the date of the deposit of the requisition proceed to convene an extraordinary general meeting to be held within forty days from the said date, the requisitionists, or any of them representing more than one-half of the total voting rights of all of them, may themselves convene a meeting, but any meeting so convened shall not be held after the expiration of three months from the said date. 55. Subject to the provisions of section 125 (2) of the Act relating to special resolutions, seven clear days' notice specifying the place, the day, and the hour of meeting, and, in case of special business, the general nature of that business shall be given in manner hereinafter mentioned, or in such other manner, if any, as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting, to such persons as are, under the regulations of the Company, entitled to receive such notices from the Company ;• but with the consent of all the members entitled to receive notice of some particular meeting, that meeting may be convened by such shorter notice and in such manner as those members may think fit; but the accidental omission to give such notice to any member or the non-receipt of such notice by any member shall not invalidate the proceedings at any general meeting. 56. The business of an ordinary general meeting (other than the statutory meeting) shall be to receive and consider the statement of income and expenditure, and the balance-sheet, the reports of the Directors and of the auditor, and any matters incidental thereto, to elect Directors and other officers in the place of those retiring by rotation, to fix the remuneration of the auditors, and to decide on the recommendation of the Directors as regards dividends, and to transact any other business which, by statute, ought to be transacted at an ordinary meeting. All other business transacted at an ordinary general -meeting, and all business transacted at an extraordinary general meeting, shall be deemed special. PROCEEDINGS AT GENERAL MEETINGS 57. No business shall be transacted at any general meeting unless a quorum of members is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business. 58. A quorum shall consist of not less than bona fide members personally present and holding or representing by proxy not less than shares of the Company. 59. If within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present, the meeting, if convened upon such requisition as aforesaid, shall be dissolved; but in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place, and if at such adjourned meeting a quorum be not present, those members who are present shall be a quorum and may transact the business for which the meeting was called. 60. The Chairman of Directors shall be entitled to take the chair at every general meeting, or if there be no such Chairman, or if at any meeting he shall not be present within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for holding such meeting, the Deputy Chairman of Directors shall be entitled to take the chair, or if there be no such Deputy Chairman or if at any meeting he shall not be present as hereinbefore provided, the bona fide members present shall choose another Director as Chairman; and if no Director be present, or if all Directors present decline to take the chair, then the bona fide members present shall choose one of their number to be Chairman. 61. The Chairman may, with the consent of the meeting, adjourn any meeting from time to time and from place to place, but no business shall be transacted at any adjourned meeting other than the business left unfinished at the meeting from which the adjournment took place. When a meeting is adjourned for twenty-one days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given as in the case of an original meeting. Save as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to give any notice of an adjournment or of the business to be transacted at an adjourned meeting. MEETINGS PRIVATE 62. The meetings of the Company shall be regarded as private meetings. Persons other than members may be present thereat only during the pleasure of the Chairman of such meeting. 63. Every question submitted to a meeting shall be decided in the first instance by a show of hands of the bona fide members ; and in the case of an equality of votes the Chairman shall, both on a show of hands and at a poll, have a easting vote in addition to the vote or votes to which he may be entitled as a bona fide member. 64. At any general meeting, unless a poll is demanded by the Chairman or by at least five bona fide members holding or representing by proxy and entitled to vote in respect of at least one-tenth of the capital held by the bona fide members represented at the meeting, a declaration by the Chairman