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176 RULES OF ORDER.

‘ing should be an ordinary or an extraordinary one must depend on the nature of the business and the regulations. Notice must be given of special resolu- tions (see ahove, p. 164), and it must be duly submit- ted by the chairman to the decision of the meeting when debate thereon is closed as in the case of all motions in all public assemblies (see above, p. 16). A resolution which for want of sufficient notice is invalid cannot Le ratified by a subsequent general meeting, for the powers of the latter are limited to acts within the laws or regulations (m).

10. Books.

Palmer gives the following books as necessary for

the correct transaction of the business of every com- pany :— 1. Register of members, p. 80. 2. The share ledger, App. Form, 23, 3. Register of documents, containing particulars of all documents not recorded in other books. 4. The certificate book contained forms of certificates of title, p. 5. 5. Transfer register. 6. Transfer certificate book, p. 13, 7. Minute books of general meetings [see above, p. 170]. 8. Directors’ minute book [see above, p. 170]. 9. Directors’ attendance book, 10. Seal book. 11. Postal book. 12. Register of mortgages, p. 34.

(m) Lawes’s Case, 1 D. M. & G. 421.

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