ARTICLE V.

The Governors present at the Annual Governors Meeting in each year shall elect one of their number or some other person to be President, and the President shall hold office until the next Annual Governors Meeting and shall be eligible for re-election : Provided always that the powers of this Our Charter conferred upon the Council and a Governors Meeting respectively shall continue to be exercisable notwithstanding a vacancy in the office of President. ARTICLE VI.

(i.) The persons now Governors of the Company known as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre shall be the first Governors of the Corporation.

(ii.) The Council shall have power from time to time by resolution to appoint one or more qualified person or persons to be an additional Governor or additional Governors.

(iii.) The following persons shall be qualified for appointment as Governors:

(a) Any person who shall have contributed to the funds of the Corporation a total sum of not less that One hundred pounds.

(b) The Mayor and Aldermen for the time being of the Borough of Stratford-on-Avon.

(c) Any person who in the opinion of the Council shall have rendered special services to the Corporation or to the purposes for which the Corporation is incorporated Provided always that the total number of Governors appointed under paragraph (iii.) (c) of this Article shall not at any time exceed five.

(iv.) Upon the resignation of a Governor (other than a Governor appointed under paragraph (iii.) (b) and (c) of this Article) he shall be entitled in writing under his hand to nominate some other person to be a Governor in his place, and upon the death of a Governor (other than as aforesaid) his legal personal representative or representatives shall be entitled to nominate. himself or one of themselves or some other person for election as a Governor and in any of the above cases a person so nominated shall be qualified for appointment as a Governor.

(v.) A Governor shall hold office until he dies or resigns or ceases to be a Governor under the provisions of Article XII. of this Our Charter (or in the case of a Governor appointed under paragraph (iii.) (b) of this Article until he ceases to hold the office of Mayor or Alderman as the case may be of the said Borough); and a Governor who becomes of unsound mind or a bankrupt shall be deemed to have resigned.

ARTICLE VII.

(i.) Subject to the provisions of this Our Charter the management of the property and affairs of the Corporation shall be vested

in a Council, which shall consist of the President and such number (not exceeding twenty) of the Governors as a Governors Meeting shall from time to time determine.

(ii.) The first Council shall consist of the following persons, namely:-Sir Frank Benson, Knight, Sir Henry Urwick, Knight, Sir Whitworth Wallis, Knight, Horace Barrett, Esquire, Ludford Charles Docker, Esquire, Richard Slingsby Peirse-Duncombe, Esquire, Archibald Dennis Flower, Esquire, Florence Flower, Spenser Aldborough Flower, Esquire, The Reverend Robert Stuart de Courcey Laffan, Charles Linnell, Esquire, Charles Lowndes, Esquire, The Reverend Canon Melville, Mrs. Eleanor Melville, and Norman Wilkinson, Esquire.

(iii.) The Council shall retire and a new Council shall be elected at each Annual Governors Meeting, Members of the old Council being eligible for re-election and the Council for the time being may fill up any vacancy which may occur in their body between one Annual Governors Meeting and another and may act notwithstanding such vacancy.

(iv.) The Council shall from time to time appoint one of their number to be Chairman of the Council for such term as they shall think fit.

(v.) There shall be a quorum when three (or such larger number as the Council may by regulation determine) Members of the Council are present and every question shall be decided by the majority of the Members of the Council present and voting thereon, and in case of equality the Chairman or person acting as Chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

(vi.) A meeting of the Council may at the request of any three or more Members thereof be summoned at any time by such officer as the Council shall appoint for that purpose.

ARTICLE VIII.

(i.) A Governors Meeting shall be held on the Twenty-third of April (or as near thereto as may be) in every year at such time and place as may be determined by the Council. Such Governors Meetings shall be called Annual Governors Meetings and all other Governors Meetings shall be called Extraordinary Governors Meetings.

(ii.) The Council may whenever they think fit, and shall upon the written requisition of at least twelve Governors specifying the object of the proposed meeting, convene an Extraordinary Governors Meeting, and if the Council do not proceed to convene an Extraordinary Governors Meeting within twenty-one days after requisition made the requisitionists may convene such meeting.

(iii.) No business shall be transacted at a Governors Meeting unless a quorum of Governors is present, and such quorum shall be ascertained as follows, that is to say :-If at the time of the meeting the Governors do not exceed ten in number the quorum

shall be three; if they exceed ten there shall be added to the above quorum one for every ten additional Governors.

(iv.) If within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum of Governors is not present, the meeting, if convened upon a requisition, shall be dissolved, and in any other case it shall stand adjourned to the same day in the following week at the same time and place, and if at the adjourned meeting a quorum of Governors is not present it shall be dissolved.

(v.) The President shall preside as Chairman at a Governors Meeting; if there is no President or if at any meeting he is not present at the time of holding the same, the Governors present shall choose some one of their number to be Chairman of such meeting.

(vi.) The Chairman may with the consent of the meeting adjourn any Governors 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.

(vii.) At a Governors Meeting every Governor present shall have one vote and no more.

ARTICLE IX.

(i.) A Register shall be kept at the office of the Corporation of the names and addresses of the Governors.

(ii.) A notice of every Governors Meeting shall be sent to every Governor at least seven days before such meeting, and a notice of every meeting of the Council shall be sent to every Member of the Council at least five days before such meeting at their respective registered addresses by such Officer as the Council shall appoint, and such notice shall in each case specify the time and place of the meeting and the business to be transacted.

ARTICLE X.

The Common Seal of the Corporation shall not be affixed to any instrument except by the authority of a resolution of the Council, and shall be affixed in the presence of two Members of the Council, and those two Members of the Council shall sign every instrument to which the seal of the Corporation is so affixed in their presence.

ARTICLE XI.

Subject to the provisions of this Our Charter, the Council shall, have power to make, rescind and alter such rules for the regulation of the affairs of the Corporation as they shall think fit.

ARTICLE XII.

If at any Governors Meeting, whereof at least fourteen days' notice in writing shall have been given stating the object of the Meeting, a resolution shall be passed by a majority of three

quarters of the Governors present calling upon any Governor to resign, such Governor, unless he has previously resigned, shall at the expiration of ten days from the passing of such resolution cease to be a Governor: Provided that no such resolution shall be valid or effective unless at least fourteen days before the holding of the Meeting at which it is passed the Governor thereby called upon to resign shall have received notice in writing containing a copy of this Article, and specifying the charge in respect of which he is called upon to resign, and shall have been given an opportunity at such meeting of defending himself against such charge.

ARTICLE XIII.

Unless the context otherwise requires, the Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of this Our Charter as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, but so, however, that this Our Charter shall always be construed and adjudged in the most favourable and beneficial sense for the best advantages of the Corporation and the promotion of the objects of this Our Charter as well in all Our Courts as elsewhere, any nonrecital, mis-recital, uncertainty or imperfection herein notwithstanding.

ARTICLE XIV.

The Corporation may by resolution in that behalf passed at any Governors Meeting by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the Governors present, and confirmed at a meeting held not less than one month nor more than four months afterwards by a like majority, alter, amend or add to this Our Charter, and such alteration, amendment or addition shall, when allowed by Us in Council, become effectual, so that this Our Charter shall thenceforward continue and operate as though it had been originally granted and made accordingly. This provision shall apply to this Our Charter as altered, amended or added to in manner aforesaid.

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