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File 4030/1913 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates' [35v] (66/192)
The record is made up of 1 file (95 folios). It was created in 9 Dec 1913-21 Jul 1914. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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38
V. ACCOUNTS AND DIVIDENDS.
1. Accounts.
96. The Board shall cause accounts to be kept of the assets
and liabilities, receipts and expenditure of the Company. The
books of account shall be kept at the Registered Office of the
Company, or at such other place or places as the Board think
fit. Except as provided by statute, or by the authority of the
Board, or of a General Meeting, no Member shall be entitled, as
such, to inspect any books or papers of the Company other than
the Register of Members and of Mortgages.
97. At the Ordinary General Meeting in every year (after the
First Ordinary General Meeting) the Board shall submit to the
Members a balance-sheet and profit and loss account made up to as
recent a date as practicable, and audited as hereinafter provided,
accompanied by a report from the Board on the transactions of
the Company during the period covered by such accounts.
2. Audit.
98. The accounts of the Company shall be audited as pre
scribed by law.
3. Dividends.
99. Subject to the discretion of the Board to set aside any
sum they think proper as a reserve fund and to the rights of
Members (if any) entitled to shares with special rights as to
dividends, the profits of the Company available for distribution
shall be distributable among the Members in accordance with the
amounts paid-up, or credited as paid-up, on the shares of the
Company held by them respectively. No amount paid on a share
in advance of Calls shall, while carrying interest, be treated for
the purposes of this article as paid-up on the share.
100. The Company in General Meeting may declare a dividend
to be paid to the Members according to their rights and interests
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This part contains correspondence that relates to a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for the construction of the Baghdad Railway.
Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between Lord Inchcape and John Finnis Lynch of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company to ensure that their respective interests did not conflict with one another.
On folios 15-38, a copy of the Articles of Association and Certificate of Incorporation of Mackay, Lynch and Company Limited (from 31 March 1914) is enclosed.
The principal correspondents are Lord Inchcape; the Ottoman representative in negotiations regarding the concession, Ibrahim Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. ; the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey and the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet. A limited amount of this correspondence is in French.
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- File 4030/1913 Pt 2 'Baghdad Railway: Negotiations; Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates'
- Pages
- 3r:49v, 52r:67v, 69r:69v, 71r:76v, 78r:79v, 82r:91v, 94r:96v, 98r:98v
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