Meeting shall be valid provided not less than one-half of the whole numa ber of the voters registered at the Jast Annual General Meeting and present in Tankow, are represented at the Meeting. "If the general or extraordinary meeting cannot be held owing to an insufficl= ent number of voters being prosenty the Director shall call ina week's time a second meeting which shall be. considered valid whatever be the number of voters present.
Article 30—The annual general meeting is competent to transact the following business:—Consider and pass the accounts for the preceding year, l.vy'and alter rates, dues and taxes, authorize the pledging of the credit of the municipality, consider and decide matters concerning the public works and sanitation of the District and such other matters: affect the proper and efficient ad~ ministration of the area, conal and adopt the budget for the current wear, and elect six members of the Article 81.—All resolutions of the annual general or extraordinary meeting, except resolutions named hereunder (Article 82) shall pass by: simple majority of votes, me of equality, of votes the Chai shall have a easting vote, Article 32.—Resolutions ce ing acquisition or expropriation immovables, budget, loans, mort=. cages, securities oF guarantees to be given by the Municipality, shall require a majority of two-thirds of the voters present at the meeting, Article 39.—Resolutiovs passed by the annual General or Ixtraordinary Meeting shall be carried out by the Bureau. Any resolution that shal involve Treaty Rights shall be com. municated to the Commissioner: of Poroign Affairs for Hupeh, If such resolution is found to be repugnant to the letter or spirit of the Treaties China has made with Foreign Pow-4 ers or the Jaws and customs of China, or derogatory to China's sovereignty or dignity as a sovereign, state, the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs may request the Director the Bureau to suspend the execution of the same and immediately report, to the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government for final decision,
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