188 THE ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION 
least twenty-one days, and not more than thirty days, 
before the time of holding such general meeting, and 
in each advertisement the object of such meeting and 
the time of holding the same shall be stated ; and at 
such meeting twenty-four members of the said body 
politic and corporate shall be elected members of the 
council, and such first general meeting may adjourn 
from time to time, and for such time as such first 
general meeting or any adjournment thereof shall think 
proper ; and every such adjourned meeting shall be 
considered a continuance of such first general meeting : 
AND WE DO FURTHER DIRECT, That on the 
first Monday in the month of May, one thousand eight 
hundred and forty-five, and on the first Monday in the 
month of May in every subsequent year, an annual 
general meeting of the members of the said body politic 
and corporate shall be held at some place within the 
city of London or Westminster, or the suburbs thereof; 
and every annual or other general meeting of the 
members of the body politic and corporate shall be 
convened by the council by advertisements published 
in the London Gazette, and in such two or more 
London and Dublin daily newspapers, and in two or 
more Edinburgh papers, as the council shall think fit, 
at least twenty-one days, and not more than thirty 
days, before the time of holding the same; and in 
each advertisement the object of such general meeting, 
and the day, hour, and place of meeting, shall be speci- 
fied; and the annual general meetings, and the ad- 
journments thereof, shall be held and the business to 
be done thereat shall be transacted whatever may be 
the number of members present thereat, but no business 
