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23. The agreement shall not, save so far as its terms and conditions are authorized by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, ... or by any other general statute or law from time to time in force with respect to the companies parties to the agreement, have any operation unless and until it is sanctioned by such proportion of the votes of the shareholders and stockholders entitled to vote in that behalf at meetings of the several companies parties thereto, present (personally or by proxy) at a general meeting of each company specially convened for the purpose (in manner herein-after mentioned), as is prescribed in the special Act, and, if no proportion is prescribed, then by three-fifths of such votes. Every such meeting shall be convened by circular addressed to each such shareholder and stockholder, and served in the manner prescribed by the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, ... as the case may require, with respect to notices requiring to be served by the company upon the shareholders, and also by advertisement inserted once at least in each of two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published or circulating in the county prescribed in the special Act, and if no county is prescribed, then in the county in which the head office of the company is situate; the last of such advertisements to be published not less than seven days before the meeting.
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