(805 ILCS 30/5) (from Ch. 32, par. 403)
Sec. 5.
Before taking effect, the agreement or agreements for sale and
purchase or lease, or for such consolidation and merger, authorized by this
act, shall be submitted to any annual meeting or to a special meeting of
the stockholders of each of the companies. Such special meeting shall be
called by delivering personally, or depositing in the postoffice, at least
thirty days before the time fixed for such meetings, a notice addressed to
each stockholder of the company whose address is known to the secretary of
the company, signed by a majority of the directors or trustees of the
company, stating the time, place and object of such meeting. Such
stockholders, whose addresses shall be to the secretary unknown, shall be
notified by a general notice of the time, place and object of such meeting
by publication once a week, for three successive weeks, in some newspaper
printed in the county in which the principal business office of such
company is located.
(Source: Laws 1897, p. 177.)
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