Word: assented
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...powers and duties of the stockholders to be subject to change by the mutual consent of the stockholders and the participating members of the Society. The assent of the members to be manifested by a majority vote in favor of any proposed change, provided that the votes cast represent twenty-five per cent of the members of the Society, the vote to be by Australian ballot after at least two weeks' notice of the day and subject of the balloting, such notice, however, to be given only at the joint request of the stockholders and fifty members of the Society...
...rules that in a matter of such great concern to the future of the Society, any alternative plan is "out of order." Hence the members of the Society have not the opportunity of knowing officially the reasons which actuated one member of the Board of Directors in withholding his assent from the plan. There is really no difference of interest between the directors and the members: we all wish the same thing, the perpetuation and success of the Harvard Co-operative Society, and we all respect and confide in the five gentlemen who are willing to accept so laborious...
...days must have elapsed after the Governor had signed the bill before it could become a law. Before this act shall be in force, however, it is provided that the Board of Overseers and the Corporation of the University, at separate meetings held for that purpose, shall by vote assent to the same. The governing boards will probably vote their acceptance of this act at meetings to be held in the near future. It must be understood, however, that the amendment included by the Senate provides that if accepted, the bill shall not become operative for three years; so that...
...thus ceased to be a member for non-payment of his bill may be reinstated by the House Committee with the assent of the Treasurer...