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 vote in case of gn election." The language of the court in re Steamboat Co., 44 N. J. Law, 529, is equally emphatic on the proposition that the record determines the question who are stockholders in their dealings with the corporation, which embrace the payment and receipt of dividends, and the voting at stockholders' meeting for directors and for other purposes; although on application to a court of equity the stockholder might be compelled no give a proxy to another or to vote as such other should direct. Said the court: “The general rule is that the books of the corporation are the evidence of the persons who are entitled to the rights and privileges of stockholders in the management of the affairs of the corporation. With the single exception that stock really belonging to the corporation cannot, at any election for its directors, be voted upon, directly or indirectly (citing cases), the books of the corporation are the only evidence of who are the stockholders, and, as such are entitled to vote at elections. Downing v. Potts, 23 N. J. Law, 66. Neither the inspectors nor stockholders can dispute the right to vote of any one who appears by the company’s books to be the holder of stock legally issued.

In Pender v. Lushington, 6 Ch. Div. 70, the articles of association provided that every member should be entitled to one vote for every ten shares, but should not be entitled to more than one hundred votes in all, and that no member should vote at any general meeting unless he had been possessed of his shares for three months previously thereto. It was held that the register of stockholders was the only evidence by which the right to vote could be ascertained, and that no vote of shareholders appearing on the register, and properly qualified, should be rejected on the ground that their shares had been transferred to them by other shareholders, for the purpose of increasing their own voting power, or with an object alleged to be adverse to the interests of the company, or on the ground that the holders were not beneficial owners of the stock. So, also, it is held that a person has a right to vote on stock standing in his own name as trustee for another, or on stock which he has pledged or hypothecated, if it be in his own name on the company’s books; and that inspectors of the election, in determining the