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Act No. 1459 Section 17

Section 17

SEC 17. No corporation shall increase or diminish its capital stock, or incur, create, or increase any bonded indebtedness unless, at a stockholders meeting regularly called for the purpose, two-thirds of the entire corporate capital stock subscribed shall favor the increase or diminution of the capital stock, or majority of the subscribed capital stock shall favor the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness. Written or printed notice of the proposed increase or diminution of the capital stock or of the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness and of the time and place of the stockholders' meeting at which the proposed increase or diminution of the capital stock or the incurring, creating, or Increasing of any bonded indebtedness is to he considered must be addressed to each stockholder at his place of residence as shown by the books of the corporation and registered and deposited so addressed in the post-office with postage prepaid. A certificate in duplicate must be signed by a majority of the directors of the corporation and counter signed by the chairman and secretary of the stockholders' meeting, shoving compliance with the requirements of this section, the amount of the increase or diminution of the capital stock, or the bonded indebtedness to be incurred, created, or increased, the actual indebtedness to be incurred, created, or increased, the actual indebtedness of the corporation on the day of the meeting, the amount of stock represented at the meeting, and the vote authorizing the increase or diminution of the capital stock or the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness. One of the duplicate certificates shall be kept on file in the office of the corporation and the other shall be filed in the office of the Chief of the Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks of the Executive Bureau and-attached by him to the original articles of incorporation. From and after the filing of the duplicate certificate with the chief of the said division the capital stock shall stand increased or diminished and the incurring, creating, or increasing of any bonded indebtedness authorized as the certificate may declare. The Chief of the said Division of Archives. Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks shall be entitled to collect the sum of twenty pesos for filing said duplicate certificate.

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CitationAct No. 1459 Section 17 (LawPlayer, data as of July 4, 2026)

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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