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D3580 - Longsdon family of Little Longstone - [14th-20th Cent]
C - Correspondence
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D3580/C/661
Title
Committee instructions to WL [Longsdon] received 10 May 1854. [WL's hand).
1. Immediate object to report on E & O purchase so as to enable Committee to advise English shareholders how to use proxies.
2. Wider scope - appointment of Committee contemplates general and continuous supervision of all important matters affecting company's interests with view to guiding English shareholders who hold large majority of stock in exercise of proxies. Mr Longsdon goes out to represent Committee and perform same function as they would do themselves if possible for them to proceed personally on otherside Atlantic.
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Derbyshire Record Office
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