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Minutes of Regular Monthly Meeting of the BOARD OF DIRECTORS of NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY held at No. Ill Broadway, New York City, Tuesday, October 26, 1943, at 11:15 o'clock A. M. PRESENT: L. T. Beale W. V. Burley W. P. Carroll C. F. Garesche C. A. Geatty H. T. Warshow J. J. Morsman F. W. Rockwell Harold Rowe Charles Simon J. A. Taylor PRESENT BY INVITATION: M. Douglas Cole ABSENT: E. F. Beale W. H. Croft Kendall Marsh The President, Fletcher W. Rockwell, acted as Chairman of the meeting and H. 0. Bates acted as Secretary. A summary of the minutes of the last preceding meeting, held September 28, 1943, was presented and upon motion the read ing of the minutes of the previous meeting was waived and the minutes were unanimously approved. Upon separate motions duly made and seconded, the following resolutions were each unanimously adopted: RESOLVED, that the actions of the Executive Committee as set forth in the minutes of its meet ings held September JO, October 14 and 21, 19^3, submitted at this meeting and involving expenditures, appropriations and loans to the amount of $801,979.21, be and they hereby are approved, ratified and con firmed. EESOLVED, that Dividend No. 208 of $1.75 a share on the Class A Preferred Stock of the Com pany and/or the Preferred Stock authorized prior to April 21, 1927 and still outstanding, be and it hereby is declared, payable from Surplus Fund and Profits on December 15, 1943 to stockholders of record at close of business December 3> 1943. RESOLVED, that this Board notes with deep sorrow the passing of its fellow-member, William Farragut Meredith, whose death occurred on Septem ber 28, 1943 at Princeton, New Jersey. It was 0000-NU-000021997