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UNITED STATES RADIUM CORPORATION Notice of Special Meeting of Board Of Directors May 3,1929. Dear Sir: A special meeting of the Board of Directors of UNITED STATES RADIUM CORPORATION will be held at the offices of the Corporation No. 535 Pearl Street, New York City, N.Y. on Tuesday the 7th day of May, 1929, at twelve felock noon, for appropriate action on the following: (1) Considering and voting upon a proposition to increase the authorized number of shares of the capital stock of the Corporation by authorizing the issue of 4,000 additional shares of a new class of stock to be known as $7 Cumulative First Preferred Stock, having a par value of $50 a share, redecnable at the option of the Corporation at $100 a share, and entitled upon dissolution or liquidation to $100 a share and accrued unpaid dividends, and ranking prior to the present outstanding $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock; and to establish the terms and provisions of such $7 Cumul- ative First Preferred Stock; (2) Considering and voting upon a proposition to authorize the issuance of said $7 Cumulative First Preferred Stock, share for share in exchange for shares of the present outstanding $7 Cumulative Prior Proference Stock which may be voluntarily surrendered at any time and from time to time by the holders thereof for such prupose, accompanied by a release and surrend- er of all rights to unpaid accumulated dividends accrued on said stock surrend- ered, or accrued on the convertible seven per cent. cumulative preferred stock which was reclassified into said $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock by amendment filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on March 5, 1929; all shares of such $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock so surrendered to be cancelled and not reissued; (3) Subject to authorization by the stockholders of the Corporation of the above action, considering and voting upon a proposition to authorize and approve the declaration to the holders of all such shares of $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock as may be exchanged for shares of $7 Cumulative First Preferred Stock as aforesaid, of a dividend consisting of one share of Class A stock of the Corporation for each share of $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock 80 exchanged; and to authorize an amount of $1 to be transferred from surplus to capital account of the Corporation for every share of the Class A stock so issued; (4) Considering and voting upon a proposition to change the title of the present outstanding $7 Cumulative Prior Preference Stock to $7 Cumula- tive Preference Stock; (5) Considering and voting upon a proposition to amend the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation in such manner as may be necessary or appropriate to carry into effedt the changes set out above;