C-38 - Companies Act

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81. The directors may provide that the amount of any dividend that they may lawfully declare shall be paid, in whole or in part, in capital stock of the company, and for that purpose they may authorize the issue of shares of the company as fully paid or partly paid, or may credit the amount of such dividend on the shares of the company already issued but not fully paid, and, in the latter case, the liability of the holders of such shares shall be reduced by the amount of such dividend.
R. S. 1964, c. 271, s. 78.