A general meeting shall be held once in every year at such time (not being more than fifteen months after the holding of the last preceding-general meeting) and place as may be prescribed by the company in general meeting, or, in default, at such time in the month following that in which the anniversary of the company's incorporation occurs, and at such place, as the directors shall appoint. In default of a general meeting being so held, a general meeting shall beheld in the month next following, and may be convened by any two members in the same manner as nearly as possible as that in which meetings are to be convened by the directors.