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This proof was presented to the meeting of the Board of Directors of Philip Morris on December 16, 1953 and filed with the SEC on the same day. Proof of December 15, 1953 Preliminary Copy PHILIP MORRIS & CO. LTD., INCORPORATED NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS To Be Held January 26, 1954 New York, N. Y., December 30, 1953 TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF PHILIP MORRIS & Co. LTD., INCORPORATED : A Special IZeeting of Stockholders of this Company, a Virginia corporation, will be held January 26, 1954 at the Jefferson Hotel, Jefferson and Franklin Streets, Richmond, Virginia, at 12 o'clock noon, Eastern Standard Time, for the following purposes : 1. To consider and vote upon a proposal that the Company acquire from holders of Common Stock, $4 par value, of Benson and Hedges, a New York corporation, such number of shares thereof as may be possible (but in no event less than 355,460 shares) in consideration of the issue by the Company of a like number of shares of its authorized Common Stock, $5 par value; 2. The transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. The Board of Directors has no knowledge of any other matters to be proposed at the meeting. Only holders of Common Stock, par value $5 per share, of record at the close of business January 5, 1954, will be entitled to vote at the meeting. If you, as a holder of such Common Stock, do not expect to attend personally, the Board of Directors requests that you sign and date the proxy enclosed herewith and return it promptly. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS l C. H. KIBBEE, Secretary. ... +1 07