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Dividends | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2016
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Dividends | Dividends During the six months ended June 30, 2016, we paid regular quarterly cash dividends of approximately $26,451,000 as follows:
| Quarter Ended
| March 31, 2016 |  | June 30, 2016
Cash dividend per common share | $ | 0.18125 |  |  | $ | 0.18250 |
Total cash dividends paid | $ | 13,158,000 |  |  | $ | 13,293,000 |
Record date | February 19, 2016 |  |  | May 20, 2016 |
Payment date | March 25, 2016 |  |  | June 24, 2016 |
Additionally, on July 12, 2016, our Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.18375 per common share, which will be paid on September 23, 2016, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on August 19, 2016. Cash dividends on our outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares for the six months ended June 30, 2016 and 2015 were approximately as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended June 30, |  | For the Six Months Ended June 30,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Cash dividends per common share | $ | 0.18 |  |  | $ | 0.18 |  |  | $ | 0.36 |  |  | $ | 0.36 |

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