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Dividends | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016
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Dividends | Dividends During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, we paid regular quarterly cash dividends of approximately $39,849,000 as follows:
| Quarter Ended
| March 31, 2016 |  | June 30, 2016 |  | September 30, 2016
Cash dividend per common share | $ | 0.18125 |  |  | $ | 0.18250 |  |  | $ | 0.18375 |
Total cash dividends paid | $ | 13,158,000 |  |  | $ | 13,293,000 |  |  | $ | 13,398,000 |
Record date | February 19, 2016 |  |  | May 20, 2016 |  |  | August 19, 2016 |
Payment date | March 25, 2016 |  |  | June 24, 2016 |  |  | September 23, 2016 |
Additionally, on October 11, 2016, our Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.1850 per common share, which will be paid on December 23, 2016, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 18, 2016. Cash dividends declared on our outstanding weighted average number of basic common shares for the periods presented were approximately as follows:
| Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30,
| 2016 |  | 2015 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Cash dividends per common share | $ | 0.19 |  |  | $ | 0.18 |  |  | $ | 0.55 |  |  | $ | 0.53 |

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