The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1852-09-10
CHI T FIR.
OF THE
Baton Rouge & Clinton Plank Road Co.

We the undersigned agree to form our
selves into corporation, under the laws Of
the State of Louisiana, as particularly set
forth in an act entitled an Act for the organ
i1ation Of corporations for scorks Of public
improvement and utility"-a copy Of which
is hereinto annexed, for the purpose Of con-
structing Plank Road from the city of
Baton Rouge, in the Parish of East Baton
Rouge, to the town of Clinton. in the Parish
of East Feliciana, and from thence along
the most eligable rout to a point that will
connect the town OF Liberty in Amite Co.,
State of Mississippi, and for that purpose
we have formed the annexed charter, and
have signed the same, and have added to
our signature statement of the number of
shares and the amount of our subscriptions
to said Company
CHARTER OF THE COMPANY.
1st The said corporation shall be called
the ':Baton Rouge and Clinton Plank Road
Company" and its domicile is fixed in the
the city Of Baton Rouge.
End. The said corporation is established
for the purpose of constructing, working,
and MAINTAINING plank road from Baton
Rouge to Clinton Louisiana. and from thence
hereafter to be continued to Liberty in
Amite County, State of Mississippi, should
company be formed in Amite County to
connect at the State line.
3rd The capital stock of the Company
is fixed at One Hundred Thousand Dollars,
divided into four thousand shares at twenty
five dollars each. A payment of five per
cent on the amount of each share shall be
made, within thirty days after the election
of the first Board Of Directors. The subse-
quent payment shall be made in such sums
and at such periods as shall be fixed by the
Board Of Directors Provided THAT no
call shall be made, for a greater amount than
ten per cent, at one time, and that sixty
days notice of each call shall be given, by
publication in one newspaper published. in
Baton Rouge which shall be known to the
stockholders as the official paper of the
Company, and in one newspaper published
at Clinton.
4th. The said corporation, shall 60 into
operation and be organized, SO soon as
shares of stock to the amount Of Thirty
thousand Dollars shall have been sub
scrbed.
9Th. The business Of the corporation shall
be conducted at its domicil, in the city of
Baton Rouge by Board composed of seven
Directors, who shall be stockholders. The
Directors shall elect one of their body as
President of the Company, at their first
meeting after their election. A quroum to
transact business shall consist of at least
three members and the President, or any
four members Of the Board. At all elections
by the stockholders, and at all their meet
ings each share shall be entitled to one vote.
Votes may be given in person or by proxy.
The President of the Company is the officer
designated as the one on whom lega! service
OF all process or citation against the Com
pany may be made, and the company agree
to be bound, by service of process or cita-
ton, whether made on the President in
person, or to his address, at the Office Of the
company in the hands of any Of its officers.
9th. The first Board Of Directors 81 all
be chosen as soon as the list Of subscription
shall be closed. This election shall be held