The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-05-19
CHI A R T E r
OF THE
Baton Rouge & Clinton Plank Road Co.


Baton Rouge & Clinton Plank Road Co.
We the undersigned agree to form our
selves into corporation, under the laws m
the State of Louisiana, as particularly set
forth in an act entitled an 9. .Act for The organ
izafiom of corporations for scorks Of public
improvement and n,ilay''-a copy of which
is hereunto annexed, for the purpose of con-
structing Plank Road from the >city of
Baton Rouge, in the parish Of Fast Baton
Rouge. to the town Of Clinton, in the PATSY
of East Feliciana, and from thence al0s9
the most eligible Iout to 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 t.
our signature statement of the number Of
shares and the amount of our subscriptions
to said Company.
CHARTER OF THE COMPANY.
lst. The said corporation shall be called
the Baton Roug, and Clinton Plank Road
Company" and its domicile is fixed in the
city of Baton Rouge.
2nd. The said corporation is established
for the purpose of constructing, working,
and mantainicg a plank road from Baton
Rouge to Clinton Louisiana and from thence
hereafter to be continued to Liberty in
Amite County, State of Mississippi, should
a 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 in 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-
ouent 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 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 go into
operation and be organized, SO soon as
shares of stock to the amount of Thirty
Thousand Dollars shall have been SUBJ
scrihed
5th. The business of the corporation shall
be conducted at its domicil. in the city Of
Baton Rouge by Board composed ofseven
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 O, the Board. Atall 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 legal service
of all process or citation against the Com
panv may be made, and the company agree
to lie 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 shall
be chosen as soon as the list Of subscriptio, =,
shall he closed. This election shall be held
at Baton Rouge under the superintendence
of the commissioners hereafter designated
and appointed to receive subscriptions
All subsequent elections shall be held at
Baton Rouge under the superintendance of
three commissioners appointed from am
ongst the stockholders by the Board of Di-
rectors for the time being. Notice Of the
first election of Directors, shall be given
fifteen days in advance, in at least enc news
pape, published in Baton Rouge, and one
published at Clinton. The first Board of
Directors shall hold office until the third
Monday of January, 1854. The election
shall be annual, and each subsequent Board
shall be elected on the third Monday of Dec
ember. A failure to elect Directors, shall
not dissolve the corporation, but the Board
in Office shall continue the exercise of its
functions until a new board can be elected
All notices of elections and of meetings of
stockholders after the first election above
provided for. shall be given by publication
thirty days in advance, in the official paper
of the company. and in one paper published
at Clinton.
7th. Tne following persons are hereby
appointed commissioners for the purpose OK
receiving subscriptions to the stock of said
corporation. Vis: Commissioners at Baton
Rouge, T. G. Morgan, s. NJ. Hart, H. T.
Waddill, A. S. Heron, Eugene Lanoue and
w. s. Pike. At Clinton, J. H. Muse, H.
H. HAYNES, Henry Marston, G. W. Munday,
J. B. Smith, Wm. Patterson and NJ. 6.
Mills. The said commissioners shall have
power TO appoint deputies or agents in
other places to receive Subscriptions.
Three thall form quorum to do business
The subscriptions shall be closed as soon Is
the saruount Of Thirty Thousand Dollars