The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-11-16
AFTERNOON SESSION.

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AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention was called to order at
tho appointed time; when Judge Stacey,
from the Committee on Articles of Ineor-
poration, submitted the following report:
We, the undersigned, hereby organize
ourselves into body corporate and adopt
the following Articles''of Incorporation:
Art. l. The name Of this corporation
shall be the "Muscatine, Upton and An
mosa Railroad Company"
Art. 2. The general business to be
transacted by this company shall be the
construction, maintaining and operating
of a railroad from Muscatipe, Muscatine
county, Iowa, via Upton, Cedar county,
to Anamosa, in Jones county, Iowa, with
such extensions from the termini a. may
be hereafter agreed upon.
Art g. The principal place Of trans
acting business shall be at Upton, in
Cedar county, Iowa.
Art f. The amount Of capital stock Of
this corporation shall DO sl,5O0,O0O,
which shall be divided into shares of one
hundred dollars each, to be paid in in
such instalments and at such times as
the Board of Directors may determine.
AIRS. 5. This corporation shall com.
mencc on the s,h day Of November, 1865,
and shall continue fifty years.
Art. 6. The officers Of this corporation
shall be a President, Vice President,
Secretary and Treasurer, and Board Of
nine Directors-thc Directors to be cho-
sen at the annual meeting on the second
Wednesday of November. The Board Of
Directors shall elect from their own mum.
Der the President and Vice President,
and shall appoint Secretary and Treas
urer.
Art 7. The greatest amount of indebs-
edness of this incorporation shall not at
any time exceed $1,000, 900.
Art. s. The private property Of stock.
holders shall be exempt from liability for
corporate debts.
Art. 8. Tho Board Of Directors Of this
corporation shall have power to make
such bylaws, rules and regulations IS
may be necessary to transact the business
of the company.
Art. 10. These articles may be amend.
ed at any regular meeting of the stock
holders representing = majority Of the
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entitled to one vote.
Art. H. Stockholders representing one
fourth of the capital stock Of this corpo-
ration shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of business, at any regular
meeting of the stockholders.
Art. II. Meetings Of the stockholders
may be called at any time by the Board
Of Directors upon giving thirty days
notice, to be published in at least one
newspaper 10 each county through which
the road passes.
On motion, the report was adopted by
articles.
| 1t was then resolved to open sub
scription book, and after a number had
signed, tho following Board Of Directors
was elected:
Col VIM. T. Shaw, Of Jones county.
H. ~ ~ IaISo,
H. c. Piast, Esq, of Cedar county.
John Culbertsou, Esq, 4"
Judge w. H. Tuthill,
J. b Dougherty, Esq, of Museatine &C
S. g. Stein, Esq, +"
r. NJ. Burnett, Esq,
On motion, adjourned sine die
VIM. II. TUTHILL, Chm.
| JonN MAHIS, Sees
S. S. DANIELS, secs
The Board of Directors subsequently
met and elected Col. Shaw President Of
the Company, Judge Tuthill Vice Presi.
dent, and Joseph W. Bull, Esq, Of Tip
ton, Secretary.
plymouth county gave all its votes
to Stone. Benton didn't get smell.
The Davenport Democrat says tina
nineteen-twentieths of all the fuel use.
in Davenport, Rock Island, Moline ant
Iowa City is coal. The demand is great
ly larger than the SUPPLY.
The Davenport Gazette says ther
is no doubt of the sale Of tho NJ & NJ
Railroad to the Chicago & Rock Islam
: company; the sale was concluded to b
+ made several weeks ago. The details {
the transfer have not yet been agree
upon.
The Decatur Patriot says Miss e.
ton, Of New Buda tp., Decatur count,
was bitten by rattlesnske one day la'
week. and died from the effects of it
it twenty four hours.
~ Ba-Gen. S. r. Curtis has sent infol
d nation to Washington, that be has CO.
y cluded treaty of peace with an India
!. organization, which represents elev'
tribes, including tho Arrapahoes ar
Cheyennes, and that the treaty MAJ
{ may DO considered as a pacification
= the Northern country. Gen. Curtis =
commends, however, that the garrison
. that region should not be diminished
> present, and adds, that although pea
" sentiments predominant among the |