Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-27
INCORPORATION.
Articles Of incorporation.
ARTICLE L.

The name of this corporal on shall be The Lake
Superior and Red River Valley Railroad Company,
and It's object and the general nature Of Its business
Is the surveying, locating building and construction
of Jingle double track railroad, from the State
line between the State Of Minnesota and the Site Of
Wis, onsin, at some feasible point in township No.
148 Of range 49, west of the fourth principal merid
ian, III general northwestwardIy direction, by the
most feasible route By way of the mouth of the
Cloquet river in st. Louis county, Lake Winnie
qoshsh, Cass lake and Leach lake, in Cass and
Itasca counties, and Red Lake Falls and Crookston
In Polk county, to Red River of the Morrill, In
township No IA of range 49, in said county of Folk.
Minnesota; and all such sidetracks, turnouts, depot
grounds, depots, warehouses, elevators, machine
shops and Car manufactures and other appendages,
ss it may deem suitable and convenient for The
and operation of said railroad, and the operation
thereof iu receiving storing and shipping freight,
and in the transportation of passengers and freight
over said abroad. ...~ r.-Lt .; Il
ARTICLE II. .-.rl
The time Of commencement Of said corporation
shall be the hrtleth day Of Dece mber, 1879, and the
period for the continuance of the same shall be fifty
years. sa.rss
The principal place of transactlng the business OF
said corporation shall be the city of Crookston in
tho county OF Polk, in the State Of Minnesota.
The amount Of capital stock Of said corporation
shall be five million dollars, which shall be paid in
such tnsta1Gents the board OF directors shall
from time to tune determine, no insta1nent to ex-
coed ten per centum nor shall assessments therefor
be made oftener than once in thirty days. = i-
ARTICLE v. t,.ss ...s.-,.-
The highest amount Of indebtedness or liability to
which said corporation shall ct any time be subject
Is three million dollars. .---'- -.-.. So s..f.-
IL ARTICLE VI. @a5 ~. -
The names and places of residence of the persons
oiry innn Hon Qrso
Morris r. Brown, Thomas G. .Shapleigb, Frank
Ives, Jehn Frederick, Arthur Yoernault, George
Croker, E. B. Ellsworth and Wiia:: III. Ross, of
w. Gates Of the county of Douglass III the State Of
Wisconsin, and Isaiah Gervais OF Red Lake Falls,
Polk county, Minnesota. ~ .-. <
ARTICLE VII. ES<s
The names Of the first board Of directors Of said
corporation ere Morr R. Brown, Thomas @. Shap-
leigh, Frank Ives, John Frederick, Arthur Yoer-
nault, George Crocker, E. B. Ellsworth William N.
and James Barclew and Irwin W. Gates of the
county of Douglass in the State Of Wisconsin
The eovernment Of this corporation and the man
aRement of its affairs shall be vesed in the board of
than eleven in humble and who shall be elected by
ballot by the stockholders annually, on the first
Tuesday In June Id each year and president, vice
president secretary and treasurer shall be elected
for The purpose Of the hrst organization Of such
board said officers shall be elected by the present
board Of directors on the 9oh day OK December 1879
'..- ARTICLE VIII. r SO.
The number and amount Of the shares In the
capital stock of said corporation shall be ono hum
dred thousand shares of fifty dollars each.
In witness whereof We have hereunto set our
hands and seals this 5th day of December, 1879.
Signed and sealed in presence of 1v-z s>s'-
JOHN MCLEAN, ---s.-------.-