Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
INCORPORATION.
Articles Of incorporation.
ARTICLE I,

ARIlCLE /.
The na,ne OF this corporal on shall be The Lake
Superior and Red River Valley Railroad Company,
aud object and the general nature Of its business
Ia the surveying locating, building and construction
of single double track railroad, from the State
line between the State of Minnesota and the State OF
Wisconsin, at some feasible point in township No.
14S Of range IT, west of the fourth principal merid
ian, III general enthusiastically direction, by the
most feasible route by way Of the mouth OF the
ClOGuet river in st. Louis county, Lake Winnie
goshish, Cass lake and Leach lake, in Cass and
Itascs countless and Red Lake Falls and Crookston
In Polk county, to Red River Of the North in or near
township No. IA Of range 49, in said county Of Polk,
Minnesota; and all such sidetracks turnouts, depot
grounds, depots, warehouses, elevators, machine
shops and car manufactures and other appendages
a. IL may deem suitable and convenient for the use
and operation of said railroad, and the operation
thereof In receiving, storing and shipping freight,
and In the transportation Of passengers and freight
over said railroad.
The time of commencement of said corporation
shall be the thireth day of December, 1879, and the
period for the continuance of the same shall be fifty
years.
The principal place of transacting the business Of
said corporation shall be the city of Crookston, in
the county Of Polk, in the State of Minnesota.
ARTICLE ~.
shall be five million dollars, which shall be paid In
such installments the board Of directors shall
from time to tune determine. no nstallmeht to ex-
coed ten per centum, nor shall assessments therefor
be made oftener than once in thirty days.
ARTICLE v.
The highest amount of Indebtedness or liability to
which said corporation shall at any time be subject
Is three million dollars.
ARTICLE vi.
A.
forming such association for incorporation. are
Morris R. Brown, Thomas c. Shapleigh, Frank
Ives, John Frederick, Arthur Yoernault, George
Croker, E. B. Ellsworth and William M. Ross. Of
Polk county. Minnesota, James Barden and Irwin
W. Gates of the county Of Douglass in the State Of
Wisconsin, and Isaiah Gervais of Red Lake Falls,
Polk county, Minnesota.
ARTICLE VII.
The names of the first board Of directors of said
corporation are Morr 8 r. Brown, Thomas @. Shap-
leigh. Frank Ives, John Frederick, Arthur Yoer-
nault, George Crocker E. B. Ellsworth, William M.
Ross and Isaiah Gervais of Polk county, Minnesota,
and James Barden and Irwin W. Gates of the
county of Douglass, in the State Of Wisconsin.
The government Of this corporation and the man
ageent of its affairs shall be vested in the board of
directors TO consist of not less than nine nor more
than eleven in numbe and who shall be elected by
ballot by the stockholders annually, on the first
Tuesday in June in each year, and PRESIDENT vice
president, secretary and treasurer shall be elected
annually by the board Of directors, provided that
for the purpose of the first organization of such
board said officers shall be elected by the present
board of directors the 3Oh day of December 1879.
ARTICLE VIII.
The number and amount of the shares in the
capital stock of said corporation shall be one hun
bred thousand shares Of fifty dollars each.
In witness whereof we have hereuntO Set our
hands and seals this 9TH day Of December, 1879.
Signed and sealed in presence Of
JOHN MCLEAN,
HENRY ZIMMERMANN.
THOMAS G. sHApLE1aH, Lseal.1
FRANK IVES, [Seal.1
JOHN FREDERICK, lSeal.1
ARTHUR YOERNAULT, rSeal.1
GEORGE CROKER, [Seal1
Z. B. ELLSWORTH, [Seal.1
ISAIAH GERVAIS, [Seal.1
WILLIAM M. ROSE, lSeal.1
JAMES BARDEN, (Sesl.1
IRWIN W. GATES. [Seal.1
In presence Of D. GEORGE MORRISON,
A. G.. BERTRAND.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, -.
COUNTY OF POLK, g.
On this fifth day Of December, 1879, personally
appeared before the undersigned, notary public In
and for said county, Morris R. Brown, Thomas @.
Shapleigh, Frank Ives, John Frederick, Arthur
Yoernault, George Crocker, Z. B. Ellsworth, William
NJ. Ross and Isaiah Gervais, to me well known to be
articles Of incorporation, and each acknowledged
the same to be their free act and deed.
[Seal. JOHN NOLAN,
Notary Public, MINI.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, ~,
COUNTY OF DOUGLASS, 90
On this 18th day Of December, 1879, personally ap-
peared before the undersigned, notary public In
and for said county, James Barden and Irwin w.
Gates, to me well known as the persons who signed
and sealed tho foregoing articles Of incorporation,
and each acknowledged the same to be their free act
and deed. D. GEO. MORRISON,