Daily globe., 1881-12-08
ARTICLES
OF
POR A T IN
OF THE
MINNESOTA COFFEE
AND
SPICE COMPANY.

Be it known that we, whose names are here
unto subscribed, have agreed 10 and do hereby
associate ourselves together to become incor-
porated under the laws of the State of Mime
sofa, and to that end have adopted and signed
the following Articles of Incorporation.
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The name of the Corporation shall be the
Minnesota Coffee and Spice Company. The
general nature of it's business shall be to
manufacture. prepare for use, put up into
merchantable form, and deal in, spices. ex-
tracts, roasted and ground cofff es, baking
powders and other merchandise. The principal
place for the transaction of it's business shall
be at the City of st. Paul, in the State of Min
nesota.
Said corporation shall commence on the first
Monday of January, A. D. 1882, and the same
shall continue for the period of five (5) years.
III.
The amount of the capital stock of said cor
poration shall be twenty thousand go 0,000)
dollars; the same shall be divided ito four
hundred (400) shares of fifty (50) dollars each,
and such shares shall be paid for as called for
by resolution of the Board of Directors.
".
The highest amount of Indebtedness or lia-
bility to which said corporation shall at any
time he subject, shall be twenty thousand
(20,000) dollars.
The names of the persons forming said cor
poration are: Patrick 81. Kelly, Warren
Granger, Alfred Dufrepe, Jerome Platt and
Jason W. Cooper, and they all reside at st.
Paul, in the State of Minnesota.
vi.
Said Patrick n. Kelly, Warren Granger and
Jerome Platt, shall constitute the first Board
of Directors of said corporation. The gov
ernment of said corporation and the general
management of its affairs shall be vested In
the following officers, who shall constitute It's
Board of Directors, namely: President, Sec
retary. Treasurer and General Manager. The
action of such officers shall be subject to gen.
eral supervision of the Board of Directors.
The General Manager shall be, ex officio, the
Secretary of said corporation. Each of said
officers shall be stockholder IN said corpora
ton. The President and Treasurer shall serve
gratis. The compensation of the General
Manager shall lie determined by the stockhold-
ers, and shall not be reduced during his term
of Office. Each of said officers shall hold bis
office for the term of five years from the first
Monday of January, A. D. 1882. The Board
of Directors shall have power to fill any va
cancy in such Board, or in any office OF said
corporation for the unexpired term, and to
make all such bylaws as they may regard fit
for the good government of said corporation.
On the first Monday of January, A D. 1882,
and annually thereafter, shall be held meet
ing of the stockholders of said corporation,
and at their first meeting they shall elect the
officers of said corporation and determine the
compensation of its General Manager.
In witness whereof we have hereunto sub
scribed our names.
PATRICK H. KELLY.
WARREN GRANGER.
JEROME PLATT.
JASON W. COOPER,
ALFRED DUFRENE.
In presence Of
W. P. WARNER,
CHAs. 8. BUNKER.
STATE .os.1 OF 1M1rsaNNTEss9oTA.}s raNTs9
Be It known that on this Sd day of Decem-
her, A. d. 1881, came personally before me,
Patrick H. Kelly, Warren Granger, Alfred Du-
irene, Jerome Platt and Jason W. Cooper, to
me well-known to be the same persons who
are described in and who executed the forego-
ing Instrument, and they then and there re-
spectively and duly acknowledged that they
executed the same freely, voluntarily, and for
the uses and purposes therein expressed.
In witness whereof have hereunto set my
hand and affixed nv official seal, the day and
year first above written.
[sEAI. w.P. WARNER,
Notary Public, Ramsey County, Minnesota.