The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-21
CHARTER
OF Incorporation Of the Dixie
Matrimonial Aid Association.

| SECTION /. This Association shall be known
as 'srhe Dixie Matrimonial Aid Association"
and shall be located at Jackson, Mississippi
SEC. 2 The objects Of this Association shall
be TO unite in marriage all suitable unmarrie led
white persons, male and female and to estab-
lish benefit and an expense and profit fund
| from the former Of which, on the satisfactory
proof of the marriage, death, or expiration of
the endowment period Of any member of this
Association who shall have complied with all
of the bylaws, rules and regulations Of the
Association, there shall be paid to such menu
Der, or to any one that he or she may desig-
nate, certain sum of money, not to exceed
the limit of the certificate of membership;
and said sum so to be paid, so far as this char
ter can make it, shall be exempt from execu-
ton or attachment, or other seizure under le-
gal process for any debt or debts Of the GER
tifcate holder or his or her beneficiary. The
expense and profit fund shall be used TO de-
fray the expenses of the Association, and as
compensation to the incorporators, their sue
cessOrs or assigns, and be invested or divided
at such times and in such manner as the
Board of Directors may order. And the GER
tifcate holders or members of this Assooia-
ton shall have no interest whatever in said
expense and profit fund.
SEC. 3. John McGill, W. O. Lowd, Emmett
l.. Ross, W. W. Hoskins and lsydOre Strauss,
their associates, successors and assigns, be
and they are hereby created a body polite and
corporate, under the name and style Of "The
CT Jackson, Miss. and by that name may sue
and be sued, plead aud be implicated, in any
court OF law or equity in this State And
said Association may have corporate sea
and alter and change the same at pleasure,
and may make all necessary bylaws, rules
and regulations for the government Of said
Association, and may alter or amend the same
at pleasure provided that the same be not in
consistent with the Constitution and laws of
this State or of the United States.
SEf, The Driyalp DrODprtV real pnrgnnal
or mixed, of the said incorporators, their asso-
GATES successors and assigns, shall not be
liable for any debt, liability or obligation Of
this Association.
SEC 5. The said benefit fund, and said expense
and profit fund, shall be created with moneys
membership in the Association or from the
benefcaries in said certificates, and paid col
lections shall be denominated membership
fees, annual dues and assessments. The bene-
fit fund shall be created with moneys arising
from assessments, and shall be used for the
payment or security Of benefits which may
accrue on certificates of membership;
the membership fees aud annual dues
shall constitute the expense and profit fund,
and shall be used, as far as necessary, for the
payment of the current expenses of the Assoc
citation. and the residue thereof shall be invest
ed or divided as the Board Of Directors may
order.
SEC. 6. Said Association may, at their dis
erection, purchase or buy and hold real and
personal property, not TO exceed five thousand
dollars in value, and shall have power to sell
or convey, or otherwise dispose Of the same at
pleasure.
SEC. Z. Said Association shall have power
to elect and select such officers and agents as
may be necessary for carrying out the pur-
poses and accomplishing the objects of this
Association, whose terms Of office and COM
pensation may be fixed by the Association.
June l4S2-3w.