Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-08
INCORPORATION.
ARTICLES
INCOR PORATION.

Know all men by these presents, that We whose
names are hereunto subscribed have agreed TO asso-
cse and do hereby associate ourselves together Tor
the purpose of incorporation, and to be corpora
tion under the laws Of the State OF Minnesota, and
for that purpose and to that end have adopted signed
and acknowledged the following articles of 1ncor-
poratton, to-wit
The name of said corporation shall be: Van Ho-
ven Live Stock Company.
The oeneraI nature of its business shall be to buy,
fell, aud deal in Hsat-cattle, hogs, sneep, taow,
hides and pelts; Strengthening neatcattle. hogs and
Sheep and buying selling and dealing In peer, porK,
mutton and other fesh-meats, and the rendering OF
tallow and the offal Of animals slaughtered, or In
and such rendering of offs to prepare and dispose
of fertilizer or otherwise az the same can Dc USED
The principal place of transactng the business Of
said corporation shall be at st. Paul, Minnesota
where its principal Office ehaH be Kept
Said corporation shall commence on the thirteenth
nS) day of March, A. D. 1882 and shall continue for
the term of thirty (3O) years thence next ensuing.
The amount of capital stock Of said corporation
shall be Fifty Thousand $3.50, 000 0O Dollars. Five
thousand dollars shall be paid In st the commence
ment of said corporation. and the balance as the
same may be called and ordered by the Directors.
The highest amount of Indebtedness or liability to
which said corporation shall ct any time be subject
shall be the sum of Ten Thousand (Sl0,O0O00)
Dollars.
The names and places of residence of the persons
forming this association Tor incorporation, are as
follows:
John j. Penner, st. Paul, Minnesota.
Rertram scheffer, st. Paul, Minnesota.
Paul Enge g. st. Paul. Minnesota.
Albert Scheffer, st. Paul, Minnesota.
Henry Van Hoven, st. Paul, Minnesota.
The names of the persons who shall constitute the
first Board of Directors Of said corporation are:
John j. Penner, Bertram Scheffer, Paul Epgels, AL
bert Scheffer and Henry Van Heven The officers OF
said corporation shall be and consist OF President
Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and General
Manager The government of said corporation and
the management Of it's AFFAIRS shall be vested in its
officers and its Board of Directors. The Directors
after the first elm named shall be elected annually
by the stockholders on the second Monday in March,
In each year, at the office Of the corporation in St.
Paul. and the first annual meeting for the eecou OF
Directors shall be on the second Monday In March,
A. D. 1885, to ich time and until their successors
are elected and qualified the Directors hereinbefore
named shall hold their offices and constitute the
Board of Directors of said corporation The II st
annual meeting of such Beard OF directors snail pc
their election and at such meeting they shall choose
and ele-t said officers Of the corporation. That I'M
til said first annual ton OF Directors on the sec
ond Monday in March, A. D. 1888, and until their
SUCCESSORS are respectively elected and qualified, the
said John J. Peuner ahall be the President, Bertram
scheffer the Vice President, the said Paul Engels
Secretary the said Albert Scheffer Treasurer, and
the said Henry Van HoveD General Manager of said
corporation. And no person shall be elected d.
recter or Officer of said corporation who is not
stakeholder. Said Officers shall be elected and
chosen by the Directors from their own number
VII.
The capital stock of said corporation shall be div
ded Into One Thousand Shares Of Fifty Dollars
each
In witness Whereof we, the persons hereinbefore
named az incorporators. have hereunto subscribed
our names and affixed our eeals, each for himself,
this second day of March, A D 1882.
JOHN j. PENNER, ISeal ]
BERTRAM sCHEFFER.[ Seal j
PAUL ENGELS. [Seal.
ALBERT SCHEFFER, (Seal.]
HENRY VAN HOVEN, tSeal.
In presence Of
VIM. 8. MOORE,
RICHARD BALL.