The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-06-28
CHARTER
OF Incorporation Of the Dixie
Matrimonial Aid Association.

SECTION l. This Association shall be known
as "The Dixie Matrimonial Aid Association,
and shall be located at jackson, Mississippi.
SIC 2. The objects Of this Association shall
be to unite in marriage all suitable unmarried
white persons, male and female and 10 estab-
lish a 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 mem
Der, or to any one that he or she may desig-
nate, a 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 eKecu-
tiDn or attachment, or other seizure under le-
gal process, for any debt or debts of the GER
tihcate 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 theeincorporators, their sue
cessors or assigns, and be Invested or divided
at such times and in such manner ms the
Board of Directors may order. And the GER
tifcate holders or members of this Associa-
tion shall have no interest whatever in said
expense and profit fund.
SEC. 3. John McGill, W. Y. LoWd, Emmett
L. Ross, W. W. Hoskins and Isydore Strauss,
their associates, successors and assigns, be
and they are hereby created body polite and
corporate, under the name and style of THE
Dixie Matrimonial Aid Association
CT Jackson, Miss. and by that name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any
court of law or equity in this State. And
said Association may have a 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.
SEC 4. The private property, real, personal
or mixed, of the said incorporators their asso-
ciaies, successors and assigns, shall rot be
liable for any debt liability or obligation Of
this Association.
SEC ). The said benefit fund, and said expense
and profit fund, shall be created with moneys
collected from the holders of certificates Of
membership in the Association, ~ from the
benefciarics in said certificates Shtsaid col
lectons shall be denominated Membership
fees annual dues and assessments. The bene-
fiji 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 and annual dues
shall constitute the expense and proht iund,
and shall be used as far al necessary, for the
payment of the current expenses OF the Asso-
citation, and the residue thereof shall be invest
ed or divided as the Board Of Directors may
order.
Sic g. Said Association may, al their dis
creton, 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.
Sic 7. Said Association shall have power
10 elect aid select such officers AMI agents "a
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 li62-3W.