The Greenville times., 1885-05-30
CHARTER OF
flG GTaGlTilI8 Compress
Warehouse Company

Section J.. This company shall BE-
known a. tire "Greenyille Compress
and Warehouse Company, and By that
name may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded. in all the courts Of Law
and Equity In this state. and may have
common seal which it may alter al
pleasure.
See. .. The said company shall have
the right 20 transact the business of
COMPRISING cotton fug toll. and also Of
storing cotton. produce and merehan-
disc in the town Of Oreeryille, county
of Washington. state ~ Mississippi. or
elsewhere in said county; ard 10 that
end may acquire by purchase, lease, or
gilt. real and personal property ofevery
Kind and character necessary or desiTa-
BILE TO carry on said business essOfcOmpress-
ing and storing cotton etc for hire.
The said company may also own any
number Of draws, carts, wagons, teams,
&C.. and may do drayage business m
connection with its general business OF
storing and COMPRISING cotton. And
the said company shall have the right to
fix its rate of charges for c0mpressing
and storing and draying and otherwise
handling cotton, produce and merchan-
disc. and may collect the same under
such rules and regulations as the said
company may prescribe. Said company
shall have the right 10 make all rules,
regulations and bylaws necessary or de-
sirable to the successful management of
its business, and not Inconsistent with
the Constitution and Laws Of the State
of Mississippi. and Of the United States.
See. 3. The ineorporators of.said COM
pany are W. A. Pollock, VIM. G. lerger.
VIM. Blake, j. A. Deaton, Leroy Percy,
Nathan Goldstein. III. Wilezinskt, and
| their associates and successors, who are
authorized upon the approval of this
charter by the Governor of the State, to
organize said company by electing five
OF their number to he Board of Direc-
/ tors, which said Board of Directors shall
IN turn elect one of their number To be
| President. one to be Vice President aud
one to be Secretary and Treasurer, and
| the Board SO organised shall continue In
/ office one year. and until their successors
are qualified. They shall open books of
subscription to the capital stock Of sail
| company. which is horebr fixed at one
| Hundred Thousand Dollars, divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each, said
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shares of said stock 10 be sold, and the
terms Of payment therefor, they shall al
1 so enact such bylaws as they may deem
necessary under Section Two, of tins
charter, and shall prescribe therein for nm
annual election of directors by the stock
holders and also for the appointment OF
all agents and employees necessary fol
carrying ON the business Of said com.
pany. The directors of said company
shall have the right to appoint weigh
er, who shall be sworn, aud who shal
have the right TO weigh all cotton ol
merchandise when requested so to do
and who may charge for such seryic,
such amount only as said Board of Di
rectors may prescribe.
Sec. 1. The said company shall neyel
contract or create total Indebtedness
greater than the amount Of stock (pal
value) issued, and the stock holders 0
said company shall be individually liable
to the creditors thereof to the amount o
the stock seyerally subscribed by them
for all debts and contracts made by sale
company, until the whole amount .
their several subscriptions has been pait
in.
See. :. This charter shall take eilec
and be In force from and after its ap
proval by the Governor.
May 9-3w