Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-02-13
CHARTER
Of the Brooksville Creamery
Company of B~rooksville, Miss.

WHEREAS, n. Scales, of Brooksyille,
Miss, j.. +. Bancroft of Meridian, Miss, l..
McMorries, r. X. WoOtten, ST., +. &. Nor
gan, W. p. Gaines, Emma May, W. d. Hen.
bricks and J. l.. Feathers on, alt Of Brooks
vile, Mississippi, and their associates, have
formed 4 joint stock company for the pur-
pose Of manufacturing cream. butter, cheese
and other dairy products, AT the town of
Brooksville, in the county OF NOXubec, state
of Mississippi
:. The aboyc-named persons, with such
Others as may become associated with them,
thelr successors or assigns, are hereby IN
c0rp0ratcd and created a body polite and
corporate, under the name Of the Brooks
VILE Creamery Company, and As such shall
nave perpetual succession, and may have
aud hold real and personal property to the
amount Of ten thousand dollars can sue
and be sued plead and be implicated, in all
the courts of law and equity to make rules
regulations and bylaws Tor the manage
ment of said corporation, and to have and
ENJOY all the rights. powers and privileges
of corporate bodies.
3. The capital stock of said corporation
shall not be less than two thousand and five
hundred dollars, and may be increased to
auy sum not exceeding ten thousand dol
lars, at the discretion of Il majority of tho
corporation, and the stock Of said company
shall be divided into shares of one hundred
dollars each, ana no certificate OF shares
shall ever be issued except upon the pay
mCnt in cash. or its equivalent, of the "
mount into the treasury of said company
provided, that certificates may be istled to
the coTpOratOrs, or either Of them, for all
money by them. or either Of them, hereto
fore expended in the undertaking..
4. That the said capital stock Of said com
pany shall be deemed personal property,
and may he transferred as such by endorse
mcut. and delivery Of the certificates. and
an entry of such transfer on the books of
the company and the company may pro-
vide, by its Board Of Directors, for the is
suance Of duplicate certificates. when the
originals are lost or DESTROYED.
8. At all meetings of the stockholders,
each stakeholder shah be entitled to one
vote for each share OF stock owned by him,
and standing in his name on the books OF
the corporation, and may east the same ell
ther in person, or by proxy appointed in
writing. on all questions submitted to them
for their decision, anu a majority of votes
east as aforesaid shall control.
6. No stakeholder of said company shall
be, in any way, Individually liable for the
debts of said company.
I. The affairs OF said company shall be
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