St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-13
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
The American Live Stock Insurance
Company.

The undersigned do hereby associate them
selves together for the purpose of incorporation
under and pursuant to Title of Chapter "a of the
General Statutes of the State of Minnesota, anC
| the several acts amendatory thereof, and hereby
form body polite and corporate, and adopt the
| following articles of incorporation;
The name of this corporation shall be and il
"The American Live Stock Insurance Company
The general nature of its business shall be the
nsuring of live stock against death by acciden
or disease and against theft. The issuing of poll
cies for such insurance The collecting of pre-
miums for such insurance and receipting there
for. The investing of the money and funds
of the corporation mortgage other Sc
curity, and the receiving, collecting, receipting
for, demanding and enforcing payment of such
loans and interest thereon. The purchasing
owning, controlling, selling, mortgaging, convey
ing, improving managing, assigning, pledgng OF
otherwise dispOsing of so much real and personal
property as may be required or is deemed advis
able for the and best interests OF said corpora
ton and its business.
The principal place of business of this CORPORA.
tlon shall be at the City of ST Paul, County of
Ramsey, Minnesota, at which place shall be located
the general oficeof this company.
The time of commencement of this corporation
shall be the fourteenth day of October, A. D.
1856, and the period of its continuance shall be
fifty (50) years therefrom.
III.
The amount of capital stock of this corporation
shall be one hundred thousand dollars (S100, O00),
twenty per cent (20) of which shall be paid in
cash. the balance in such amounts and manner as
shall be determined by the Board of Directors
".
The highest amount of Indebtedness or liability
to which this corporation shall be at any time SUBJ
ject exclusive of its contingent liability in con.
necton with its policies of insurance. shall be the
sum of ten thousand dollars $4,000.
sons forming this association or corporation are
as follows: H. c. Mead, Minneapolis, Mimi,
Isaac Staples, saltwater, MIMI, George w. Cory.
Chicago. Ills, Newton McKusick, saltwater,
Mimi, George W. Sherwood, st. Paul. Mimi, D.
w. Woodmansee. st. Paul Mimi, S. S. Eaton. st.
Paul, Mimi, e. c. Long, st. Paul. Mimi, Edwin
A. Jaggard. st. Paul, Mimi, A. DeGraf, st. Paul,
Mimi, A G. Wilcox. Minneapolis, Mimi.
VI
The government of this corporation and the
management of its affairs shall be vested in a
Board OF Directors composed of elevenQD men,
bers, and to be chosen by the stockholders annu-
ally, from among their own members at the an
nual meeting of this corporation. each and every
year. commencing with the annual eeting in the
year 1887.
The officers of this corporation shall consist of a
president, first and second vice presidents,
tary, treasurer who shall be stockholders and
shall be chosen by the Board of Directors at their
first meeting Immediately succeeding the annual
meeting of the stockholders. All officers and
directors shall hold their Office until their success
sors are elected and qualified.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of this
corporation shall be held on the second Tuesday
in January of each year. If for any reason there
should be failure to elect officers at the times
specified above, such election may be had at any
special meeting of the stockholders, or at any
meeting of the Board of Directors respectively,
called for that purpose.
The following persons shall constitute the Board
of Directors of this corporation until the annual
stockholders meeting in 1887: Isaac Staples
George w. Sherwood, Newton McKusiek S. S.
Eaton E. c. Long, E. A Jaggard, Charles A. De
Graf. A. G. Wilcox. ID. W. WOodmansee, II. c.
Mead, George W Cory.
The first officers of this corporation shall be
chosen at the first meeting of said Board OF
Directors.
VII.
The number and amount of shares of capital
stock of this corporation shall be one thousand
Q,000) shares at one hundred dollars (S100) each.
In witness whereof we have hereunto placed our
hands and seals this 9Th day of October, A. D.