St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-26
4 RTIcLEs OF INCORPORATION OF

4 RTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
n the &c. q. Lewis Coal Company -
Know all men by these presents, that We
whose names are hereto subscribed have
agreed to associate ourselves together for the
purpose of incorporation under the laws and
statutes of the State Of Minnesota, and do
hereby adopt and sign the following articles
of Incorporation:
Article 1.-The corporate name of this cor
poration shall be and is the &C. G. Lewis
Coal Company"
corporation shall be and is the buying, sell
ing and dealing in coal, coke. wood and all
kinds of fuel, and the undertaking of any
operations and the purchase and holding of
any property that may be necessary in the
aforesaid business and any part thereof
The principal place of the transaction of
the business of this corporation shall be in
the City OF st. Paul. in the County Of Ram
sey, and State of Minnesota.
Article 1.-THE time of the commence
ment of this corporation is the LIST day of
June, A. d. 1884, and the time of its eontinu-
| ance is twenty (20) years.
Article IIL-The amount of the capital
| stock of this corporation shall be twenty-five
| thousand (S25,0O0) dollars, and said capital
| stock shall be divided into five hundred $500
| shares OF fifty 500 dollars each.
| No stock, nor any certificate of stock, shall
| at any time be issued until the full par value
| thereof has been actually paid in In money.
| said corporation may purchase and buy in its
! own stock, and the stock so purchased and
| extinguish or hold the same without merger
| or extinguishment, or may reissue the same
| as the board Of directors may determine and
| elect.
Before any stockholder can sell his stock
| or have the same transferred he shall first
| offer the same to said corporation for sale
| ten days before, and the said corporation
| shall have the first privilege or buying the
| same for the same price the said stakeholder
| offers TO sell said stock and can sell the same
| to any other person.
| Article IV.-The highest amount of indebt-
| edness or liability TO which said corporation
| shall al any time be subject IS nifty thousand
| (S50,000) dollars
| Article V.-The name and places OF resi-
dence of the persons forming this corpora
| ton are as follows, to-wit:
Curtis c. Lewis st. Paul, Minnesota;
| Charles X. Heneage, St Paul, Minnesota;
| George Dinwoodie, st. Paul, Minnesota
Article VI-The government and manage
ment of said corporation shall be vested in a
| board OF three ca directors, to be elected an
nually by the stockholders from among their
| number at the annual meeting in each year
| TO be held on the second Monday
iu May, provided the board of d.
Iectors herein named shall hold their Office
! as such until their successors are elected and
| qualified. The names of the persons who
shall constitute the first board of directors of
| said corporation are the aforesaid Curtis G.
| Lewis, Charles X. Heneage and George Din
| WoOde.
! The directors, after the first herein named,
| snail be elected annually as aforesaid, and
/ shall hold meeting of directors for the cleo
| ton of officers from their own number for
| the corporation, who shall consist of
| A President
| A Vice President
| Secretary, and
| A Treasurer,
| upon the organization of the first board. and
| thereafter each year as soon as convenient
| after the adjournment of the stockholders
| annual meeting.
| The offices of President and Treasurer NAV
| be held by the same person. and the Offices of
| Vice President and Secretary may be held by
! the same person.
| Such generalan special meetings of the
! stockholders, aud also of the directors may
| be called and held as the interests of the bus
! mess OF the corporation may require.
| The directors shall have power to fill every
| vacancy i'll the offices or in the board of d.
| rectors.
| In witness whereof, we. the persons here
| inbefore named as ineorporators have here
| unto subscribed our names and affixed our
| seals each for himself, this 18th day of May,
| A. d. 1891.
| CURTIS G. LEWIS, rSeall
| CHARLES r. HENEAGE, 1Seal1
| GEO. DINWOODIE, tSeaI.1
| In presence Of
| GEO. HUGHES MEAD,
| c. MACNAMARA.
| Il. b. BRAGG n..,..