St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-12
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4 RTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
n the &C. G. Lewis Coal Company
Know all men by these presents that we,
whose names are hereto subscribed have
agreed to associate ourselves together for tha
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 corr
poration shall be and is the &C. c. Lewis
Coal Company
The general nature of the business of this
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, i'll 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. ID. 1891, ana the tine of its continue
aGce is twenty (20) years.
Article lII.-The amount of the capital
stock of this corporation shall be twenty-five
thousand (S25,O00) dollars. and said capital
stock shall be divided into five hundred $500
shares of fifty C50) 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 i'll 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 stakeholder 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 OF 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 10 which SAID corporation
shall al any time be subject is nifty thousand
$50, 000) dollars.
Article Y.--Thc name and places Of resi-
dence of the persons forming this corpora
ton are as follows. tO-Wit:
Curtis G.. Lewis. St. Paul, Minnesota;
Charles X. Heneage, st. Paul, Minnesota:
George Dinwoodie st. Paul, Minnesota
Article NI-The government and manage
ment of said corporation shall be vested III a
board of three "a directors, to be elected an
nually by the stockholders from among their
number at the annual meeting in each'vear
to be held OH the second Monday
in May, provided the board of di- d.
rectors 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 c.
Lewis, Charles X. Heneage and George Din
woode.
The directors, after the first herein named.
shall 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
A Secretary, and
Treasurer
upon the organization Of the first board. and
thereafter each year as soon as conyenient
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 general and special meetings of the
stockholders, and 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 in the offices or in the board of di.
rectors.
In witness whereof, we. the persons here
inbefore named as incorporates have here
unto subscribed our names and affixed our
seals, each for himself, this 29th day Of May,
A. d. 1891.
CURTIS G. LEWIS, (ScaI1
CHARLES r. nENEAGE, lSeaL
GEO. DINWCODIE, tSeaI1
In presence Of
GEO. HUGHES MEAD
G. MACNAMARA.
II. b. BRAGG, n.,,-