Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-09-10
Ex-coNFEDERATE MEETING.
Means to Be Used for Maintenance of
Home at Higginsvllle.

At the meeting of the local camp OF
ex-Confederates held at the A. o. u,
w. hall Saturday afternoon the Sec
Rotary, r. 8. Mckinney, was ordered
to get the name of one ex-Confederate,
or other person favorable to the
home, in each school district of this
county and write them urgently to
collect all they can to defray expenses
of the home until the plan indicated
by the amendment of the charter, sec
tion four, is put in operation.
They also reported favorably upon
the proposed amendments, which
came about as follows:
The committee appointed at Lib
erty, Mo-, September 26, 1895, to pro-
pose a new charter or amend the
present charter of the Confederate
Home at H~igginsville, Mo-, composed
of Berry Phillips, Ell. M. Ramey, Jas.
w. Boyd and w. IL. Kennan, win rec
ommend that the original charter of
said home be amended by striking out
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charter and inserting other sections
in their stead. Section four, as
amended, giving the plan, etc., win
read Is follows:
"Section 4.-For the purpose of OBJ
tanning funds with which to effectuate
the objects and purposes of this assoc
citation, there shall be issued ten
thousand certificates of membership,
each of the denomination of
twenty dollars and payable in
twenty annual installments of one
dollar, signed by the president
and attested by the secretary under
the seal of the corporation. Such
certificates shall be denominated:
'Eleemosynary Stock of the Ccnfed-
crate Home Association of Missouri
"Any person desiring to become a
member of this association shall SUBJ
scribe and pay for at least one certif-
cate of said stock, according to the
terms and conditions therein written,
and upon payment of the first annual
installment shall become a member,
receive a certificate of stock, be en-
rolled, entitled to vote, to hold office
and to all the rights of membership.
Paid up stock may be issued at any
time when the face value thereof has
been paid to this association.
"If any member fail or refuse to
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certificate of stock held by him when
the same becomes due, or within such
time thereafter as may be provided
by the bylaws of this corporation,
the association may ~collectthe amount
due thereon by suit, or declare for
feited such certificates of stock on
which any installment is due and I'M
paid; and if such member shall de-
fault in the payment of all INSTALL
ments due and payable by him, the
name of such member may be stricken
from the roll of membership. If such
nonpayment is the result of inability
to pay, the Board of Directors may
make such adjustment with such MEM
Der al may be equitable and to that.
end may issue to him certificates of
stock paid up for such an amount as
may be agreed upon: Provided, furth-
or, that in lieu of all certificates of
stock which may be forfeited, the
Board of Directors may issue new
stock for as many twentieths of such
forfeited stock as may be unpaid to
any person desiring to become a mem-
Der of this association, or who may
subscribe and pay for the same. 3
sat the expiration of twenty years
from the date on which the first GER
tificate of stock is issued, or
when the property of this asso-
citation is no longer needed for the
purpose stated in section 8 of these
articles, all of the property then be-
longing to this association may be
disposed of and divided pro rata
among the holders of the stock OF this
corporation, or may be disposed of in
such manner as may be determined
upon by the members of this associa-
tiOn,D