The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-01-23
Charter Of Incorporation Of the
MERCANTILE COMPANY

]. The name of this corporation shall
| be the WNTEEyILLE MERCANTILE Com
4 PANY.
2. The principal place of business anC
domicile of said corporation shall be al
| WinteTville. in Washington County
/ Mississippi, but directors and stockhold
ers' meetings may be held at any pClnt
in said county agreed upon by the stock.
/ hold ers or directors. And by vote Of
a ma iority of the stockholders said dom.
/ icile Luay be at any time changed to any
1 other point in said county; and said
/ corpor alton may establish and operate
| branch establishments at such Other
points as it may see fit, and sucl
l branches shall have all the powers and
privil eyes contained in this Charter
| and [ HAPPIER 25 of the Annotated Code
| of Mi iSissippi, as it now stands, or may
| be he -eafter amended.
3. i he persons forming said corpora
| tion re Maude f. Barnes, Hattie WilcZ-
inski and Florence WilcZlnski, and such
othe persons as may hereafter be assO-
ciat, I'd with them as stockholders and
such persons and their successors and
associates shall have succession for the
per iod of fifty years from the date of or
ga iZation of this corporation, unless
Its, corporate existence shall be deter
h Olders.
4. Said corporation shall have power
TO organize and engage IN business when
$4,000 of the stock therein shall have
been subscribed and paid for. The cap
ital stock of said corporation shall be
500, 10000, which may be increased at
any time by vote of a majority of the
stock then outstanding; and the shares
of stock shall be Of the denomination OF
$4,000 each, The incorpOrators named
may meet at any time within thirty
days from the approval of this Charter
bv the Governor; said meeting to be
held in GreenYille, Mississippi, upon one
or more days notice given in writing
by any one of said incOrporators to the
other two. And at such meeting, and
ia all the affairs of said corporation, a
stpckholder or director may be repre-
sehted by written proxy.
>. This corporation Is created for the
purpose of engaging in planting, mer-
camille and trading business, and it
shall have authority to do all acts con-
neeted with the business for which it is
organized, not inconsistent with the
constitution and laws of the State Of
Mississippi, and shall have all the pow
er and authority conferred by Chapter
70 OF the Annotated Code Of Mississip-
pi, and such amendments as may be
made thereto.
6. Said stockholders may organize
said corporation by the election Of such
officers and directors rs they may see
tit, and owning stock in said corpora
tiOn shall not be a requisite to being an
officer or director in it, and the stock
holders may at any time increase or
diminish the number OF directors and
the tenure of Office and the salary of its
officers, and may adopt by laws, deter
mine the manner of calling and con-
Quoting stockholders and directors
meetings, the method of voting at same.
the mode of transferring stock in said
corporation, the number of such meet
ings to be held, and generally, NAV pass
any bylaws necessary and convenient
to the government Of said corporation. |
not contrary to law.
I, Said corporation shall have the pow /
er TO at any time by vote of majority /
of its stock, merge Itself into or consol- |
idate itself with any other corporation. /
and such corporation, created by mer- /
ger and consolidation, shall, I'm addition /
70 whatever other powers il may pos
sess, have all the powers and priv
ileges and franchises conferred bv this |
charter upon this corporation.
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