Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-12
CHARTER OF lNCORP0RAT
Of the lIatties5urg Cotton Oil Company.

Sec. TIE following named pc sons,
viz: d. c. Mckaney, w RI Conner,
J S. Turner. ! G. Carley. II. l.. Foote.
A. L. Montgomery. S. l.. heidelberg.
*. n Collins. $. G. EIton, I. z. Ross,
r. w. Foote, S G. Tucker, p A. Car
ter, c. Ii. Stevens, V. Il. Deese, j. y.
Nathison, e. } hubbard, 3. ID. Moore,
& =. Robertson aud their associates
and successors. are hereby created a
body corporate under the corporate
name of the "Hattitsburg Cotton Oil
Company" dOniciled at the City Of
HattiesbGrg ia Perry County, Mississ-
ippi, and may continue as such for
period OF fifty years. It's capital stock
is hereby fixed at the sum OF fifty
thousand dollars, divided into five hun
dred shares of 500 each, to b.
evidenced by certificates issued under
the corporate seal of the Company TO
subscribers and pure hssers who may
be entitled TO the same, but the compt
ny may organize and begin business
when five Thousand dollars h:ve been
paid in,
Section 2. The objects AMI purposes
for which this corporation is formed are,
to manufacture aud sell all useful prod
ucts that may be made from cotton seed
such as oil, meal. oil cake, hullS, lint
ers, and whatever else may be made
/ from cotton seed or any prOdnct OF Cot
ton seed, sucn a., soap and axle grease;
| to manufacture fertilizers from cotton
seed products; to gin and press cotton in
the bales. To that end the said corpo-
ration may buy, own, lease and hold all
real and personal property necessary to
carry on the business prohtablY and sue
cessfully. 1t may buy, build or lease
/ tenement houses for the use of its OPP
/ eratives and employees, and may rent
the same to them; it may buy, build or
lease warehouses or storage houses at
any point or place in the State fol-
housing or storing cotton seed, or cotton
seed products, and may do any and al
other acts necessary or expedient foi
the successful conduct and manage
ment of its business, not in conflici
with law.
Section 3. Its affairs shall be man
aged by board of not less than fiys
and no re than nine directors, and the
first board hall be chosen from among
: the incorporators. who shall serve 70
one year and until their successors ar,
elected and qualified. All subsequen
directors shall be chosen from anon;
the stockholders and shall serve for
! period CT one year and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified, bu
provision may be made in the by law
for the removal of any director for Ia
competency or other sufficient cause
The officers shall be President, Vice
: President, Secretary and Treasurer
and their duties shall be defined in th
by laws.
a Section 4. This corporation sha'
have all the rights, powers and priv
ileges conferred by chapter twenty fiv
of the Annotated Code of 1892, and an
amendments made thereto.
=. AS soon as this charter has been az
proved by the Governor and recorde
by the Secretary o. State, the incorpo
~ rat3rs may meet at time and place /
the city of Hattiesburg, TO be previonsl
naInedl IN 8 notice for that purpose whic
I: notice may be sent TO each Incorporate
"a through the mails, and orgsnize II
IS company by fixing the number Of dire
& tors and eiectIng the same from amor
the incorporators. who shall immediat,
~ elect the officers named in the Or,
It. ceeding section.
= Section 5. When thus organized Il
ch board Of directors may proceed at on
ne to do such acts as may be necessary
carry out the objects and purposes
this corporation, not in conflict WI
y. the constitution and laws Of the State
Of the United States.