Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-17
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION
Of the IIatlissSurg Cotton Oil Company.


sec. Ire following named pc, sons,
viz: d. G.. McRaney, w. NJ. Conner,
j. S. Turner. j. G. Carley. II. L, Foote,
A u. Montgomery, 5. l.. heidelberg.
Il. N Collins. s. G.. Eaton. T. E. Ross,
F. w. Foote. S G. Tucker, P. A. Car
ter, G. II. Stevens, V. Il. Deese, J. Il.
Mathison z. } Hubbard. B. D. Moore,
q =. Robertson and their associates
and successors. are hereby created Il
body corporate under the corporate
name of the Harrisburg Cotton Oil
Company, doniciled at the City of
HattieshcTg in Perry County, Mississ.
ippi, and may continue as such for a
period of fifty years Its capital stock
is hereby fixed at the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, divided into five hun.
dred shares of 500 each, to be
evidenced By certificates issued under
the corporate seal Of the Company to
subscribers and pure hasers who may
be entitled to the same, but the comps
ny may organize and begin business
when five thousand dollars have been
paid in,
Section 2. The objects and purposes
for which this corporation is formed are
to manufacture and sell all useful prod
ucts that may De made from cotton seed
such as oil, meal. oil cake, bulls, lint
ers, and whatever else may be made
from cotton seed or any product OF cot
ton seed, such "a. soap and axle grease; ;
to manufacture fertilizers from cotton
seed products; to gin and press cotton in
the bales. 10 that end the said corpO
ration may buy, own, lease and hold all
IL al and personal property necessary to
carry on The business probably and sue
cessfully. It may buy, bald or lease
tenement houses for the use of its op
eratives and employees, and may rent
the same 10 them; it may buy, build or
lease warehouses or storage houses at
any point or place in the State for
housing or storing cotton seed, or cotton
seed products, and may do any and all
other acts necessary or expedient for
the successful conduct and manage
nent of its business, not in conflict
with law.
Section 3 It's affairs shall be man
aged by board of not less than five
and IN re than nine directors, and the
/ first board hall b. chosen from among
the incorporators. who shall serve for
one year and until their successors are
elected and qualified. All subsequent
| directors shalt be chosen from among
| the stockholders and shall serve for a
period CT one year and until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified, but
provision may be made in the by laws
for the removal of any director for in
competency o. other sufficient cause.
The officers shall be President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer,
and their duties shall be defined in the
by laws
Section 4. This corporation shall
have all the rights, powers and priv
ileges col ferred by chapter twenty five
amendments made thereto.
AS soon as this charter has been APP
proved by the Governor and recorded
by the Secretary of State, the incorpo-
ratJrs may meet at time and place IL
the city of Hatliesburg, to be previously
named IN notice for that purpose which
notice may be sent TO each incorporation
through the mails, and organize thu
company by fixing the number of direc
tors and electlng the same from among
the incorporates, who shall immediate
" elect the officers named in the pre-
ceeding section.
Section 5. When thus organized th'
board of directors may proceed at once
to do such acts as may be necessary Il
carry out the objects and purposes o
!. this corporation, not in conflict witt
the constitution and laws of the State Of
of the United States.