Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-20
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION
Of the Hatiicsburg Cotton Oil Company

Sec. Ire following named persons,
viz d. C. McIIaney, w. ID. Conner,
j. s. Turner, J. C. Carley, H. L, Foote,
Il. n Collins $. c. Eaton, I. E. Ross,
F. w. Foote. ) C. Tucker, P. A. Car
Ter, c.. II. Stevens, V. I. Deese, J. Il.
Mathison Y. J. Hubbard. B. d. Moore,
q =. Robertson and their associates
and successors, are hereby created a
body corporate under the corporate
name Of the Harrisburg Cotton Oil
Company. domiciled at the City of
HattiesbGrg in 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 be
evidenced by certificates issued under
/, the corporate seal Of the Company to
Subscribers and purt hasers who may
be entitled TO the same, but the compa-
nv may organize and begin business
when five Thousand dollars hive been
paid in,
Section g. The objects ana purposes
for which this corporation Is formed are,
to manufacture and sell all useful prod
ucts that may be- made from cotton seed
such as oil. meal. oil cake, hulls, lint
1 ers, and whatever else may be made
from cotton seed or any product OF cot
| ton seed, such as 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
caIry on he 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 OF. 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 aud 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 be- chosen from among
the incorporators who shall serve for
one year and until their successors are
elected and qualified. All subsequent
directors shall be chosen from among
the stockholders and shall serve for IA
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 or other sufficient cause.
The officers shall be President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer,
and their duties shall be defined in the
by laws
Section T. This corporation shall
have all the rights, powers and priv
ileges conferred by chapter twenty five
of the Annotated Code of 1922, and any
amendments made thereto.
AS soon as this charter has been ap'
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 previousl,
named IN notice for that purpose which
notice may be sent to each Incorporate
through the mails, and organize tn
company by fixing the number of direc
5 tors and electIng the same from amoni
! the incorporators, who shall immediate
ly elect the officers named in the pre-
ceeding section.
Section 5. When thus organized tn
board of directors may proceed at ono
:, to do such acts as may be necessary t
: carry out the objects and purposes o
this corporation, not in conflict wit
I the constitution and laws of the State o
of the United States.