Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1902-06-25
CHARTER OF INCORPOR ALTON
Of the !Ialilesburg Cotton Oil Company

Sec. TIE following named persons,
viz d. c.. Mcl;aney, w. NJ. Conner,
! j $. Turner, J c. Carley. II. L. Foote,
A. L. Montgomery, s. l.. Heidelberg,
! Il. n, Collins. 5. G.. Eaton, I. F.. Ross,
+. w. Foote. 5. G. Tucker, J. P. Car
ter, @. II. Stevens, V. L. Deese, j. Il.
Mathison, z. j. Hubbard, B. d. Moore,
q. Z. Robertson. Y. M. Scanlan, Adam
Williams, j. p. Cox, j. u. Donald, g..
NJ Kennedy. G l.. Thatch, B. III. Mof-
fett, e. l.. Focte, Hemphill Bros. Co.,
A. X. Mclnni-, j. E. Shelby, j. P.
Myer, F. r. Davidson, Kennedy Bro T.,
and G l.. Hawkins, ii Dunn, H.
G.. Greer, and their assacial es
and successors, are hereby created a
body corporate under the corporate
name Of the "Hattiesturg Cotton Oil
Company. domiciled at the City OF
Hattiesburg 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 compa
ny may organize and begin b0siness
when five thousand dollars have been
paid in,
Section 3. 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
s1ch as oil, meal, oil cake, hulls, lint
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
TIC 'oarcs9. - - 8, nd raraoo cotton in
ration may buy. own, lease ana nold al
real and personal property necessary 10
carry on the business probably ana sue
cessfully. 1t may buy, build or lease
tenement houses for the use or It's op,
eratives and employees, and may rent
the same to them; 1t may buy, buiid OF
lease warehouses or storage houses AT
any point or place in the state LOT
housing or storing cotton SEED, or cotton
| seed products, and may do any ana an
other acts necessary or expedlenC lot
the successful conduct and mana2e-
ment of its business, not IN CONNER
with law.
section 3. It's affairs shall be man
aged by board of not less than nye
and m, re than nine directors, and the
first board hall be chosen from among
the incorporators who shall serve lol
one year and until their successors ar'
elected aud qualified. All subsequen
directors shall be chosen from amonI
the Stockholders and shall serve for ;
ueriod cf one year and until their sue
, cessors ART. elected and qualified, bu
nrovlsiou may be made in the by law
for the removal of any director for IN
competency or other sufficient cause
} The officers shall be d President, wee
President, Secretary and treasurer
and their duties shall be defined IN u
by laws.
Section 4. This corporation sha
have all the rights, powers and priN
: ileges conferred by chapter twenty h'
: of the Annotated Code of 1872, ana al
amendments made thereto.
AS soon as this charter has been al
nr.yed by the Governor GEd records
20 nv the Secretary of State, the incorp
"A rat;rs may meet at a time and place
II the city of Hattiesburg, to be previous
named IN a notice for that purpose viii
notice may be sent to each lncorporal
through the mails, aud organize I
II company by fixing the number OF dire
Il tors and electlng the same from amo
/ the ineorporators, who shall immedla'
is " elect the officers amazed in the pI
ceeaing section.
ID Section 8. When thus organized |
Il board of directors may proceed at Oh
4 TO do such acts as may be necessary
III carry out the objects and purposes
this corporation, not in conflict W
the constitution and laws OF the State
of the United States.