Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-02-13
Charter Of the Creek Lumber Com
pany of Epps, Perry
County, Mississippi.

Section 1. Be it known hereby that
j. F. Wilder, L. w. Imam, r. n.
Steadman and H. Nall and such others
As may be associated with them are
hereby created corporation and body
polite TO be known and designated as
the CREEK LUM Der COMPANY;
the domicile of which is at Epps, Miss,
and the SAID corporation shall have sue
cession for fifty years and as such corpor-
alton may contract and be contracted,
sue and be sued. plead and be implead-
ed, prosecute and be prosecuted TO judg-
ment in any court. They may have d
corporate seal and may change and al
ter the same at pleasure and shall have
the rights, benefits and exemptions Civ
en- to like corporations by chapter % of
the Annotated Code of Mississippi and
amendments thereto so far as the same
shall be applicable to said corporations
ana may have all such other powers as
like corporations have either by statute
or common law. They shalt have the
power to purchase, acquire and hold
property, real, personal and mixed,
necessary and proper for this purpose,
not exceeding value allowed by law.
and may sell, least, contract, mortgage
and dispose of same at pleasure; and it
may borrow money or create debts and
secure payment by mortgage. deed of
trust, OF otherwise; may issue bonds
and secure them and may hypothicate
its franchise as we'll az its property.
Sec. 2. The purposes for which
this corporation is created are to en-
gage in and prosecute the manufac-
turing Of all kinds of products, either
finished or partially finished, COM
posedof wood, wholly or partially, and
the manufacturing of lumber and tim.
beTs and also in the manufacturing of re
sin and pirits Of turpentIne brick, til
ing, and pottery and for this end
they may erect, keep, put up,
and operate such machinery,
mills, and appliances as may
be necessary and useful for the manu-
featuring Of lumber or other wood
products and also for manufacturing of
brick, tiles, and pottery and to that end
may urchase and acquire lands, tim
Der and property needful and useful in
said enterprise; and they may mdke,
build, equip. and operate such dummy
lines, tram roads, cars, engines, and
machinery and such other conveyances,
dams, bitches, ponds, chutes, and bOoms
as may be necessary or useful for con
veying timber aud holding same for
said saw and planning mills. They
may also erect, acquire, hold, and
operate telephones, telegraph and
telephone lines, electric light
and water works plants, ice factory,
turpentine and resin distIlleries, and
they may cultivate turpentine orchards
and buy snch products of turpentine,
timber, and other things that may be
necessary or useful to any or all Of the
foregoing objects; and they may erect,
put up, own, and acquire such tele-
phone, Telegraph, and electric light
poles, wires and plants as may be
necessary or useful for the purposes foI
which they are intended, and they may
string thereon such wires as may be
useful, and needful and keep, own and
operate all such attachments, machln-
cry, ETC., that may be useful or neces-
sary to said business or any part there
of. They may also purchase, acquire
and erect store buildings and operate
general.mercantile business, both retail
and wholesale, AID may buy, sell and
dispose of goods of any and all kinds,
and may establish such branch stores
and such branch saw and planning mills
and turpentine distilleries as they may
think proper or necessary and may es-
tablish such lumber yards, such offices
and land agencies in this state or out of
it that they may think useful Or necesa-
ry to the successful conduct of their
said business.
Sec. 3. The control and management |
Of said corporation shall be vested in a |
board Of directors to be composed of |.
four stockholders whose numSer may /
be increased by vote of A majority Of i
he stockholders to seven who shall be /
chosen annually on the first day of |
March, 1903, and annually thereafter
lnless said stockholders shall. by reso-
ution or by law, change the date of an
lual meeting to some other day, and if
he stockholders FROM any cause shall
all TO elect directors on the date named
lerein, or on the date hereafter fixed
or such purpose, then they may do so
ny day upon notice thereof duly served
or at least ten days on said stockhold
RS. Said directors shall he elected by
majority vote of the stock as directed
y law and from said directors a presi-
ent, vice president, secretary and
shall be elected, but the office
f secretary and treasurer may be held
y one person at the discretion of the
the said directors shad !
old their office for twelve monthsan d
ntll their successors are elected and
1alitied, but DO person shall be d. |
.ctor Of the corporation unless he be
ockholder therein. The board of di-
'ctors may appoint or elect all other
fcers, agents and employees and fix 3
eir compensation as may be deemed
or proper for the successful 2
'ndct and management of said busl- G
'ss and may also employ such labor. 4
s, servants and agents and fix their "A
IN pensation as they may see proper.
It there shall be no salaried officers q
cept superintendent and secretary 81
less authorized by two-third vote of m
e stock; the board may make such !,
les, regulations and bylaws as NAV II
useful and necessary for the proper
d efficient transaction of the business ,ss
the corporation and may require of
? Tor all OF its officers. agents and =
ployes to give bond in such sums as N(
y be fixed by the board for the faith IN
and efficient performance of their SO,
eral duties and for the safe keeping ma
he money, books and Yaluables of ito
! corporation coming into their ela
Ids respectively. An
&c. 4. The capital stock of the
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