Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-03-02
Charter of the Creek Lumber Com
pany of Epps, Perry
County, Mississippi.

pany OF EppS, Perry
County, mississippi.
Section /. Be it known hereby that
J. f. Wilder, E. W. Imam, r. N.
Steadman and g. Nail and such others
az may be associated with them are
hereby created q corporation and body
polite to be known and designated as
the CREEK LUMBER COMPANY;
the domicile of which IS st '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-
mcnt In any court. They may have a
corporate seal and may change and al
ter the same mt 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 80 far as the same
shall be applicable to said corporations
and may have all such other powers as
like corpopations have either by statute
or common law. They shall 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 cell, least, contract, mortgage
and dispose of same at pleasure; and 1t
may borrow mouey or create debts and
secure payment by mortgage. deed of
trust, Oh 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
posed of wood, wholly or partially, and
the manufacturing of lumber and tim
bers and also IN the manufacturing of re
sin and pirits of turpentIne. bri k, til
ing, and pottery and for this end
they may erect, keep, put up,
and operate such machinery,
mills, aud 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 purchase and acquire lands, tim
Der and property needful and useful in
said enterprise; and they may Tuake,
build, equip, and operate such dummy
lines, tram roads, cars, engines, and
machinery and such other conveyances,
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as may be necessary or useful for con
veying timber and 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,
turpentiue and resin distllleries, and
they may cultivate turpentine orchards
and buy such products of turpentine,
timber, and other THU gs that may b.
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 tor the purposes fol
which they are intended, and they may
string thereon such wires as may bt
useful, and needful and keep, own an(
operate all such attachments. machlu
cry, ETC., that may be useful or neces
sary to said business or any part there
of. They may also purchase, acquir'
and erect store buildings and operate
general mercantile business. both retail
and wholesale, ar.d may buy, sell ant
dispose OF goods of any and all kinds
and NAV establish such branch store
and such branch saw and planning mill
and turpentine distilleries as they ma
think proper or necessary and may es
tablish such lumber yards, snch office
and land agencies in this state or out q
it that they may think useful or necesa
nv to the successful conduct OF thei
said business
Sec. 3. The control and management
of said corporation shall be vested in
board Of directors to be composed G
tour stockholders whose numser ma
be increased by g vote of = majority c
the stockholders TO seven who shall b
CHI sen annually on the first day {
March, 1903, and annually thereafte
unless said stockholders shall. by rest
luton or by law, change the date OF 81
nusl meeting to some other day, and
the stockholders FROM any cause sha
fail to elect directors on the date name
herein, or on the date hereafter fixe
for such purpose, then they may do
any day upon notice thereof duly serve
for atleast ten days on said stock hole
ers. Said directors shall he elected
naiorfty vote of the stock a. directs
BY law and from sail direct, re- a pres
dent, vice president, secretary al
treasurer shall be eleeted, but the OH
Of secretary and treasure r n ay be he
BY one person at the discretion OF 4
stockholders; the said directors sh,
hold their Office for twelve monthsar
until their successors are elected Al
qualified, but no person shall be {
rector of the corporation unless he be
stockholder therein. The board Of (
rectors may ppoint or elect all 9th
oficers, agents and employees and
their compensation as may be deem
necessary or proper for the successl
conduct and management of said bu
ness and may ALEC employ such labt
ers, servants and agents and tx tn
com 3ensation as they may see prop
but there shall be no ssalaried ofiic
except superintendent and secreti
unitas authorized BY two-third vote
the stock; the board may make ~