Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-02-24
Charter of the Greek Lumber Com
pany of Epps, Perry
County. MiSSiSSipDi.

section /. be II known hereby tina
j. f. Wilder. E. w. Imam, r. N
Steadman and 81. Nall and such other
as may be associated with them arr
hereby created a corporation and bod,
polite TO be known and designated u
the CREEK LUMBER COMPANY
the domicie 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 indg-
| mcnt in any court. They may have a
corporate seal and may change and vi
ter thr same ut pleasure and shall have
the rights, benefits and exemptions Civ
en- TO like corporations 10y chapter % OF
the Annotated Code of Mississippi and
amendments thereto so far as the same
shall be applicable to said corporations
an may have all such other D ,wers as
like corporations 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 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 as 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
bers and also IN the manufacturing of re-
sin and pirits Of turpentlne. bri>k, 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 urchast and acquire lands, TIM
Der and prope' ty needful and useful in
>aid enterprise; and they may make,
build, equip, and operate such dummy
lipes, tram roads, cars, engines, and
machinery and such other coDveyances,
dams, bitches, ponds, chutes, and booms
as may be necessary or useful for con
vey inG timber d holding same for
said saw and planning mills. they
may also erect, acquire. hold, and
operate tel phones, telegraph anC
telephone lines, electric light
md wa er works plants. ice factory,
rurpentiue and resin dislllleries, and
they may cultivate turprntine orchards
and buy such 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 tor the purposes foI
" mich they are intended, and they may
string thereon such wires as may be
Useful, and needful and keep, own and
operate all such alta chmepts. machln-
nv, ETC., that may be useful or neces-
AIRY to said business or any part there |
If. hey may also purchase, acquire !
md erect store buildings and oper ate a |
general mer camille business. both retail |
md wholesale, AID may buy, sell and |
dispose of goods of any and all kinds, |
md may establish such branch stores |
md snch branch saw and planning mills |
md turpentine distiIleries as they may |
hink proper or necessary and may es-
ablish such lumber yards, such offices |
md land agencies in this state or OUT of |
t that they may think useful or necesa /
y to the successful conduct Of their |
aid business
Sec 3. The control and management |
# said corporation shall ne vested in a
:. y Z
our stock holders whose numSer NAV |
De increased ty vote of majority of |
he stockholders to seven who shall be |
h, sen annually on the first day of
arch, 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 |
,ail to elect directors on the date named |
herein, or on the date hereafter fixed |
'o- such purposa, then they may do so |
any day upon notice thereof duly Served |
Tor at least ten days on said stockhold |
ers. Said directors shall he elected by |
majority vote of the stock as directed |
by law and from said directors presi |
dent, vice pre- sident, secretary and |
treasurer shall be elected, but the Office |
Of secretary and treasQi er ay be held
by one person at the discretion of the |
the said directors shad
hold their Office for twelve monthsa1 d
until their successors are elected and
qualified, but no person shall be al
rector of the corporation unless he be a
stockholfer therein The board of di
rectors may ppoini or elect all oth-r
officers, agents and employees and fix
their compensation az may be deemed
necessary or proper for the successful
cOndct and management of said bust
ness and may also employ such labor
ers, servants and agents and fix The Ii
as they may see proper.
but there shall he no salaried officer
xcept superintendent and secretary
unless authorized by two-third vote of
the stock; the board may make such
rules, regulations and bylaws as may
te useful and necessary for the proper
and tfficienr transaction of the business
of the corporation and may require of
any or all Of its officers agents and
employees to give bond in such sums as
may be fixed by the hoard for the faith
FIJI and efficient performance of their
several duties and for the safe keeping
of the money books and valuables of
said corporation coming Into their
hands respectively.
Sec a. The CAPITAL stock of the