Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-02-11
Charter of the Creek Lumber Com
pany of Epps, Perry
County, Mississippi.

iot6dQmdD anu n. NAH anu 5ucu OlueT
as may be associated with them are
hereby created corporation and body
polite to be known and designated IA
the CREEK LII 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 jndg
ment in any court They may have a
corporate seal and may change and III
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
ann may have all such other powers as
like corporations have either by statute
or common law. They shall have the
power to purchase, acquire and hold
property, real, personal ard 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; an 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 it, property.
Sec. 2 The purposes for which
this corporation IL 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 ~
sin and pirits IF turpentIne. 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 urchase ana acquire lands, tim
Der and property needful and useful in
said enterprise; and they may make,
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 AID holding same for
said saw and pllining 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 distlleries, and
they may cultivate turpentine 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-
nh falp Etrt1
poles, wires and plants as NAV 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 ali such alta chmepts, machIa-
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 opei ate
general Inner camille business. both retail
and wholesale, aid may buy, sell and
dispose of goods of any and all kinds,
and NAV 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 g. The control and management
of said corporation shall be vested in IA
board of directors TO be composed of
four stock holders whose numSer NAV
be increased ty vote of u majority of
the stockholders to seven who shall be
CHI, sen annually on the first day of
March, 1903, and annually thereafter
unless said stoc kholders shall by reso-
luton or by law, change the date Of an
nual meeting TO some other day, and If
the stockholders FROM any cause snail
fail to elect directors on the date named
herein, or on the date hereafter fixed
fo- such purpose, then they may do so
any day upon notice thereof duly served
for at least ten days on said stock hold
ers. Said directors shall he elected by
majority vote of the stock as directed
by law and from said directors presi
dent, vice PR sident, secretary and
treasurer shall be elected, but the Office
of secretary and treasui er may be held
by one person at the discretion of the
stockholders: the said directors shad
hold their Office for twelve monthsal d
until their successors are elected and
qualified, but no person shall be dl
rector of the corporation unless he be
stakeholder therein The board of di
rectors may ppoini or elect all other
officers, agents and employees and fix
their compensation as NAV be deemed
necessary or proper for the successful
condct and management of said busi
ness aud may also employ such labor
ers, servants and agents and fix their
com pensation rs they may see proper.
but there shall be no salaried officer
Keep, superintendent and secretary
nnless ant ufiz q Ii rwa-ti ird vote ct
the stock; the board may AXE snch
rules. regulations and bylaws as may
he useful and necessary for the proper
and rfficient 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
ful and efficient performance of their
several duties and for the safe eeping
of the money, books and valnables of
said corporation coming into their
hands respectively
SEC rh- capital -tnck of the
r. IN ab-r om <<ss.y is h-rahy fxs4
1t S95, 900 10 Do disided ito shares VI