Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-02-25
Charter of the Creek Lumber Com
pany of Epps, Perry
County. MiSSiSSiDpi.

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Steadman and Fl. Nall and such others
as may be associated with them are
hereby created a corporation and body
polite to be known and designated as
the CREEK LUMBER 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-
mrnt in any court. They may have a
corporate seal and may change and al
ter the same ut 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
an may have all such other pnwers 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 1t
may borrow money or create debts and
secure payment by mortgage, deed of
trust, OIL 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 is created are to en-
gage in and prosecute the manufac-
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. britk, 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 urchas, and acquire lands, tim
Der and prope' ty needful and useful in
laid enterprise; and they may make,
build, equip. and operate such dummy
hires, tram roads, cars. engines, and
machinery and such other conveyances,
dams, bitches, ponds, chutes, and bOoms
az may he necessary nr useful for con
veyiu.. timber a.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,
!urpentiue and resin distlleries, and
they may cultivate turpentine orchards
and buy such products of turpentine,
imber, and other things that may be
necessary or useful to any or all Of the
foregoing objects; and they may erect,
put mp, own, and acquire such tele-
phone, Telegraph. and electric light
poles, wires aud plants as may be
necessary or useful tor the purposes foI
which they sre intended, and they may
string thereon such wires as may be
useful, and needful and keep, own and
operate ali such alta chments, machln-
cry, etc., that may be useful or neces-
~ary 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
il that they may think useful or necesa
nv to the successful conduct of their
said business
Sec 8. The control and management
of said corporation shall be vested in Il
board of directors to be composed of
four stock holders whose numSer NAV
De increased ty a vote of p majority of
the stockholders to seven who shall be
ch sen annually on the first day of
March, 1903, and annually thereafter
unless said stockholders 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 shall
fail to elect directors on the date named
herein, or on the date hereafter fixed
for such purpose, then they may do so
any day upon notice thereof duly served
for at least ten days on said stockhold
ers. Said directors shall he elected by
majority vote of the stock rs directed
by law and from said directt RS presi
dent, vice pre- sident, secretary and
treasurer shall be elected, but the Office
of secretary and treasure r ray be held
by one person at the discretion of the
stockholders; the said directors shad
hold their office for twelve monthsa1 d
until their successors are elected and
qualified, but 20 person shall he dl
rector of the corporation unless he be n
,tockholder iherein The board of di
rectors may ppoint or elect all oth-r
officers, agents and employees and fix
their compensation "a NAV be deem-d
necessary or proper for the successful
condct and management of said busl
ne7s and may also employ such labor
ers. servants and agents and fix the
com Jensation as they may see proper.
bur there shall be no salaried Officers
kept superintendent aud secretary
unless anthorized b, two-third vote nf
the stock; the board may make such
rules, regulations and bylaws as may
"a useful aud necessary for the proper
and -fficien transaction of he business
of the corporate, anc ay require or
any or al, Of its officers agents and
employees 70 give bond in such sums as
may he fixed by the hoard for the faith
full and efficient performance of their
several duties and for the safe keeping
of the money. hooks and valuables of
said corporation coming Into their
hand respectively.
See 4. The capital stock OF the
REX Lumber ompany is hereby fixed