The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-16
THE CHARTER
Of Incorporation of B. E. Brister
Mercantile Company.

/. Know all men by these presents: That b.
E. RriSter, +. +. Brister, l. v. Brster and j. A.
Brister, their associates and successors, be and
they are hereby crea ted a body polite and cor
porate under the laws of the State of Missss-
ippi for tile purposes hereinafter stated
IL. The name OF the corporation is B. E.
BRiSTER MERCANTILE COMPANY.
Ill. The dOmcile and main office of the cor
poration shall be in the village of Bogue Chitto
Lincoln County, Mississippi, but it may e>tab-
llsh such branch offices as t may deem proper
". The purposes for which the corporation
is formed are:
To buy and sell or otherwise to deal or to
trafe In any and all SUCH articles of commerce
and merchandise us are usually bought and sold
by retail or wholesale general merchants in the
ordinary C iurSe OF trade.
10 buy and sell or otherwise deal or to traffic
in any and all kinds of goods. wares and me.
chandise, farm and plantation supplies, or farm
and country produces.
To buy and sell or otherwise to deal or traffic
in all such property, whether real, personal, or
Mixed as may be deemed necessary to ad-
vance the interest of the corporation.
10 acquire, own, lease, occupy. use, or i'm
prove any lands, buildings or other property
and to construct buildings and any other struc-
lures necessary for the purposes and business
OF the corporation.
To buy and sell, deal and traffic in such COM
modties and articles of commerce as are usually
bought and sold in trade and the sale OF which
is not prohibited by law, the main purposes
OF the corp ration being to inaugnrate, e,tab-
camille establishment.
V. The powers to be exercised by this CO.
operation are those defined and specified by
Chapter rs OF the Annoted Code of Mississippi
OF 1892 and especially those set out in Sections
S36, $685. S42, S43 and S44; of the said Code and
also Section 1851 of the SAID Code, and the Acts
OF the Legislature amendatOry of and supple
mentary to the foregoing laws, and which are
necessary and proper for carrying out the pur-
poses OF this corporation, All the statute laws
Of the State of Mississippi pertaining TO corpor-
ations now In force anu existing are here re-
ferred to and made a part uf TINS charter the
Same as though set out and Incorporated here
in. The corporation Shall have power to issue
any part OF its CAPT al stock as prelcrred stock,
aud to issue such bonds and obIigationS as it
may from time to time. determine. and to do all
things in the conduct and management of said
business which natifat pei son or partnership
could do.
VI, The capital stock of this corpo alton
shall be not more than Thirty thousand dollars,
divided into three hundred shares of the par
Value Of one hundred doll4rs each, with poaer
IN the Stockholders to fix tre capital stock at
any amount less than the aa0Ye sum anu may
increase or diminish the same d pleasure. Sub
ScrlptionS Tor StocR may be paid III money OF
property at its cash value.
VII. The officers of this corporation shall be
President, Vice President secretary, Trets-
urer, and Board OF directors. consisting Of
such number as the Bylaws may provide. rhe
Board OF Directors may also Select such Otner
officers as the business OF the corporation may
require. The same person may mold two or
more of said Offices combined II deemed neces-
sary.
VIII. The period for Which this corporation
may exist and have succession is fifty years.
II. The first meeting of the stockholders
for organization unter this charter shall be
held at the Office OF h. +. Rrister u Company,
Merchants. Of Bogue Chitto. Lincoln County,
Mississippi, OH the 3Oth day of April. 1904. or as
SION thereafter as 20 sib e, and further notice
of said meeting is waived. tie public fiod Of this
charter being accepted by the stockholders as
notice of said meeting Bat iffor any reason
the said meeting should not be held as afore-
said then e may be- Do, ca led In the manner a pro-
Mississippi OF 1892
x. This Cha ter shall bein flrce and take eff
feet from aid after its approval by the Gov
sernor.