Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1904-06-22
cHARTER or INCORPORATION
OF The
cH1cKAsAW GIN COMPANY.

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Sec. 1. Robert L. Flowsrree. J. s..
W. Hawkins. h. R. Hodges, P. N.
Crawford, j. A. Eddins, n. L. Powell.
and those who may hereafter become
stockholders. their successors and as
signs are hereby created a body polite
and corporate. under the name and
style Of the CHICKAsAW GIN cod
PANY, and as such shall have success
sion for Hfty (5O) years. and said cor
poration ls hereby authorized and made
capable to have and to hold. purchase,
receive and enjoy real estate and per-
sOnal property necessary and proper
for les purposes. and 10 hold, use and
enjoy such real estate, In fee simple, or
otherwise. and the same, or any part
thereof. or the said personal property,
to sell, rent, lease, convey, mortgage
or otherwise cucumber; to issue notes,
bonds, debentures, or other evidences
Of debt, to sue and be sued, to contract
and be contracted with, to plead and
be pleaded with, to use a common seal
and the same to bleak. alter or renew
at pleasure. The domicile of.said cor
poration shall be Okolona, In Chicka-
saw County, Mississippi, but may be
changed from time to time, by q vote
OF the holders Of a majority Of the
stock of said corporations but meetings
Of the directors or stockholders may
be held at any place, within or without
Ia the State Of Mississippi, to be fxed
by a majority Of said directors, or the
holders OF a majority Of the stock, re
spectively, and the meeting OF meet
ings, for the purpose Of organizing
hereunder, and the first meeting Of
stockholders and directors may be held
in the city Of Meridian, in the State OF
Mississippi. Publication Of notice Of
fret meeting Of persons in interest IL
hereby dispensed with.
Sec. 2. The purpose for which said
corporation is created, and. it II
hereby authorized and Empowered tC
rent, lease, construct, own, operats
and maintain such mills, plants, factor
les, or establishments as may be nee
essary, useful, proper and convenieni
for the manufacture Of, to engage il
the manufacture Of, and to buy, and
sell, and deal in, for cash or on credi'
and to hold and store, cotton seed oil
cotton seed cake, cotton seed meal, and
any product or article into which
cotton seed or cotton, or the product o.
products Of either or both may b
Manufactured; to gin and clean cottol
and cotton seed; TO compress and bal
lint cotton into bales, or other shape
by mechanical processes, and for sucl
purposes to rent, lease, construct, own
operate and maintain such ginneries
presses, congresses or other structure
as may be necessary or convenient, AM
to buy, sell aud deal in and store cottol
seed hulls, lint cOtton( baled and unbal
ed). and further to do all acts necessa
ry or convenient, in the Judgment 0
the officers and directors Of said corpo
ration, for the welfare and business Q
said company; and said corporation
shall have, possess, and enjoy all tn
rights, powers and privileges created o
conferred by, or enumerated in, Chapte
25, of the Annotated Code Of 1885,
which are necessary and proper 70
carrying out the purposes Of thi
charter.
Sec. g.. The Capital Stock Of sci
corporation snail be Fifteen Thousan
(16.OOO.OO) Dollars, divided into On
Hundred and Fifty shares Of the Pc
value Of One Hundred 100. OO) Dollars
each.
Sec. A. The management Of sal
business shall be conhded to q Board {
Directors, consisting of euch q numbel
not less than three, as may, from tim
to time, be determined, By a vote {
the holders Of q majority Of the capitt
stock Of said company. The sci
Directors shall be stockholders Of sai
corporation, and shall be elected annU
ally by the stockholders Of said com
pany, and 8 majority Of said Director
shall constitute a quorum forthe tram
action Of business. The said Director
shall elect from their number, q Presl
dent and Vice. President, and shall ale
elect a Secretary and Treasurer an
may elect or appoint such other ofhcerI
agents or employees as they may dee
proper; and said directors shall no.
their offices until their successors g