Macon beacon., 1905-09-16
CHARTER OF INCORPORATION OF
ZERO ICE AND COAL COMPA-
NY MACON MISS.

Article |. II. l.. j. Barnes and such others as
may be associated with him, their SUCCESSORS
and assigns, are hereby created a body polite
and corporate under the corporate name and
style of Zero lee and Coal Company, with all tho
rights. powers, privileges and liabilities Incl
dent thereto, and conferred or imposed upon
such body by Chapter 25, Annotated Code of
1892 State of Mississippi, and the amendments
thereof. with right of succession for porlod OF
fifty (50) years, from the date OF the approval
Of this Charter, and with domicil and principal
place of business at Macon, in said State of Mis-
sisspp, and ofces and plants at such other
places as may be necessary for the proper con-
duct OF Its business.
Article IL. The object and purposes for witch
this corporation is organized are to manufac-
ture, buy and sell ice, to construct, own, operate
or control rcfrIgorating and cold storage plant;
to buy and sell coal, coke, wood or any other
fuel, and TO do general wholesale and retail
business in such aric cles; to manufacture, bottle
and sell soda water or any other carbonated
| non -alcoholicsdrnk or beverage and to manufac-
turc, buy, sell or deal in bottlers or soda water
supplies at wholesale or retail. And to that end
| it may buy. own, lease and hold all or any real
and personal property necessary and proper for
the conduct of its business not in excess of the
| limit fixed by Section s3s of the Annotated Code
| of Mississippi for 1892.
Article ILL., Said corporation may sue and be
| sued, contract and be centralized with within its
corporate powers;may have and use corporate
| seal may borrow money, execute evidences of
debt and secure the payment of the same by
trust deed, mortgage, or otherwise not inconsis-
tent with the laws of the land; may issue bonds
and secure their payment in any legal manner
Article " The capital stock Of said company
shall be Twenty thousand t20V0j dollars, divided
into shares of one hundred sl00 dollars each but
said Company may commence business as soon
as seven thousand five hundred (S750o00 dollars
Of said stock has been subscribed and fully paid
up.
Article V. The affairs OF said Company shall
| be managed bv Board Of these Directors, to-
| gether with the officers of said Company, who
| shall be ex-onlcio directors All directors shall
be chosen from among the stockholders, and
| shall serve for one year and until their success
sors are elected and qualified. Provision may
| be made in the bylaws for the removal OF any
| cause,
| Article VI The officers of said Company
shall be president, a secretary treasurer and
a manager but the Offices OF treasurer and man
ager may be filed by the same person, IL the di
rectors shall see nt. The duties of such officers
shall be prescribed by the bylaws.
Article VII. When this Charter shall have
| been approved by the Governor, and duly re-
corded and certified by the Secretary of State,
the subscribers for the stock of said company
may meet at time and place in the City of Ma
con- previously named in notice to all such
subscribers, organize the company by elccting
three directors from among such interpretations,
who shall Immediately elect the officers named
in the proceeding section,
Article VIII. When thus organized the Board
of Directors may proct ed at once to sell and dis
pose Of the stock Of said company, receive pay
| therefor In money. or any other thing OF value
, and may do any and all other things necessary or
proper to conduct the business Of said company,
| Article TX, At all stockholders meetings Of
said company, all voting shall be by stock, one
| vote to each share represented.