The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1910-07-21
Articles Of incorporation.

anu hereby ADOPT and sign the follow
ing articles of Incorporation.
ARTICLE FIRST.
Ihe name of this corporation shall
be ssThe Mile Laos County Agricul-
tural Society," The general nature
of its business shall be the exhibiting
annually under the management and
control Of said society, the agricultur-
al, stock, breeding, horticultural,
mining, mechanical, Industrial and
other products and resources of said
Mile Laos and adjoining counties.
The principal place of business of
said corporation shall be the village
OF Princeton, county of Mile Laos
and state of Minnesota.
ARTICLE SECOND.
The time of the commencement of
this corporation shall be the fourth
Monday in July, 1910, and the period
OF its duration shall be thirty (3O)
years.
ARTICLE THIRD.
The names and place of residence
OF said corporators are as follows:
Andrew Bryson, Ira G. Stanley and
Lemuel S. Briggs, of Princeton, Mile
Laos county, Minnesota.
ARTICLE FOURTH.
The names of the first board of
directors of said corporation are
Andrew Bryson, Ira G. Stanley,
Lemuel S. Briggs, Frank Goulding,
George A. Eaton, Swan S. Peterson
and John j. Skahen. And the
government of said corporation and
the management of it's affairs shall be
vested in board of not less than five
| ~ and not more than seven (7)
| directors, from whom shall annually
be chosen the following officers: A
president, vice president, secretary.
and treasurer. Said directors shall
be elected annually hereafter on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in January of each and every year.
And until the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in January, 1911, the
persons above named as the first
board of directors shall act in that
! capacity, and the said Andrew Bry-
son shall be president, the said Frank
Goulding vice president, the said Ira
q. Stanley, secretary, and the said
Lemuel S. Briggs, treasurer of said
corporation. And on the first Tues
day after the first Monday in Janu-
| airy, 1911, and annually thereafter, a
new board of directors shall be elected
| by the members of said corporation,
and from the members said board OF
directors shall elect the officers OF
said corporation to act for the ensu.
ing year; said election of directors
shall take place at said Princeton and
the election of said officers shall take
place as soon thereafter as may be
practical, at time and place to be
then and there designated by the
board of directors so elected.
| ARTICLE FIFTH.
Said corporation shall have no
capital stock, but in lieu thereof shall
have membership of not less than
twenty-five u.s. members, who shall
be admitted to membership upon the
terms and conditions to be prescribed
by the laws of said corporation.
| ARTICLE SIXTH.
The indebtedness of this corpora
ton shall not at any time exceed the
sum of twenty-five hundred (S2, SOY
dollars.
Witness our hands and seals this 9Th
day of July, 1910.
ANDREW BRYsoN (Seal)
IRA G. STANLEY (Seal)
LEMUEL S. BRIGGS (SeaD
In Presence of
E. L. MCMILLAN
| FRANK S. WALKER
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
| COUNTY OF MILE Laos.
On this 9Th day of July, 1910, per.
sonally appeared before me Andrew
Bryson, Ira G. Stanley, and Lemue]
S. Briggs, to me known to be the same
persons who executed the foregoing
Articles of Incorporation, and
acknowledged that they executed the
same as their free acts and deeds and
for the uses and purposes therein ex.
pressed.
| E. L. MCMILLAN,
Notary Pupilc, Mile Laos County,
MINI.
My commission expires April 18th,
1917.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
| DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
l hereby certify that the within in.
strument was filed for record in this
Office on the 18th day of July, A. D.
1910, at 9 o'clock q. NJ, and was duly
recorded in book T3 of Incorpora.