Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-05-24
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
of the Bohemian Savings Bank, Of
Protivin, Iowa.

of Iowa, and adopt the following Articles OF
incorporation for the government of such
Association.
ARTICLEI.
| Name and Place of Business.
The name of the corporation shall be
bohemian Savings Bank, and its place of
business shall be in the city of Protivin, coun.
ty of Howard and state of Iowa,
ARTICLEI ii.
Business.
The general nature of the business to be
transacted by this corporation shall be that
of a savings bank, conducted under the pro-
visions of Chapter 10 and II OF Title TX of the
Code of Iowa and acts of the legislature
amendatory thereof: and this corporation
hereby assumes and takes to itself all and
| singular the powers conferred upon savings
| banks by the laws of Iowa, and accepts all
the duties and obligations imposed thereby.
ARTICLE III.
Capital stock.
The captal stock of this corporation shall
be Fifteen Thousand Dollars (Sl5,0OO) and
shall be divided into shares of One Hundred
Dollars tslOo0O) each. and shall be fully paid
before the corporation begins the transaction
| Of its business.
ARTICLEIV.
Duration.
The existence of this corporation shall be-
gin ON the date the Secretary of State issues
his certificate of incorporation. and shall
continue fifty years thereafter: and the cor
poration may commence the transaction of
business when certificate of the Auditor of
State shall have been issued authorizing 1t to
do so. Its corpol ate existence may be termi-
mated at any time by a three fourths vote of
the stockholders at any regular or special
meeting called for that urpose, in confor m
ify with the articles of Incorporation and in
accordance with the provisions ofthe statute.
ARTICLE v.
Board of Directors and Officers.
Section l. The affairs of this corporation
shall be conducted and managed by a board
of nine directors, who shall be elected from
the shareholders at the annual meeting of
the corporation, and shall hold Office for the
term OF one year, and until their Successors
care elected and qualified and have accepted
office.
Sec. 3 ANY vacancy in the board of direc-
tors shall be filled by the remaining men,
bers of the board, aud the persons SO appoint
ed shall hold office until the next annual
meeting of the stockholders.
Sec. 3. The board of directors shall elect a
president and vice-president from its men,
bers, and shall also elect a cashier from the
stockholders, who may or may not be men,
Der of the board of directors, and who shall
also act AS secretary of the corporation. 1t
may also elect and employ such other offic-
ers and clerks as may be necessary to the
transaction of its business and shall fix the
compensation of all officers and employees.
ARTICLE vi.
Annual and Special Meetings of the Stock
holders.
Section l. The annual meeting of the
stockholders shall be held at the office of the
corporation on the second Thursday in Janu-
airy of each year, beginning with the year
1911, at which time the stockholders shall
elect a board of directors and transact such
other business as may lawfully come before
them.
Section 9. Special meetings of the stock
holders may be called by the president vice
president. or by a majority of the members
Of the board Of directors, or by the holder or
holders of n majority OF the stock OF the cor
poration. Ten QO) days notice of the time
and place OF such meeting shall be given by
the cashier, or the person or persons calling
such special meeting, by mailing notice in
writing to each stockholder, directed to his
address as shown upon the books of the cor
poration. which notice shall state the object
of the meeting. and no business other than
that named in the notice shall be transacted
at such special meeting, unless all of the
stock OF the corporation shall be represented,
and no objection shall be made by any
stakeholder to the transaction of business
other than that named in the notice.
Section 3. The voting at all stockholders
meetings shall be by ballot, and each share
ofstock represented by the holder thereof or
by his proxy duly authorized in writing,
shall be entitled to one vote.
ARTICLE VII.
Provisional Directors.
Until the fist annual meeting of the stock
holders the following named persons shall
be the directors of the corporation:
J. F. Pecinovsky. p. .. Address, Calmar,
Iowa, II. ID. No. 2.
II. Lukes, p. o. Address, Protivin, Iowa.
Ferd. Lukes, r. u. Add ess, Prolivin, Iowa.
John Bouska, +. q. Add ess, PIotivin, Iowa.
Rev. X. Lakomy, p. .. Address, Protivin,
Iowa.
FL. Klimesh, 2. o. Address. Protivin, Iowa.
Chas. Pergler, =. y. Addle ss, Cresco, Iowa
Ole Natvig Jr., r. y. Address, Cresco Iowa,
X. u. NOT.
j. Nj. Huber, =. y. Address, Fl. Atkinson,
Iowa, X. ID. NO3.
ARTICLE VIII.
Annual Meeting of Board of Directors.
The annual meeting Of the board of direct
ors shall be held on the Second Thursday in
January, 1911, and Immediately following
the adjournment of the annual meeting of
the stockholders, at which time 1t shall elect
Il president, vice resident and cashier, and
may elect or employ such other officers,
clerks or employees as shall be deemed neces-
sary for the transaction OF the business OF the
Until the first annual meeting
of the board of directors, the following named
persons shall be the officers of the corpora
alton:
President. J. F. Pecinovsky, p. o. Address,
Calmar, Iowa.
Vice-PresIdent, Ole Natvig, p. o. Address,
Cresco, Iowa.
Cashier, Ferd Lukes, p. o. Address, Proti- |
VIM Iowa.
ARTICLE IN.
Execution and Acknowledgment of Written
instruments.
Section 1. All deeds, mortgages and instru- |
ments in writing affecting real estate which |
shall be made by the corporation, shall be |
and acknowledged In the name Of
the corporation by the president or vice pres |
ldent and attested by the cashier. with the |
corporate seal thereto affixed.
Section Releases of mortgages and other |
liens held by the corporation, and satisfac- |
ton thereof, may be made, executed and
by the president, vice-presi-
dent or cashier of the bank.
Section 3. All other written instruments
which may be made by the corporation shall
be executed by such officers or agents rs the