The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-07
INCORPORATING OF
CHARLES COOPER
SCHOOL
Complete Graft of Bill Presented
to Legislature
LONG LIST OF TRUSTEES
Must Organize In Brief Period After
Measure Has Become
Law.
LONG LIST OF TRUSTEES

The VIII OF the tate CndTles OOoP'
err. founder of the business OF the
Cooper Manufacturing company,
Bennington's largest industry, pro-
vided for the establishment OF tech
meal school To carry out this pro-
vision a bill of incorporation was re-
Gently introduced in the Legislature.
Following is a copy of the act in
troduced by Representative Fred
C. Martin and referred TO the com
mittee on corporations:
An act to incorporate the Charles
Cooper Industrial school.
1t is hereby enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of the State of Yer
mont:
Section /. Ebert II. Putnam, Chas.
C. Kehoe, James 4. Burke, Henry 5.
Bingham, George r. Mathers, James
C. Colgate, DIN Scott, Frededic b.
jennings, Edwin L. Nichols, w. Rus
sell Hyde, Edward l.. Sibley, John
]. Hayes, Luman S Norton, Edward
d. yelling, Lucretius II. Ross, Ell
mer f. Larrabee, John Cronin, Har-
rison /. Norton, Ernest B. Patterson,
Warren E. Putnam, Theodore A. Car
penter, Edward E. Hart, Emmett b.
Daley, John H. Norton, William T..
Barrett. Daniel Hurley, Charles S.
Beach, Henry l.. Stillson, Inland
Fay, Henry d. Fillmore, Joseph Pei
lerln, Alexander c. Lamarre, Alfred
z. Cutler, Joseph L. Gallipo, William
B. Sheldon, William r. Morgan, John
Mccormack, j. Edward Walbridge,
Charles II. Dewey, Charles c. Kim
ball and Hawley c. White, all of Ben
nington. in the county of Bennington
and James Habberly, Charles b..
Vail and Earl A. Smith, formerly OF
Bennington and their associates and
successors, are hereby constituted a
body polite and corporate, by the
name of The Charles Cooper Indus
trial School, an industrial, educauon-
al and charitable institution, to be
located in the village of Remington,
in the county of Bennington, with all
the rights, privileges and powers be-
longing to similar corporations, for
the purpose of founding. erecting, en-
dowing, establishing and maintaining
an industrial school in the arts for
the practical instruction of boys,
youth and young men in some suit
able trade, pursuit or profession in
the arts, and for their general cul-
ture in morality, temperance and
the fundamental principles of the
Christian religion and by that name
may sue and be sued, prosecute, de
fend and be defended, in all courts
and places whatsoever; may have a
common seal and may alter the same
at pleasure.
Sec 3 The first meeting of said
corporation shall be held in the vii
lage of Bennington within sixty days
after the passage of this act, and
may be called by either one of the
first three incorporators above nam
ed, and shall be warned BY notice in
writing, forwarded by mail. to each
of the other incorporators. at his
last known post Office address. not
less than ten nor more than fifteen
days before said meeting. Said
meeting may be called to order by
any one of the above named incor-
porators who are present, and a tenn
porary secretary may be appointed
in the usual way, and thereupon, and
before the permanent organization
shall be begun, the said incorpora-
tors who are present and desire to
participate in the further proceed
ings shall file with the temporary sec
rotary, to be embodied in the per-
manent records of the corporation,
their acceptance of the trust reposed
in them by this act; and no member
of the corporation shall at any time
participate in the administration of
its affairs until he shall have first
filed such written acceptance of his
trust. The incorporators who have
filed their acceptance shall at said
first meeting elect by a separate sec
ret ballot each director and auditor,
and by a two-thirds vote, seven of
their number to be directors, and
three of their number to be auditors
of said corporation.
Sec. 3. The officers of the cor.
poration shall be a president, vice.
president, secretary and treasurer
and shall be appointed by the direc.
tors from their own number.
Sec. 4. The auditors shall, during
their term Of Office, be ineligible to
hold Office in the corporation.
Sec. 5. The directors and officers
Of the corporation shall be chosen an
nually, and shall hold Office until
their successors are chosen and ap
pointed.
Sec. s. The affairs Of the corpora
ton shall be administered by its
board of directors; and the duties Of
the officers Of said corporation shall
be such as usually appertain to such
officers in corporation Of like charac
ter. The clerk shall keep a full rec
ord of AL the doings Of said corpora
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