Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-05-23
THE CHARTER or INCORPORATION
OF
THE MACON CREAMERY COMPANY

ARTICLE ONE. r. v. Yatea, Gus Mcleod, E. B,
Owen. L. F. HolberR. r. B. Boyd. I. 7. Smith. c,
r. Dorroh. Henry A.. Minor. Jr. Ed NJ Murphey,
". Scales. A. Klaus. W. B. Patty. W. N. Lsnber'
son. E. N. Murphey. Henry N. Jones, D. C. Ferril
and others associated with them. their a-signl
and successors in Office are hereby created q body
polite and corporate under the corporate name
and style Of The Macon Creamery COMPANY hav'
ing their domleIle at Macon. Mississippi.
ARTICLE Two. The purpose for which this
Company Ia organized IL the doing Of q erea merry,
dairy, canning. and Ice business, and II shall have
succession for a period of fifty years. may SUE
and be sued. plead. and be implicated before any
court. may contract and be contracted WITH
may have q corporated seal. and alter some at
will. and may do and perform all acts Of bodies
polite and corporate.
ARTICLE THREE. The capital stock OF this
Company shall be Ten Thousand @10.0O0.0O Dol
lars. divided into shares Of Twenty-Five Dollars
each. and whenever the sum Of S2OOO.00 has been
subscribed and paid in the Company IL authorized
to begin business. The capital stock may he in
creased or diminished at any time. by a majority
vote or the stockholders.
ARTICLE Four. Said Corporation shall have the
powea TO engage in the business Of buying and
selling. milk, butter. cows. hogs. poultry. fruit,
vegetables, ice, and all creamery and dairy mach
inery and all products Of milk and butter.
ARTICLE FIVE. The said Company shall have
the power to engage In the business Of manufac-
turing butter. cheese. Ice. and all milk products,
and the power to can fruits and vegetables and to
sell same.
ARTICLE Six. This Corporation shall have the
right to buy all materials and machinery and
property Of whatsoever character may be deemed
necessary to carry out the purpose Of the said Cor
p%oration aa before expressed and to sell all prod
ucts manufactured or belonging to said Corpora
ton. the said Corporation may buy. own and sell
at pleasure any real estate and personal property
that may be incident to or grow out Of or be nee
essary TO the successful erection and operation Of
any or all Of the plants or industries herein pro-
vided for. Said Corporation may also buy, own
and sell real and personal property in the collec-
ton Of debts that may be due said Corporation or
for the payment OF debts or for the purpose Of
converting said property into money. but said real
estate and personal property last mentioned shall
be disposed Of within five years and shall not be
used by this Corporation for any Of the purposes
prohibited by Chapter l6l Of the Laws of 1912.
ARTICLE SEVEN. Said Corporation shall have
the right to lease real estate for the purpose OF
carrying on a dairy business, said lease not to be
for a longer period than twenty years.
ARTICLE EIGHT. Said Corporation shall have the
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necessary to be employed for the successful opera
ion Of any or all Of its plants.
ARTICLE NINE. In addition to the powers above
sranted said Corporation shall have all Of the
lower granted such Corporations and the rights
hat may be exercised by such Corporations con-
erred by Chapter "a Of the Code Of 1906 Of Missis-
ippi and all amendments thereto.
ARTICLE TEN. The business Of this Corpora
ion shall be managed by IA Board Of Directors to
G chosen by the stockholders. Said Corporation
hall make such bylaws and regulations as are or
nay become necessary for the control and manage
nent of said Corporation. provided said rules and
equations are compatible with the laws Of the
State Of Mississippi and the United States.
ARTICLE ELEVEN. The stock of said Company
oii"h DS GpuikuuDiG OiitE VII ttC u tnc bhlu
Company, and suitable books for the record Of
same shall be kept. and dividends shall be paid to
the person in whose name the stock shall stand at
the time the said dividends shall be declared.
L. v. YATES. A. KLAUS
HENRY A. MINOR Jr. ED. M. MURPHEY
f.. Is. BOYD E. B. OWENS
A. C. FAINT C. l.. FERRIS
A. D. BINlON W. M. LAMBERSON
1T. SMITH HENRY M. JONES
N. SCALES GUS MCLEOD
WALTER b PATTY J,R. EVANS
L.. +. HOLBERG +. M. MURpHEY
C. b, DORROH d. C. FERRIS.
ACKNOW EDGMENT.
State Of Mississippi. County of Noxubee.
Personally appeared before II. A. Minor. Jr.. a
Notary Public of Noxubee county. Mississippi.
\. V. Yates, Henry A. Minor. Jr.. Z. b. Boyd. A.
FAINT. A. D. Binion. |. r.. Smith. N. Scales, A.
Klaus, Ed. M. Murphey. f. b. Owens, c. l.. Fer
rs, W. M. Henderson. Henry M. Jones. Gus
W. b. Patty. J. r. Evans. l.. F. Holberg,
Il. M. Murphey, c. b. Dorroh. d. c.. Ferris, lncor-
~porators of the Incorporation known as the Macon
Creamery Company. who acknowledged that they
signed and executed the above and foregoing acts
of incorporation as their act and deed on this the
18th day of May. 1918. II. A. MINOR. Jr,
Notary Public.
The following named are also incorporators. but
as 1t was necessary to procure their acknowledge
ments on Thursday, May 10Th. 80 as to be printed
in this weeks issue of the Beacon, and as the
Notary could not see them in time their names
were omitted from the Charter: Thos. McHenry.
J, l.. ormsby, II. B. Gurler, N. A. VIM. J. C.
Morgan. j. b. Elkin. Gus Minor. f.. +. Dantzler,
George Richardson. H. Il, Dare. l.. l.. Cole, S. M.
Cockrell. J. F. Ames. d. W. Dent. M. r. Love,
d. Cavett, J. C. Cavett, w. T. Conner, T. W.
Brame, s. w. Harkins, II. T. Walker, w. f.