Bolivar County GenWeb
Charter of Incorporation of Merigold
Telephone Company
1.
The corporate title of said company is
Merigold Telephone Company
2.
The names of the
incorporators are: H. B Brooks, post
office Merigold, Miss; Frank Wynne, post office Merigold, Miss.; S. F. Perry,
post office Merigold, Miss.; T. J. Davis, post office Merigold, Miss.
3.
The domicile is at
Merigold, Mississippi.
4.
Amount of capital
stock Five Thousand Dollars.
5.
The par value of
shares is Ten Dollars.
6.
The period of
existence is Fifty Years.
7.
The purpose for which
it is created: To construct and maintain
a telephone exchange at Merigold, Mississippi, to erect and maintain lines of
telephone in connection with the said exchange, maintained in the town of
Merigold, to erect and maintain lines of telephones in the rural districts
hereinafter described in Section 9, to do all things incident to the business
of a telephone company and necessary to maintain said telephone exchange.
The lines which
it is proposed to build and operate are described as follows: On all the streets and highways of the Town
of Merigold and continuing in a westerly direction out what is known as the Six
Mile Lake road to the bridge on said road that crosses Six Mile Lake,
continuing thence south to the residence of J. A. Johnson; beginning at the
south limits of the Town of Merigold continue thence in a southerly direction
along the Jones Bayou Road to the corporate limits of the Town of Cleveland;
beginning at the intersection of the ones Bayou Road and the road leading to
the Wilmot Plantation on Sunflower River, continuing along said Wilmot Road to
Sunflower River, thence across said Sunflower River to the Birch Plantation;
beginning at a point where the Wilmot Road intersected by the road leading to
the Spitler Plantation, continuing out the latter road and thru the property of
the said Spitler and S.F. Perry, thence across Sunflower River to the residence
of John Dixon; beginning at the north corporate limits of the Town of Merigold
and continuing thence to the corporate limits of the Town of Mound Bayou. All of said territory being in the counties
of Bolivar and Sunflower, in the State of Mississippi.
8. The rights and
powers that may be exercised by this corporation are those conferred by the
provisions of Chapter 24, Mississippi Code, 1906. H. B. Brooks, S. F. Perry, Frank Wynne, T. J.
Davis, Incorporators.
State
of Mississippi
County
of Bolivar
This
day personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority, H. B. Brooks,
Frank Wynne, T. J. Davis, and S. F. Perry, incorporators of the corporation
known as the Merigold Telephone Company, who acknowledged that they signed and
executed the above and foregoing articles of incorporation as their act and
deed on this the 22nd day of April, 1914. A. J. Smith
Received
at the office of the Secretary of State this the 20th day of August,
A. D, 1914, together with the sum of $20.00 recording fee and referred to the
Attorney General for his opinion.
Jos. W Power, Secretary of State
Jackson,
Mississippi, August 21, 1914
I
have examined this charter of incorporation and am of the opinion that it is
not violative of the constitution or laws of this state or of the United
States. Ross A Collins, Atty. Genl.
State
of Mississippi, Executive Offices
Jackson
The
within and foregoing charter of incorporation of Merigold Telephone Company is
hereby approved.
In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of the
State of Mississippi to be affixed, this 24th day of August
1914. Karl Brewer
By
the Governor, Jos. W. Power, Secretary of State
Recorded
Aug. 25, 1914
Merigold
Telephone Co.
The
Merigold Telephone Co which was incorporated on the 25th day of Aug
1914, was organized on the 14th day of Sep, 1914 at Merigold in the
county of Bolivar, by the election of J. A. Sample, J. B. Thomas, Frank Wynne,
H. B. Brooks, S. F. Perry;\, G. C. Michie and . S. Borodfsky as directors, who
elected the following officers to serve for the ensuing year to-wit: H. B. Brooks, Presdt; J. B. Thomas, Vice
Pres., Frank Wynne, Secy & S. F. Perry, Treasr. The post office address of the President is
Merigold, Miss. The post office address
of the Secretary is Merigold, Miss.
I, H.
B. Brooks, who was elected President of the Merigold Telephone Co on the 14th
day of Sept. 1914 hereby certify that the foregoing report of the organization
of said company is correct and true.
H. B.
Brooks, President
Frank
Wynne, Secretary.
Filed
Oct 1, 1914.