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GREAT SCHEME. •Organization of a Corporation with Twenty-five Million Capital.Do Dorsey, Hadley, and Dwyer want the Earth?KNOW AM, MEN IIY THESE PRESENTS:That we, Stephen W. Dorsey, Ozro A. Hadley, and Joseph W. Dwyer, of the Territory of New Mexico, desire to form a company for the objects and purposes hereinafter set forth, under and by virtue of the laws of the Territory of New Mexico, and do hereby certify and declare as follows: That the corporate name of the company shall be The American Meat Company.That the objects for which the company shall be and is formed are to breed and raise cattle, horses, hogs, sheep, and dVner domestic animals, and to purchase, sell and slaughter the same; to acquire, own, purchase, sell, mortgage, or convey such real or personal property as the purposes of the corporation shall require in any port ot the United States, in the Republic of Mexico or elsewhere, including feeding pens, farms, ranches, lands', rights of way, buildings, slaughter houses, stores, markets, warehouses, refrigerating establishments, refrigerator cars and other cars, steamboats, steamers and ships, and all other and every description of property that may be deemed necessary and convenient; to have power to create debts in the form of notes, drafts, bills of exchange, bonds or other forms of acknowledgment of indebtedness, and to secure such indebtedness, by mortgage upon any portion or on all of the afore described property, and to create such indebtedness at such rates of interest as may be determined upon by the stockholders of the company; and, in general,to conduct a mercantile business in all its details, including the transportation of cattle and meats to any point or points within the territory of the United States, the Republic of Mexico or elsewhere, and for this purpose to operate and conduct a general transportation business.That the amount of the capital stock of the company shall be §25,000,000. That the time of the existence of the company shall commence on the 21st day of July, iSSS, and shall terminate upon the expiration of fifty years. That the number of shares of which the capital stock of the company shall consist shall be 250,000 of the par value of § too each. That the number of .directors who shall manage the concerns of the company for the first three months shall be fifteen, their names and places of residence being as follows:Ormond Hammond, Jr., of Haiti-more; John iff* ldagher, j. O. Moss, Robert J. lngersoil E. C. Converse, J. S. Cox, W. Howard Older, Chas. E. Coon, M. S. Raton, D. M. Ripley, of New York; O. A. Hadley. J. W. Dwyer, D. C. Holcomb, Chas. H. Dana, Sigmund Eindauer, of New Mexico, All of whom are citizens of the United States and of whom at least one-third are residents of the Territory of New Mexico. That the name of the city or town and county in which the principal place of business of the company is to be located in the Territory of New Mexico is the town ofDeming, county of Grant.The company is to have a branch office in the City ol New York and other branch offices at such other places within the United States, the Republic of Mexico and elsewhere as the directors may determine.In witness whereof, we make this statement, and hereunto set our hands and seals this 21st day of July, 1S8S.STEPHEN \V. DORSEY,OZRO A. HADLEY,JOSEPH DWYER.
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Santa Fe Herald
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sat, Jul 28, 1888
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