Corporators. Corporate name. CHAPTER 228. An act to incorporate the Wright Lumber Company of Star, North The General Assembly of North arolina do enact : Section 1. That Z. T. Wright, G. H. Wright and James Allen, together with their associates and successors, be and they are hereby created and constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Wright Lumber Company," and by that name shall be entitled to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court in or out of the state of North Carolina; shall have and use a Corporate powers. common seal and alter the same at pleasure; and have all the rights and privileges and subject to all regulations and restrictions now existing and applicable to such corporations under the laws of this state. Corporate pow. ers. Nature of busi ness. Empowered to construct lines of tramway, ete. Maximum rate allowed to be charged. Sec. 2. That said corporation may acquire, buy, sell and hold lands and timber and all kinds of personal property in this state, and may conduct a general lumber business in all of its branches; it may maintain saw-mills, planing mills aud dry-kiln; it may acquire, manufacture, hold and sell all kinds of machinery; it may manufacture, buy and sell sash, doors, blinds and everything of whatever kind that is made from lumber; it may manufacture, buy, sell and dispose of furniture of every description; it may conduct in all of its branches the business of carrying on and operating a flour and grist mills and cotton gins, and to that end may buy, sell and dispose of corn, wheat, oats. barley, rye, flour, meal, cotton and cotton seed, and the products of the same; it may conduct and carry on in all of its branches the general mercantile business. Sec. 3. That the said corporation is hereby authorized to make, construct, equip, maintain and operate lines of tramway, with one or more tracks, and all necessary branches, turnouts, switchings and sidings, using such motive power as may be determined upon by the board of directors from any point on the Aberdeen and Ashboro Railroad, in the counties of Montgomery and Moore, through, along, over and across any portion of the said counties of Montgomery and Moore to any point or points in said counties, and erect such depots, stables, offices, shops and other buildings, structures, fixtures and appliances as are necessary and proper for conducting the business of said tramroads and company, and to demand and receive such sum or sums of money for the carriage of passengers and freight as the directors may think proper, not to exceed five cents per mile for passengers, and not exceeding one cent per mile for each one hundred pounds of freight by the tram-car load, and for parcels such compensa tion as may be reasonable. land. Sec. 4. That whenever any land may be required for the pur- May condemn poses of constructing, equipping, maintaining and operating the said line or lines of tramway, or for constructing, maintaining. equipping and operating all necessary branches, switches, turnouts and sidings and the erection and maintaining of the neces sary stables, depots, offices, shops and other buildings, structures, fixtures and appliances. proper for conducting the business of the said tramways by said company, it shall have the power to have the same assessed and condemned for its purposes in the Land, assessment manner prescribed in The Code of North Carolina, chapter fortynine (49) of volume one, section one thousand nine hundred and forty-three (1.943,) and the sections following. of. May lease or sell road, etc. Sec 5. That the said company shall have the right to lease or sell its road and franchises or any part thereof to any person or corporation and may acquire the property and franchises of or an interest in any other corporation by purchase, lease, subscription to or purchase of its capital stock or otherwise. Sec. 6. That the capital stock of the company shall be ten Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into one hundred shares of one hun dred dollars each, and may from time to time be increased to any amount not exceeding forty thousand dollars, whenever a ma jority of the stockholders in value shall determine. Sec. 7. That the said company shall have power to contract May contract debts and borrow money for the legitimate purposes of the cor- debts, etc. poration, and to make and issue notes, and shall have power to issue bonds and other evidences of debt and indebtedness for any obligations incurred in the conduct of its business, and shall have power to execute a mortgage or mortgages, as deeds of trust upon or conveying its property, franchise and income to secure the payment of any indebtedness of said company as it may deem expedient. ration. Sec. 8 That the officers of said corporation shall consist of a Officers of corpopresident, secretary and treasurer, whose duties shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said company, and to be elected at their first meeting, and that the president, secretary and treasurer shall constitute the board of directors of said corporation; and that upon the election of said officers the said company shall be deemed to be fully organized, and may obtain subscriptions, issue stocks, bonds and other evidences of indebtedness. and begin the operations of such manufacturing establishments. mills, gins and tramroads and tramways as they or it may have already erected, and may enter into contracts for the construction and may construct tramroads [and] buildings and purchase any articles connected with the business herein mentioned, and Principal office. Persons obstructing, removing or defacing property guilty of misdemeanor. Individual liability. do any and all other lawful things necessary to carry out the purposes of the company. Sec. 9. That the principal office of said company shall be kept at Star, Montgomery county, North Carolina. and it may establish branch offices at such points in this state as it may deem necessary, and this corporation shall continue for a period of thirty years, subject to the general laws regulating corporations. Sec. 10. That any person or persons who shall unlawfully and wil'fully remove, obstruct, injure, deface or destroy any part of the property of said company shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court. Sec. 11. That the stockholders of said company shall not be individually liable for any of its debts or engagements Sec. 12. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Ratified the 6th day of March A. D. 1899. Corporators. CHAPTER 229. An act to incorporate the Methodist Orphanage. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That Rev. J. W. Jenkins, Rev. J. N. Cole, Rev. E. C. Glenn, Joseph G. Brown, J. S. Wynne, E. J. Parish, L. B. Bynum, R. T. Gray, T. N. Ivey, H. C. Wall. W. E. Stringer, W. R Allen, F. A. Woodward. Uriah Vaughan and H. L. Smith, and their associates and successors be and they are hereby declared and Body corporate. constituted a body politic and corporate under the name and Corporate name. style of the "Trustees of the Methodist Orphanage,” and as such Perpetual succes- shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, which they may alter at pleasure, and shall be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of the state. sion. Corporate powers. Misnomer of cor- Sec. 2. That said corporation shall have power to lease, purchase, take and receive by gift or devise, and hold in fee simple or lesser estate or estates all manner of lands, tenements, rents, annuities and other hereditaments, and shall further be capable in law to take, receive and possess all moneys, stocks, bonds, books, goods and chattels which may have been or may hereafter be given to it or to any person or persons for it, by deed, devise, bequest or othewise. A misnomer of the corporation in any deed, will or other conveyance shall not have the effect to invalidate the conveyance if the corporation shall be therein described with sufficient certainty to identify it or if the intent of the grantor or testator to make the said corporation the beneficiary shall suffi ciently appear on the face of the instrument or otherwise. and regulations. Sec. 3. That said corporation shall be capable in law to bar- Empowered to gain, sell and convey any and all lands, tenements, hereditaments bargain, sell, etc. and personal property held and owned by the corporation when the grant, devise or other conveyance does not otherwise provide. Sec. 4. That said corporation shall have power to make and es. By-laws, rules tablish such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government and conduct of the orphanage, home, asylum or retreat or other institution or department established by it and under its control as to said trustees may seem proper and necessary and as are not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state and of the United States: Provided, the said corporation shall be under the jurisdiction, control and direction of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Shall be under control of North Carolina Confer ence of M. E Charch, South. Term of office of trustees. Sec. 5. That of the trustees named in the first section hereof (seven) shall hold office until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and two, and eight until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four (the holders of said terms to be decided by agreement or lot at the first meeting of the said trustees), after which dates they may be succeeded by themselves or such other persons as may be elected by the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at its session held in the years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, for terms of office of three and five years respectively, and thereafter by the said North Carolina Conference at its regular session next preceding the expiration of the terms of office of the said trustees, for such terms of office as they may originally have been elected to. The number of trustees may be increased by the said Number of North Carolina Conference to any number not exceeding the increased. trustees may be number of presiding elders' districts within its bounds: Provided, Proviso. that in the case of increase in the number of the board of trustees by the said North Carolina Conference, the additional mem Term of office of bers shall be elected for terms of office of five years each, excepting every third added member, who shall be elected for a term of office of three years, and such additional members shall be reelected or their successors elected thereafter at its regular annual session next preceding the expiration of the terms of office of said additional trustees, for such terms of office as they may have originally been elected to. A majority of said trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Whenever a vacancy shall occur by death, resignation or removal of a trustee, his successor shall be elected at the annual session of the said conference next thereafter held; and upon the failure of the conference to elect such successor at such time the remaining trus additional trus Election of president and secretary. tees shall have power to fill the vacancy, but such new trustee shall hold only for the remainder of the term of his predecessor. Sec. 6. That the said trustees shall elect one of their own number president, and out of their number a secretary and treasurer. but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the trustees from separating the office of secretary and treasurer. Election of super- They may also elect a superintendent for the institution and intendent. such subordinate officers and employ such teachers, curators and servants as they may deem necessary for the successful operation of the institution. They shall also fix the salary of each officer, but the superintendent, by and with the consent of the trustees, may employ and fix the compensation of such servants as may be necessary. Compensation. Location of orphanage. Sec. 7. That the said trustees may establish at or near the city of Raleigh, in the county of Wake, or at any other place within the bounds of the North Carolina Methodist Episcopal Church, South, an orphanage or home for the care, control, education, maintenance and support of such orphan children, indigent or otherwise, as said trustees may desire to provide for, which chil dren shall be received only upon compliance with such rules as the trustees may prescribe for their reception. Said trustees may make by-laws for the government of the home and for the preservation of good morals therein, and may discharge any child so received in the orphanage or home whenever in their opinion the good of the institution so requires, and any child or children when so received shall be under the care and control of the trustees, and any person who shall take or remove from the orphanage or home and [any] child or children without the consent of the trustees, guilty of trustees, or who shall aid [or] abet in such removal shall be guilty Persons removing children from orphanage without consent of misdemeanor. May place children in homes. of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. Said trustees shall also have the power to require any person or persons placing any minor child in said institution, as a condition of its admission, to surrender all right as parent, guardian or custodian of such child to the person of such child, and any document or writing signed for such purpose shall be effectual to for any right or claim at law or in equity of such parent, guardian or custodian the [to] the person of such child until his or her arrival at the age at which, under the laws of this state, he or she [is] freed from the control of parent or guardian. The said corporation shall also have power to place any child committed to its care in a good home and under the care and tutelage of suitable persons under such general rules and regulations and contract as the trustees may from time to time establish so as they may agree upon in any particular case and in case any child shall be ill treated in any respect, physically, morally or otherwise, the trustees shall have power to |