Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, at the city of Wheeling, this eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEAL. JAMES M. PIPES, Secretary of the State. THE WHEELING STEAMBOAT WORKS AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY. I, James M. Pipes, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of "The Wheeling Steamboat Works and Manufacturing Company," for the purpose of manufacturing and building steamboats, hulls, cabins, joiner work, barges, ploughs, nail kegs, barrels, wagons, carriages, buggies, carts, drays, wheel-barrows, trucks, together with passenger cars, freight cars, gondolas, coal carts for railroads, agricultural implements of all kinds and descriptions, marine and land engines, blast cylinders, stamp mills and mining machinery, rolling mill, saw and grist mill castings, house fronts, stoves, grates, mantles, hollow ware of all kinds, boiler makers, tank and salt pan makers; forge work, and wrought and cast iron work for bridges, copper smiths, brass founders, plumbers, gas and steam fitter's material, and stock and articles composed in whole or in part of wood, iron, steel, brass or copper, made for sale and to order, and general machinist and job workers in iron or wood; which corporation shall keep its principal office or place of business at the city of Wheeling, in the county of Ohio, and state of West Virginia, and is to expire on the first day of April, A. D. 1890. And, for the purpose of forming the said corporation, we have subscribed the sum of eighteen thousand six hundred dollars to the capital thereof, and have paid in on the said subscription the sum of eighteen thousand six hundred dollars, and desire the privilege of increasing the said capital by sales of additional shares, from time to time, to three hundred thousand dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which are held by the undersigned respectively as follows, that is to say: Hans W. Phillips, Wheeling, W. V., 100 shares; And the capital to be hereafter sold is to be divided into shares of like amount. Given under our hands this nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1870. [Signed,] HANS W. PHILLIPS, W. P. WILSON, W. H. DUNLEVY, J. T. CARPENTER, Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, at the city of Wheeling, this twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEAL JAMES M. PIPES, Secretary of the State. THE GRAFTON MUTUAL STORE. I, James M. Pipes, secretary of the state of West Viginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of "The Grafton Mutual Store," for the purpose of carrying on a general merchandise business in the town of Grafton, and for the purpose of acquiring real estate, sufficient for houses and store-rooms for such business, which corporation shall keep its principal office or place of business at Grafton, in the county of Taylor, and is to expire on the nineteenth day of March, 1890; and for the purpose of forming said corporation, we have subscribed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five (125) dollars to the capital thereof, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of twenty-five dollars, and desire the privilege of increas ing the said capital, by sale of additional shares, from time to time, to twenty thousand dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of $25.00 each, which are held by the undersigned, respectively, as follows, that is to say, by James D. Holmes, Grafton, one share; And the capital to be hereafter sold, is to be divided into shares of like amount. Given under our hands this nineteenth day of March, 1870. [Signed.] JAMES D. HOLMES, VIRGIL T. HANDLEY, Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, at the city of Wheeling, this twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEAL. JAMES M. PIPES, Secretary of the State. HEATERS' BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION OF WHEELING. I, James M. Pipes, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of the "Heaters' Beneficial Association of Wheeling," and as such desire authority to make such by-laws for the government of said association as shall be adopted by a majority of the members thereof, to sue and be sued in their corporate name, and desire the privilege of purchasing, leasing and holding personal and real property; said corporation to have its principal office in the city of Wheeling, and to expire on the first day of January, 1890. And, for the purpose of forming the said corporation, we have subscribed the sum of thirty dollars, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of three dollars, and desire the privilege of increasing said capital by sales of additional shares to fifty thousand dollars. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of five dollars each, which is held by the undersigned as follows: William Lewis, one share; David Reese, one share; All of the city of Wheeling, Ohio county, West Virginia; and the capital to be hereafter sold is to be divided into shares of the like amount. Given under our hands this twenty-first day of March, 1870. [Signed,] WILLIAM LEWIS, N. C. CARTEN, JACOB H. FREESE, LOUIS SERIG, MATTHEW FARRELL. Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, at the city of Wheeling, this twenty-second day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEAL JAMES M. PIPES, Secretary of the State. THE BOILERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION No. 2, OF BEN . WOOD. I, James M. Pipes, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day delivered to me; which agreement 1s in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of “The Boilers' Benevolent Association, No. 2, of Benwood," for the purpose of benevolence and charity, and as such desire authority to lease, sell, purchase and hold real and personal property, and to make such bylaws for the government of said association as may be adopted by a majority of its members; to sue and be sued in its corporate name; the principal office or place of business to be in Benwood, Marshall county, and is to expire on the first day of January, 1890; and for the purpose of forming said corporation we have subscribed the sum of thirty dollars, and have paid in on said subscription the sum of three dollars, and desire the privilege of increasing said capital by sales of additional shares, from time to time, to twenty-five thousand dollars in all. The capital so subscribed is divided into shares of five dollars each, which are held by the undersigned as follows, that is to say: By H. W. Thompson, Benwood, one share; By David Reese, Benwood, one share; By Thomas Murrin, Benwood, one share. And the capital to be hereafter sold, is to be divided into shares of the like amount. Given under our hands this twenty-fourth day of March, 1870. [Signed.] H. W. THOMPSON,. Wherefore, the corporators named in the said agreement, and who have signed the same, are hereby declared to be, from this date until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety, a corporation by the name and for the purpose set forth in said agreement. Given under my hand and the great seal of the said state, at the city of Wheeling, this twenty-fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy. SEAL. JAMES M. PIPES, Secretary of the State. MARSHALL IRON WORKS. I, James M. Pipes, secretary of the state of West Virginia, hereby certify that an agreement duly acknowledged and accompanied by the proper affidavits, has been this day duly delivered to me; which agreement is in the words and figures following: The undersigned agree to become a corporation by the name of "Marshall Iron Works," for the purpose of manufacturing iron and nails of various kinds, and for sale of the same, and to transact any and all other business necessarily connected therewith, or calculated to facilitate the same. Which corporation shall keep its principal office or place of business at Moundsville, Marshall county, West Virginia, and is to expire on the first day of April, 1890. And for the purpose of forming the said corporation we have subscribed the sum |
