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ment ; and he acknowledged to me that he had executed the same as his free 

 and voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. 

 Witness my hand and official seal the day and year above set forth. 



[NOTARIAL SEAL.] W. T. JOYNER, 



Notary Public in and for the County of Wake, 



State of North Carolina. 

 My commission expires June 9, 1923. Filed February 9, 1922. 



J. Bryan Grimes, Secretary of State. 



TOBACCO GROWERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT 



WE ORGANIZE A NONPROFIT COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION TO' SELL OUR TOBACCO 



INTELLIGENTLY 



The undersigned propose to organize a nonprofit association, without capital 

 stock, for the purpose of promoting, fostering, and encouraging the business 

 of marketing tobacco cooperatively ; for reducing speculation ; for stabilizing 

 tobacco markets ; for cooperatively and collectively handling the problems of 

 tobacco growers, and for other pertinent purposes. 



WE AGREE WITH EACH OTHER — NO OUTSIDERS' IN THIS CONTRACT 



We, the undersigned, in consideration of the premises and of our mutual 

 undertakings and of the agreement of each and every party hereto, do hereby 

 agree as follows, each for himself and collectively for the express benefit of 

 and as the association to be organized : 



WE AGREE TO BE MEMBERS 



1. We will become members of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association, 

 a nonprofit association without capital stock, to be organized under the laws 

 of the State of North Carolina, if by July 1, 1921, appropriate legislation has 

 been there enacted ; otherwise under the laws of the State of Tennessee. 



ONLY GROWERS OR LANDLORDS WHO HAVE TOBACCO TO SELL CAN BE MEMBERS 



2. The association may include in its membership any tobacco grower or the 

 landlord or tenant or lessor or lessee of land on which tobacco is grown, pro- 

 vided the landlord or lessor receives all or part of the rental in tobacco. 



WILL HATE 2 5 DIRECTORS — THE OFFICE WILL BE AT RALEIGH, N. C. 



3. The affairs of the association shall be controlled by a board of 25 directors, 

 and the office of the association shall be at Raleigh, N. C. 



TWENTY-TWO DIRECTORS ARE TOBACCO GROWERS — THERE WILL BE TWENTY-TWO 



DISTRICTS 



4. (a) The members shall elect 22 directors from among members actually 

 residing and growing tobacco in districts to be fixed equitably and specified 

 by the organization committee on the basis of the tobacco produced by the 

 members actually signed up prior to incorporation. 



Each district shall include approximately the same estimated production 

 covered by the members in any other district, but counties within each district 

 shall be kept intact. 



EACH TYPE OF TOBACCO WILL HAVE ITS OWN SELLING COMMITTEE 



(0) The directors, among other functions shall be organized into selling 

 committees, according to each general type of tobacco. If there are not three 

 directors growing tobacco of each type, the board shall select growers of such 

 types to act with members of the board on the respective selling committees 

 of three. 



Each selling committee shall study the problems of the particular type of 

 tobacco grown by its members and shall act in an advisory capacity to the 

 board of directors of the association on the problems and policies affecting 

 such type. 



