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144 CALIFORNIA CURED FRUIT ASSOCIATION. 



ous fruits and nuts, and to act as the agent and factor in the handling 

 and disposition of the same for individuals, corporations, associations, 

 and co-partnerships in every manner; to buy, rent, build, purchase, sell, 

 lease, and operate packing-houses, warehouses, and other buildings, and 

 to lease, purchase, and own the lands upon which such buildings are 

 situated; to borrow money and give any and all evidences of debt there- 

 for, and any and all kinds of security therefor to the same purpose and 

 extent as a natural person; to establish and maintain a uniform and 

 correct system of grading fruits and nuts, and in general to do, perform, 

 and take any and all steps and proceedings necessary and proper to 

 fully carry out each and all the provisions of this article according to 

 their true meaning and intent, and to the same purpose and extent as a 

 natural person. 



III. That the place where the principal business of said association 

 is to be transacted is the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, 

 State of California. 



IV. That the term for which said association is to exist is fifty (50) 

 years from and after the date of its incorporation. 



V. That the number of its Directors shall be nine, and that names 

 and residences of those selected for the first year are as follows, to wit: 

 H. G. Bond, Santa Clara; L. F. Graham, San Jose; J. H. Henry, San 

 Jose; F. N. Woods, Westside; A. B. Fletcher, Campbell; H. W. Meek, 

 San Lorenzo; M. Theo. Kearney, Fresno; J. B. DeJarnett, Colusa; 

 Charles Forman, Los Angeles; Thos. Jacobs, Visalia; W. E. Woolsey, 

 Fulton. 



VI. That the amount which each member of said association is to 

 pay upon admission, as membership fee, is the sum of five dollars 

 ($5.00), and that each member signing these articles of association has 

 actually paid in such sum of money, to wit : five dollars ($5.00), and 

 that the interest and rights of each member therein is to be at all times 

 equal. 



In Witness Whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals 

 this day of , 1900. 



BY-LAWS. 



The name of the association shall be The California Cured Fruit 

 Association. 



ARTICLE I. Corporate Powers. — The corporate powers of this 

 Association shall be vested in a board of eleven directors, who shall be 

 members of the Association, holding one certificate of membership on the 



