CHAP. 327.—An ACT to ratify, confirm, and adopt the charter of
the Gray national telautograph company, whicl: was granted
August 6th, 1888, by the circuit court of the city of Richmond.

Approved February 20, 1892.

Whereas on the sixth day of August, eighteen hundred
and eighty-eight, the judge of the circuit court of the city
of Richmond granted a charter incorporating the Gray na-
tional telautograph company, which charter, together with
the certificate of the secretary of the commonwealth as to
the filing and recordation of the same in his office, is in
the words and figures following, to wit:

Charter of the Gray national telautograph company.—
The undersigned persons, who desire to form a joint-stock
company for the conduct of the business hereinafter set
forth, do hereby make, sign, and acknowledge the follow-
ing certificate in writing.

The name of the company is to be the Gray national
telautograph company. The purposes for which it is
formed are as follows:

First. To promote, establish, and maintain the general
business of a telegraph, telephone, and telautograph com-
pany within and throughout this commonwealth and the
other states and territories of the United States and the
districts of Columbia and Alaska, by the means and use
of any electrical or other devices suitable or appropriate
to the same, and particularly by means of what is known
as the “telautograph system,” invented by Professor Eli-
sha Gray, for the electrical transmission of messages or
other communications written out in ordinary script or
otherwise suitably prepared for such transmission, and
the automatic reproduction of the same at the office of
destination, including any extensions or improvements of
the said system hereafter devised for or added thereto, the
said telautograph system and any other telegraphic or
telephonic devices, to be used in conjunction with each
other or separately, as may be found expedient, and any
other methods of electrical intercommunication to be
used if desired.

Second. To build, purchase, rent, or otherwise acquire,
and to maintain and operate such, or any line or lines of
poles and wires, with the necessary fixtures, stations,
terminals, exchanges, or other facilities, including under-
ground wires and submarine cables connected there-
with, within this commonwealth or elsewhere in the Uni-
ted States, as may be suitable for the proper, full and
convenient carrying on of the business of the company, or
eitherof the telegraphic or telautograph systems included
therein, and to take, purchase, or otherwise acquire, and
to hold and thereafter to sell or otherwise dispose of such
real estate not exceeding the amount hereinafter limited
and provided for, as may be found necessary for the es-
tablishment, erection, or maintenance of such lines of
poles or wires, with the necessary fixtures, stations, termi-
nals, exchanges, or other facilities, including underground
wires and submarine cables connected therewith.

Third. To erect, maintain, and operate suitable offices,
works, shops, or other structures within this common-
wealth or elsewhere, for the convenient carrying on of the
said business, and the manufacture, sale, renting, or other
disposition of the necessary machinery, instruments, or
devices appropriate to said telautograph or any other tele-
graphic or telephonic systems, or other systems of electric
inter-communication of thought, and to carry on such
manufacture, sale, renting, or other disposition of the
said machinery, instruments, or devices to such extent as
may be desired. .

Fourth. To take, receive, and acquire by purchase, gift,
assignment, subscription to its capital stock or otherwise,
any inventions or letters-patent of the United States for
inventions appropriate to or included in said telautograph
system or any other inventions suitable to the general
business of the company, and to manufacture. use, and
vend, or license others to manufacture, use and vend such
inventions, in whole or in part, and the machinery and
instruments employed therefor, as fully as may be de-
sired.

Fifth. To take, receive, and enjoy any payments or roy-
alties from any corporation or corporations which may
purchase telautograph or other instruments or machinery
from this company, or to which licenses from this company
may be granted, and, when necessary or convenient, to
receive such payments or royalties in shares of the capital
stock of such corporation or corporations, the company
reserving the right to hold the said shares thus paid to it,
and to collect and receive any dividends accruing thereon,
or to sell or pledge the said shares from time to time as may
be found most expedient in the conduct of its business.

3. The capital stock of the company is not to be less
than five hundred thousand dollars or more than fifteen
million dollars, to be divided into shares of the par value
of one hundred dollars each.

4. The amount of real estate proposed to be held by the
company is not to exceed ten thousand acres in each of the
states and territories of the United States.

5. The principal office of the company is to be kept at
Richmond, Virginia, but the board of directors may estab-
lish branch offices wherever they are necessary and proper
for the use of the company and the conduct of its business.

6. The chief business to be transacted by the company
ie the transmission of messages or thought and its expres-
sion from one point to another by the means of electricity
and electric contrivances and devices.

7. The names and residences of the officers who for the
first year are to manage the affairs of the company are as
follows—viz.: T. M. Logan, Richmond, Virginia, presi-
dent; Charles E. Coon, New York, New York, vice-presi-
dent and director; Charles B. Farwell, Chicago, Illinois,
director; J. M. Thompson, St. Louis, Missouri, director;
George H. Hoadley, New York, New York, director; Joel
F. Freeman, New York, New York, director; Wendell
Goodwin, New York, New York, director; J. B. Pace,
Richmond, Virginia, director; P. B. Plumb, Emporia,
Kansas, director; Eugene Hale, Ellsworth, Maine, direc-
tor; David I. Carson, New York, New York, secretary;
Charles E. Coon, New York, New York, treasurer.

8. Subscription to the capital stock may be payable
either in money or in property of any kind (including in-
ventions patented or unpatented, employing electricity)
or interest therein, and especially including any interest
in and to sundry and all inventions applicable to the
United States of America, consisting of methods and elec-
trical and other devices, used or to be used, in what is known
as the “telautograph” of Professor Elisha Gray, for the
electrical transmission of characters and messages, or
other communications, written out or traced in ordinary
script or otherwise prepared for such transmission, and the
automatic reproduction of other suitable delivery of the
same at the office or point of destination, including any
and all caveats filed at, or hereafter to be filed, in the
United States patent office; all applications for letters
STATE OF New YORK .
City and county of New York, To-wit

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings co
with a certificate filed in the city aforesaid, in the st
New York, do certify that James M. Ormes, T. M. L
and Charles E. Coon, whose names are signed to the w
above, bearing date on the twenty-first day of July, eig
hundred and eighty-eight, have acknowledged the
before me in my city aforesaid.

Given under my hand this twenty-first day of
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) JAMES J. MURPH)
Seal Notary Puk
(Certificate filed in New York county.)

DistTRicT oF COLUMBIA,
City and county of Washington:

I, R. B. Nixon, a notary public in and for the di
and city aforesaid, do hereby certify that C. B. Farw
B. Plumb, and Eugene Hale, whose names are sigr
the writing above, bearing date on the twenty-first «
July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, have ack
edged the same before me in the city aforesaid.

Given under my hand this twenty-fourth day of
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) R. B. Nrxon,
[Seal ] Notary Put
STATE oF NEw York, To-wit:

City and county of New York,

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings ct
with a certificate filed in the city aforesaid, in the st
New York, do certify that Wendell Goodwin, whose
is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the ty
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eigk
acknowledged the same before me in my city afores

Given under my hand this twenty-fifth day of
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

Signed ) JaMEsS J. MuRPH
Seal | Notary Pul
(Certificate filed in New York county.)

State or New YorK,
City and county of New York,

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings c
with a certificate filed in the city aforesaid, in thes
New York, do certify that Joel F. Freeman, whose
is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the t

To-wit:
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, has
acknowledged the same before me in my city aforesaid.
Given under my hand this twenty-sixth day of July
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
(Signed ) James J. Murpny,
[ Seal. Notary Public.
(Certificate filed in New York county.)

STATE OF New YorK,
City and county of New York,

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings county,
with a certificate filed in the city aforesaid, in the state of
New York, do certify that Walter B. Whiting, whose name
is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the twenty-
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, has
acknowledged the same before me in my city aforesaid.

Given under my hand this twenty-sixth day of July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed) JAMES J. MuRPHY,
[Seal. | Notary Public.
(Certificate filed in New York county.)

To-wit:

STATE OF ILLINOIS,

Lake county, BB. :

I, David M. Erskine, junior, a notary public in and for
the county of Lake, and state of Illinois, do hereby cer-
tify that Elisha Gray, whose name is signed to the writing
above, bearing date on the twenty-first day of July,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, has acknowledged the
same before me this twenty-eighth day of July, A. D.
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. .

(Signed ) Davip M. ERskKINE, JR.,
[ Seal. } Notary Public.

StaTE oF NEw YORK,
City and county of New York,

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings county,
with a certificate filed in the city aforesaid, in the state of
New York, do certify that Edward Lauterbach, George 8S.
Scott, and John McAnerney, whose names are signed to
the writing above, bearing date on the twenty-first day of
July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, have acknowl-
edged the same before me in the city aforesaid,

Given under my hand this first day of August, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight.

To-wit:
State oF New York,
City and county of New York,

I, Simeon F. Sullivan, a notary public, appoint
Kings county, with a certificate filed in New York c
do hereby certify that Samuel Thomas and Cal
Brice, whose names are signed to the writing above
ing date on the twenty-first day of July, eighteen hv
and eighty-eight, have acknowledged the same
me in the city aforesaid.

Witness my hand and seal this first day of A
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) S. F. Suirivan,
[Seal.] Notary Public Kings cou
(Certificate filed in New York county. )

Srate or New YORK,
City and county of New York,

I, James J. Murphy, a notary public for Kings c
with a certificate filed in the county aforesaid, in th
of New York, do certify that John H. Inman, whose
is signed to the writing above, bearing date on the ty
firat day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eigk
acknowledged the same before me in the city afores:

Given under my hand this first day of August, eis
hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) JAMES J. MuRPH
[ Seal. | Notary Pul
(Certificate filed in New York county.)

To-wit:

STATE OF VIRGINIA,
City of Richmond,

I, W. W. Gosden, a notary public in and for said
do certify that J. B. Pace, whose name is signed |
writing hereto annexed, bearing date on the twent
day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, per
ly appeared before me in my said city and acknowl
the same.

Given under my hand and official seal this third «
August, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed) W. W. GosDeE!
[ Seal. ] Notary Puk

To-wit:

STATE OF VIRGINIA,
City of Richmond,

I, Philip B. Shield, a notary public in and for th
of Richmond, in the state of Virginia, do certify
James H. Dooley, whose name is signed to the cert:
in writing hereto annexed, bearing date on the tw

To-wit:
first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, has
acknowledged the same before me in my city aforesaid.

Given under my hand this sixth day of August, eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) Pui.ip B. SHIELD,
Notary Public.

In vacation.
Virginia:
In the circuit court of the city of Richmond:

I, B. R. Wellford, junior, judge of said court, in pursu-
ance of section eleven hundred and forty-five, chapter
forty-seven of the code of Virginia, edition of eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, do hereby grant a charter unto
James M. Ormes, T. M. Logan, Charles E. Coon, C. B. Far-
well, P. B. Plumb, Eugene Hale, Wendell Goodwin, Joel
F. Freeman, Walter. B. Whiting, Elisha Gray, Edward
Lauterbach, George S. Scott, John McAnerney, Samuel
Thomas, C. S. Brice, John H. Inman, J. B. Pace, and
James H. Dooley, who have made, signed, and acknowl-
edged according to law, a certificate in writing, having for
its object the formation of a joint-stock company for the
purposes set forth in said certificate. And it is ordered
that they and their associates be, and are hereby, made
and created a body politic and corporate by the name of
the “Gray national telautograph company,” with all the
powers and privileges conferred, and subject to all the
provisions and restrictions imposed by the laws of Vir-
ginia as may be applicable to corporations of this charac-
ter, and it is ordered that the same be recorded.

Given under my hand and seal this sixth day of August,
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

(Signed ) B. R. WELLFORD, JR. [Seal.]

In the clerk’s office of the circuit court of the city of
Richmond, August sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight:

The foregoing certificate and charter of incorporation
of the “Gray national telautograph company,” with the
order of the judge of the court in vacation, granting the
same, was this day received by the clerk of said court and
admitted to record, and is hereby certified to the secretary
of the commonwealth for recordation.
Certified a true copy of the charter of the “Gray national
elautograph company,” filed and recorded in this office.

Witness my hand and official seal this eighteenth day
of August, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

[Seal ] C. PoINDEXTER,
Acting secretary of the commonwealth.

Copy from certified copy.

And whereas, afterwards, to-wit: on the day of
, eighteen hundred and eighty-sight, a subscription
of six million dollars to the stock of said company was
made,and it now being desired that the charter heretofore
granted as aforesaid by the judge of the circuit court of
the city of Richmond shall be ratified and confirmed by
the legislature ; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia,
That the aforesaid charter of the Gray national telauto-
graph company be, and the same is hereby, ratified, ap-
proved and confirmed.

2. All taxes due the state of Virginia by said company
Bhall be paid in lawful money of the United States, and
not in coupons.

3. This act shall be in force from its passage.