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Page 54 - laws for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created. All general laws passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.'
Page 107 - March 18, 1850 and November 15, 1859, under the Common Law of the State of New York. The American Express Company and the Merchants Union Express Company were merged into one Company, named American Express Company by Articles of Merger and Association, dated November 25, 1868 and amendments thereto. Each of the constituent companies was an
Page 108 - of which $475,000 was issued, in the inception, to the American Express Company, the remaining $25,000 being subscribed for at par by directors and others connected with the American Express Company, under an agreement under which the American Express Company had a right to take over their shares at any time, at actual cost.
Page 108 - of the .State of New York. This Company is not a corporation but a voluntary partnership or association of individuals organized under Articles of Agreement between its members. It possesses no rights, privileges or franchises other than such as are enjoyed by any private individual or association of
Page 193 - The American Railway Express Company is not a consolidation, but was organized to take over the express transportation business upon the railroads and systems of transportation under Federal control as the sole agent of the government in conducting said business.
Page 107 - no issue of securities has contingent voting rights or special privileges in the election of directors. The Directors hold quarterly meetings on the second Wednesday of February, May, August and November of each year and other meetings are held as found necessary by the
Page 137 - is not a consolidation, but was organized to take over the express transportation business upon the railroads and systems of transportation under Federal control as the sole agent of the government in conducting said business.
Page 32 - sufficiently answered unto, confessed or avoided, traversed or denied, is true to the knowledge or belief of this defendant. All of which matters and things this defendant is ready to aver, maintain and prove as this Honorable
Page 108 - the formation of this Company, the American Express Company has, in one or two instances, upon the death of the individual stockholders, acquired their stock at cost under the option above mentioned. All the property which the Company received upon its organization, it received
Page 70 - George S. Hobbs; Clerk of Corporation and General Solicitor, Charles H. Blatchford; Treasurer, Louis M. Patterson; Comptroller, Albert J. Raynes: Chief Engineer, Bertrand T. Wheeler; Superintendent of Motive Power, Philip M. Hammett; Superintendent of Transportation, Fred 0. Wood,

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