History of the settlement of Muskegon, by Henry H. Holt.

ORGANIZATION AND INCORPORATION.

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PROPERTY LIMIT.
ART. 7. The amount of property, real and personal, held by
this society shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.)
AMENDMENTS.
ART. 8. These articles may be altered or amended at any
meeting of the society by a two-thirds vote of the members present at such meeting. Provided that three weeks' notice of such
meeting shall have been given and said notice shall contain the
proposed amendment.
Signed by Samuel H. Stevens, William Mees, Peter Lansiff,
William W. Owen, Chancy L. Whitney, Max Lange, William
L. Ryan, Hiram Parker, George N. Cobb, Daniel Averill, John
A. Miller, Patrick Dowd.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Muskegon.
On this, seventeenth day of December, A. D. 1887, before me,
Henry H. Holt, of Muskegon, Michigan, a notary public in and
for said county, personally came Samuel H. Stevens, William
Mees, Peter Lansiff, William W. Owen, Chancy L. Whitney,
Max Lange, William L. Ryan, Hiram Parker, George N. Cobb,
Daniel Averill, John A. Miller, and Patrick Dowd, who are to me
known to be the persons they represent themselves to be, and severally acknowledged that they executed the same for the use and
purposes therein mentioned.
HENRY H. HOLT, Notary Public.
The members present then proceeded to the election of officers
for the ensuing year under the articles of association which resulted as follows: President, Henry H. Holt; secretary, Chancy L.
Whitney; treasurer, Samuel H-. Stevens; executive committee,
Hiram E. Parker, George N. Cobb, John A. Miller and William
W. Owen.
On motion of C. L. Whitney the executive committee was
instructed to meet at 2 p. m. on Monday, the I9th inst., to complete
the work of incorporation, to select a vice-president for each town
and city in the county and to complete the arrangements for the
publication of the proposed volume of history and proceedings.