Acte d’'Incorporation de la Communauté Icarienne à l'Etat d’Illinois

An Act to incorporate the Icarian Community

Section 1. — Be it inacted by the people of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly that E. Cabet, J. Prudent, J.Witzig, P.J. Favard, A. Thibault and A. Piquenard, and their associates and successors be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the «Icarian Community », and, by that name and style, they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, shall be capable of suing and being sued, defending and being defended, pleading and being pleaded, ans-wering and being answered within all courts and places whatsoever. They may have a common seal and alter or change the same at pleasure, may purchase and hold or convey real and personal estate necessary to promote and fully carry out the objects and interests of said corporation, but for no other purpose.

Section 2.—The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred: thousand dollars with the privilege of increasing the same to five hundred thousand, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each ; but no one individual shall own more than one share. In all elections or questions to be decided by a vote of said company, each share, when owned by an adult male, shall have one vote which must be cast in person.

Section 3.— The business of said company shall be manufacturing, milling, all kinds of mechanical business and agriculture.

Section 4. — The said company shall have six Directors to be elected annually, one of whom shall be President, who shall have the: management of the concerns of said Company, subject to the by-laws to be adopted.

Section 5.— The persons named in the first section of this act shall be commissionners to take subscriptions and organize said company,. and shall be the Directors thereof until Directors shall be elected. The stock of said company shall be assignable, subject however to the regulations of the by-laws relating thereto. re |

Section 6. — The said company may pass such by-laws concerning the government of the property and business of said company and regulating its internal policy, and for other purposes directly connected with the business and management of said company as they

may deem proper, not inconsistent with the Constitution and Laws of this State.

Section 7. — This act shall be deemed and taken as a public act and shall be construed liberally for the benefit of said company, provided that the Legislature shall have power to alter, amend, modify or repeal the same whenever the public good shall require.

This act shall take effect sixty days after its passage. SIDNEY BREESK Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WizziAM Mc. MurPxy

Speaker of the Senate.

Approved February 1° 1851,

AuG. C. FRENCH Governor.

The.copy of the foregoing act, kept in the office of the Icarian Community at Nauvoo, is accompanied by the following certificate :