| From the Selma Morning Reporter |
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| April 6, 1864 |
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| To the Stockholders in the Alabama &
Mississippi Rivers Railroad Co. |
| At a meeting of the Board of
Directors of said Company, at Demopolis, on the 16th inst, the
following resolution was adopted: |
| Resolved, That the Treasurer
be instructed to list for taxation and to pay the Confederate States
tax on all the Stock of this Company, and to give notice to
stockholders by advertisement in the Selma Reporter, that he is
instructed so to do by the Board of Directors, so as to relieve them
from the necessity of listing and paying the same. |
| Resolved, That a dividend of
10 per cent on the par value of the shares held by Stockholders in
this Company, be and the same is hereby declared, out of profits
heretofore made by the Company, payable on and after the 21st instant,
at the office of the Treasurer of the Company in Demopolis; and that
said dividend at whatever time applied for, be payable in Confederate
States Treasury notes of the issue now in circulation at the full
amount promised on their face. |
| Resolved, That all
Stockholders be required to present their certificates on making
application for their dividends; but this requirement is not
applicable to those Stockholders who have given their notes for stock
and have not yet obtained certificates. |
| Resolved, That the annual
meeting of Stockholders be held at Demopolis on Thursday, the 12th day
of May next. |
| The following is the form of a
proxy |
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| State
of I,
_____ of said State and County, do constitute ____ of ____ my legal
proxy to represent and vote on any shares in the Alabama &
Mississippi Rivers Railroad Company at all meetings of Stockholders of
said Company at which I may not be present. |
| Given under my hand and seal,
the ____ day of ____, 1864. |
| Witness |
| No one but a Stockholder is
competent to act as proxy. |
| A. Y. Sharp |
| Sec'ty and Treasurer |