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as No, 60 Liber 19, John Ussher. Deputy Registrar”. The remainder of the page has "the crest of the frovinoe of Cmtario" at the top. Now follows the wording of the rest of the Charter by page - (1). "Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kindgom of Great Britian and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc.. etc., etc. To all to whom.these Presents shall come - Greeting: - Whereas by the Revised Statute of the legislature of Our Province of Ontario, entitled "An Act respecting the Incorporation of Joint Stock Companies by Letters Patent," it is provided that the Lieutenant-Governor of Our said Province in Council may by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Our said Province grant a Charter to any number of persons, not less than five, who shall petition therefor, constituting such persons and others Who may become shareholders in the Company thereby created. a bodv corporate and politic, for any purposes or objects to which the legislative authority of the said Legislature extends, except the construction and working of Railways and the business of Insurance. And Uhereas by Petition addressed to Our Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario in Council - Benjamin Franklin Comins, Gilbert Youker, William_Townsend, James Stalker Hamilton, George Miller Caldwell, Albert Lawrence, and Peter Dorland Sills, all of the Township of Thurlow in the County of Hastings and Province of Ontario, Farmers, have prayed that a charter may be granted them, constituting them, and such other persons as are or may become shareholders in the proposed Company, a body corporate and politic for the purposes and objects, that is to say:- To manufacture and sell cheese and butter under the name of "The Zions Cheese Manufacturing Company of Thurlow (Limited); Page - (2) And Whereas it is stated in the said petition that the operations of the said Company are to be carried on in the Village of Phillipston in the said Township of Thurlow - that the chief place of business of the Company is to be at the said Village of Phillipston â€" that the amount of the Capital Stock of the Company is to be Two thousand eight hundred dollars - that the number of shares is to be Seven hundred ? that the amount of each share is to be Four dollars - and that the said Benjamin Franklin Comins, Gilbert Youker, William Townsend, James Stalker Hamilton, George Miller Caldwell, Albert Lawrence, and Peter Dorland Sills are to be the first Directors of the Companyo And whereas it is further stated.by the said letition that the amount of the said _ 24 _