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stock taken by each of the applicants is as follows:- By the said - Benjamin Franklin Comins, Albert Lawrence, and Peter Dorland Sills each the sum of Eighty Dollars. By the said - Gilbert Youker the sum of One hundred and twenty dollars. By the said - William Townsend the sum.of Forty dollars. By the said - James Stalker Hanilton the sum of Thirty-two dollars and By the said George Miller Caldwell the sum.of One hundred dollars, which amounts have been paid in full in cash. And Whereas it has been proved to the satisfaction of Our Lieutenant-Governor in Council that the said applicants have complied with all the requirements of the said Act, as to matters preliminary to the issue of letters patent. Our said Lieutenant-Governor having seen fit to dispense with the publication of a notice of the said application. fage - (3) Now know ye, that, by and.with the advice of our Executive Council of our Province of Ontario, and under the authority of the hereinbefore in part recited Statute, and of any other power or authority in Us vested in this behalf, we do, by these Our Letters Patent constitute that the said Benjamin Franklin Comins, Gilbert Youker, William Townsend, James Stalker Hamilton, George Miller Caldwell, Albert Lawrence and Peter Dorland Sills and each and all such other person or persons as now is, or are, or shall at any time hereafter become a shareholder or shareholders in.the said Company, under the provisions of the said Act, a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, and a Common Seal, by the name of The Zion Cheese Manufacturing Company of Thurlow, (Limited) and capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of an incorporated Company for the purposes and objects aforesaid, as if incorporated by a special Act of the Legislature of Ontario, and, by their corporate name, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in all courts, whether of law or equity , and with the powers in the said Act more particularly set forth. And we direct that the capital stock of the said Company be Two thousand eight hundred dollars and be divided into seven hundred Shares of Four dollars each, and that the said Benjamin.Franklin Comins, Gilbert Youker, William Townsend, James Stalker Hamilton, George Caldwell, Albert Lawrence and Peter Dorland Sills be the first directors of the said Company, And we hereby eXpressly authorize and empower the said Company from.time to time to contract for, purchase, take, hold and enjoy any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, - 25 , Wit hin Our said