Amended Articles of Incorporation of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. ARTICLE I. The name of this corporation shall be "THE SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE REVOLUTION IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY." ARTICLE II. The principal office and place of business of the Society shall be in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. ARTICLE III. The objects of the corporation are social and patriotic, to perpetuate among the kindred and descendants of its members the memory of the brave men who perilled their lives and interests in the War of the Revolution to wrest the American Colonies from British dominion. ARTICLE IV. The corporation shall not issue any capital stock and shall not be conducted for any private pecuniary profit. ARTICLE V. The corporation shall continue to exist for the full period of fifty (50) years from this date. ARTICLE VI. The affairs of the corporation shall be managed by a Board of Managers consisting of nine members, together with a PresiIdent (or in his absence the First or Second Vice-President), and a Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be ex officio members of said Board. The officers and managers aforesaid shall be chosen annually at a meeting of the members of the corporation to be held. on the 22d day of February, in each year, at the principal office of the corporation in Lexington, Kentucky. The officers of the corporation for the current year shall be those elected at the regular annual meeting held on February 22, 1911. All officers of the corporation shall hold their respective offices until their successors are chosen. The officers and managers of the corporation shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed in this Charter and in the Constitution and By-Laws of the corporation. ARTICLE VII. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability which the corporation shall at any time incur shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). ARTICLE VIII. Private property of the members shall not be subject to corporate debts. In accordance with the resolution adopted by the members of this corporation at an adjourned meeting thereof held on Friday, March 24, 1911, authorizing and directing the undersigned to execute and acknowledge the foregoing Amended Articles of Incorporation, we, the members of the Board of Managers of said corporation and Society, two-thirds of said Board consenting thereto, do hereby affix our signatures to the foregoing Articles in testimony of the adoption of same by the corporation, this 25th day of March, 1911. OTIS S. TENNEY, SAM'L M. WILSON, Jos. LECOMPTE, C. B. Ross, DESHA BRECKINRIDGE, WILBUR R. SMITH. I, Theo. Lewis, Clerk of the County Court in and for the said County and State, do hereby certify that the foregoing Amended Articles of Incorporation of The Society of Sons of the Revolution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky were produced to me by the parties on the 25th day of March, 1911, and acknowledged by Otis S. Tenney, Desha Breckinridge, Jos. LeCompte, Howard Curry, Jno. T. Shelby, C. B. Ross and Wilbur R. Smith, parties thereto, to be their act and deed; on the 1st day of April, 1911, acknowledged by S. M. Wilson, party thereto, to be his act and deed, and on the same day ordered to record; Wherefore the same and this my certificate have been duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand this 1st day of April, 1911. THEO. LEWIS, Clerk. |