#BlackColonizer | #ArticlesOfIncorporation September 9, 1903

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Articles of Incorporation The following articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the Territorial secretary: The Blackdom Townsite company with a capital stock of $10,000 which is divided into 50,000 [5,000] shares of $2 each. The incorporators and directors are Francis M. Boyer, Isaac. W. Jones, Daniel G. Keys, Burrel Dickerson, Charles C. Childress, John A. Boyer, Charles Thompson, James Jackson, Charles Clifton, Albert Hubert, George White, Benjamin Harrison, and Joseph Cook. The objects of the company are to establish and operate the town of Blackdom in Chaves County, and to conduct a negro colony in that section. The term of the incorporation is fifty years and the principal place of business will be in the town of Blackdom when it is established. For the present, the offices will be located in Roswell