Financial Corporations-Corporations may be formed for any one of the following purposes: 1. Carrying on the business of banking, by receiving deposits, buying, selling, and discounting notes, bills, and other evidences of debt, domestic or foreign, dealing in gold and silver bullion and foreign coins, issuing circulating notes, and loaning money upon real estate or personal security; 2. Establishing and conducting clearing houses, for effecting in one place, the speedy and systematic daily exchange and adjustment of balances between banks and bankers in any municipality, town or county, establishing and enforcing uniform methods of conducting the banking business in such locality, and adjusting disputes or misunderstandings between members of such clearing house engaged in the banking business; 3. Creating and conducting savings banks for the reception, on deposit of money offered for that purpose, the investment thereof, and the declaring, crediting, and paying of dividends thereon as authorized and provided by law; 4. Transacting business as a trust company in conformity with the laws relating thereto; and 5. Carrying on, in accordance with law, the business of building, loan, and savings associations. (G. S. 1923, 7441). How Organized-Certificate-Any three or more persons may form a corporation for any of the purposes specified in this subdivision by complying with the conditions hereinafter prescribed. They shall subscribe and acknowledge a certificate specifying: 1. The name, the general nature of its business, and the principal place of transacting the same. Such name shall distinguish it from all other corporations, domestic or foreign, authorized to do business in this state, and shall contain the word "company," "corporation," "bank," "association," or "incorporated." In the case of a state bank the name shall contain the words "state bank." (Chapter 111, S. L. '19.) 2. The period of its duration, if limited. 3. The names and places of residence of the incorporators. 4. In what board its management shall be vested, the date of the annual meeting at which it shall be elected, and the names and addresses of those composing the board until the first election, a majority of whom, in the case of savings banks and building and loan associations, shall always be residents of the state. 5. The amount of capital stock, if any, how the same is to be paid in, the number of shares into which it is to be divided, and the par value of each share; and, if there is to be more than one class, a description and the terms of issue of each, and the method of voting thereon. 6. The highest amount of indebtedness or liability to which the corporation shall at any time be subject. It may also contain any other lawful provision defining and regulating the powers or business of the corporation, its officers, directors, trustees, members, and stockholders. (G. S. 1923, 7443). |