William G Hall to Stephen F Austin, 12-20-1836
Summary: Stock certificate. Texas Rail Road, Navigation and Banking Company
[Columbia, December 20, 1836. See Calendar.]
Stock Certificate
TEXAS RAIL ROAD, NAVIGATION, AND BANKING COMPANY
No. 4 3100 Shares
WHEREAS the Congress of the REPUBLIC OF TEXAS did, on the
sixteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six,
grant to BRANCH T. ARCHER AND JAMES COLLINSWORTH,
and their associates and assigns, a Charter of Incorporation, under the name and style of the"TEXAS RAIL ROAD, NAVIGATION, AND BANKING COMPANY,"
which associates are the persons signing below, and who are
the owners of all the stock of said institution; and who now, for the
purpose of carrying said Charter into effect, certify that S. F. Austin is entitled
to Five thousand one hundred________________________________Shares, out of the FIFTY THOUSAND SHARES
into which the capital Stock of FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS is divided; and that he is further entitled to Three thousand one hundred and twenty five Shares to be created by AN Enlargement of the capital Stock of the Bank, over and aboveFIVE MILLIONS of DOLLARS,
with a proportionate interest in all the privileges granted by said Charter; and he is hereby placed precisely on the same footing as the original parties and associates in-said Incorporated Charter.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE TRANSFERABLE BY SIMPLE
ENDORSEMENT ON THE BACK OF THE SAME, and the holder or
holders shall be entitled to demand and receive the same rights and
privileges as the original holder.
Done in the town of Columbia, this Twentieth day of December one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six
B. T. Archer L.S.
Jas Collinsworth L.S.
J Pinckney Henderson L.S.
Thomas F. McKinney L.S.
S. F. Austin L.S.