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CHRONOLOGY OF CORPORATE ACTIONS This chapter is a listing, in chronological order, of changes in the corporate organization of Michigan railroad corporations . The dates given in the left column are those of the date of the document or the event. Dates followed by an asterisk are reported by sources as the filing date of the event even if the actual document has not been located. If the document had a different effective date, that date is given after the name ofthe company involved. The column next to the left is the event or action covered in the document. A list of standard terms and abbreviations is shown below. STANDARD TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED A-Char. Amend charter A-Cons. Amend corporate articles of second named to effect consolidation of first named into second named A-Inc. Amend corporate articles of any type of corporation Act Act of Michigan Legislature Agree Agreement Bank. Bankruptcy entered Char. Chartered Con.Res. Concurrent Resolution Cons. Consolidated, merged-first named into Diss. Don. Exch. F.Sale Inc. Jt.Res. Lease O.Inc. Opg.Ag. Partn. Rec. Reinc. Res. S.Inc. Sale T.Inc. Tfr. UD.Inc. x- $ With. second named Coporation dissolved Donated Stock exchanged Sold at foreclosure Incorporated (General Ry. Act) Joint Resolution Lease-first named to second named Incorporated (other than as a railroad company) Operating agreement Partnership agreement Receivership begun Reincorporated (Gen. Ry. Act) Resolution of Legislature Incorporated (Street Ry. Act) Sale of property-first named to second named Incorporated (Train Ry. Act) Transfer of property Incorporated (Union Depot Act) • . . cancelled; ... expired Financial control Withdrew as Michigan corporation 189 In the right column are the names of the companies involved. The names used in this part are not the full legal names but are sufficient to locate the company in Chapter 2 of this work. To the right of the name, in parentheses, is a finding aid for the documentation of the action. A number of early entries are by acts of the state or territorial legislature ; the date given is that of approval by the governor , with the Local Acts volume and page number. If the act was published as a Local Act, that is so shown. Resolutions show the date adopted, with the volume and page number of the resolution. Later entries give the date the document was filed with the Michigan Secretary of State, and now stored at the State Record Center, Lansing. (In Dept. of Commerce boxed records, when the document was found in a folder other than that of the named company , the folder name is shown in brackets after the box number.) A - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 756, with the folio and page in which recorded. B - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 120, with the box number in which found. C - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 102, with the box number in which found. D - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 105, with the box number in which found. E - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 106, with the box number in which found. F - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 107, with the box number in which found. G - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 108, with the box number in which found. H - Department of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 109, with the box number in which found. J - Departmentt of Commerce, Corporation and Securities Lot 110, with the box number in which found. Michigan Department of Transportation, Lansing. K - Current records microfiche. CORPORATE ACTIONS 1825-1839 1825 4/19 Char. La Plaisance Bay Harbor Co. (ferr. Laws, II, 262-264) 1830 7/31 Char. Pontiac & Detroit (ferr. Laws, III, 844-847) 1832 6/29 Char. Detroit & St. Joseph (ferr. Laws, III, 960-966) 1833 4/16 Char. Romeo & Mt. Clemens (ferr. Laws, III, 1028-1033) 4/22 Char. Erie & Kalamazoo (ferr. Laws, III, 1125-1131) 1834 3n Char. Shelby &. Detroit (ferr. Laws, III, 1303-1308) 3n Char. Detroit & Pontiac (ferr. Laws, III, 1287-1293) 3n A-Char. Detroit & St. Joseph (ferr. Laws, III, 1296) 3n A-Char. Erie & Kalamazoo (ferr. Laws, III, 1392-1397) 1835 3/26 A-Char. Detroit & Pontiac (ferr. Laws, III, 1387-1392) 3/26 A-Char. Erie & Kalamazoo (ferr. Laws, III, 1392-1397) 8/22 Char. River Raisin & Grand River (ferr. Laws, IV, 112-122) 8/22 Char. Maumee Branch RR (ferr. Laws, IV, 156-161) 8/24 Char. Macomb & Saginaw (ferr. Laws, IV, 124-134) 8/25 A-Char. Detroit & St. Joseph...

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