“STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, &c.

I, Charles P. Bennett, Secretary of State, hereby certify that Charles H. Ilutchins, Charles Crompton, Fiank P. Knowles, George Crompton, Hester A. Knowles, Randolph Crompton, Fannie W. Knowles, Isabel M. Crompton, Mable Knowles Gage, Cora E. Crompton, Eliza E. Ilutchins, Stella S. Crompton, George F. Ilutchins, Georgietta F. Crompton, Homer Gage, Mary K. Crompton, Henry H. Merriam, Albeit D. Wood, John M. Russell, Horace Wyman, Justin A. Ware, Albert A. Gordan, Jr., Charles M. Thayer, William Wattie, Charles A. Pratt, Helen M. Harlow, Maria C. Harlow and George W. Stafford, have filed in the office of the Secretary of State according to law, their agreement to form a corporation under the name of Crompton and Knowles Loom Works, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling looms and other machinery and tools and for the purpose of transacting any business connected therewith or incidental thereto and with the capital stock of three million dollars and have also filed the certificate of the general treasurer that they have paid into the general treasury of the state the fee required by law.”

Reference Data:

At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence, by Rhode Island, 1897, page 74