ct of Columbia a corporation
can take title to real estate, transfer property and do all necessary
things in accordance with its by-laws. We therefore concluded that there
could be no objection to incorporating under such laws. So with the
consent of the other members of the committee, I prepared in my office
the proper certificate of incorporation which, under the requirements of
the Code of the District, are as follows:

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, the undersigned, all of
whom are citizens of the United States and a majority of whom are
residents of the District of Columbia, desiring to associate
ourselves for scientific and educational purposes and for mutual
improvement; and to organize a corporation under sub-chapter three
(3) of the Incorporation Laws of the District of Columbia, as
provided in the Code of Law of the District of Columbia, enacted by
Congress and approved by the President of the United States, do
hereby certify:

FIRST: That the corporate name of this company shall be The
Northern Nut Growers Association, Incorporated.

SECOND: The term for which is it organized is perpetual.

THIRD: The particular business and objects of the society are the
promotion of interest in nut-bearing plants, their products and
their culture, and, in general, to do and to perform every lawful
act and thing necessary or expedient to be done or performed for
the efficient conduct of said business as authorized by the laws of
Congress, and to have and to exercise all the powers conferred by
the laws of the District of Columbia upon corporations under said
sub-chapter three (3) of the Incorporation Laws of the District of
Columbia.

FOURTH: The number of directors of the said corporation for the
first year of its existence shall be five.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto affixed our hands and seals
this 27th day of September A. D. 1923.

Karl W. Greene (Seal)
Albert R. Williams (Seal).
Thomas P. Littlepage (Seal).

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT:

I, Alice B. Watt, a Notary Public in and for the District
aforesaid, do hereby certify that Karl W. Greene (of the District
of Columbia), Albert R. Williams (of the District of Columbia) and
Thomas P. Littlepage (of the St