Charter Amendment of 1927

Amendment to the Charter of Southwestern October 4, 1927

We, the undersigned, comprising the Board of Directors of SOUTHWESTERN, incorporated under C142, Acts of Tennessee of 1875, whose charter was amended March 25, 1924, pursuant to Chapter 98, Acts of Tennessee of 1923, apply to the State of Tennessee, by virtue of the general laws of the land, for a further amendment to said Charter of Incorporation for the purpose of investing said corporation with powers as follows:

So as to authorize and empower said corporation to select as presiding officer of the Board of Directors any member of the Board of Directors, whether said member is the President of the institution or not, and that the President of the institution shall be ex officio a member of the Board, but shall not be ex officio the presiding officer of the Board of Directors as provided in Section 4 of Chapter 98 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1923.

And the charter of said corporation is hereby so amended.
Witness our hands, this 4th day of October, 1927
(Signed)

James I. Vance
Geo. G. Tayloe   
E.B. LeMaster      
Fred R. Graves
J.D. Duncan
D.K. Brown
Jerome T. Fuller
J. V. Arnold
B.A. Patch
S. M. Nickey
Moore Moore
W. McF. Alexander
Grayson L. Tucker
Dunbar H. Ogden
A.B. Curry

Filed for registration and recorded in Record Book No. 35, page 79, at Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, November 28, 1927.

Filed and recorded by Secretary of State of the State of Tennessee in Corporation Record Book P-19, page 247, November 29, 1927.

Amendments to this information requires approval of the Rhodes Board of Trustees.

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