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 284 APPENDIX I throw their possessions, at a fair valuation, into the common stock. That stock was not to be dissolved after the expira- tion of a few years, as had always been provided in A CROWD IN A BUST INDIAN EMPORIUM. former subscriptions. An appraisement of the Com- pany's property was to be made at the end of seven years, and thereafter at the end of every three years, so that any shareholder who wished to retire might do so, and receive the current value of his original sub-