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A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock They formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron Erie and Ontario but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650...
Huronian
Of or pertaining to certain non fossiliferous rocks on the borders of Lake Huron which are supposed to correspond in time to the latter part of the Archaeligan age...
Huron Iroquous
A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins and including several tribes among which were the Five Nations They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario and the larger part of New York...
Iroquoian
Of pertaining to or designating one of the principal linguistic stocks of the North American Indians The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes of whom the Five Nations or Iroquois proper were the chief extended from the shores of the St Lawrence and of Lakes Huron Ontario and Erie south through eastern Pennsylvania to Maryland that of the southern tribes of whom the Cherokees were chief formed part of Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Tennessee and Kentucky All of the tribes were agricultural and they were noted for large communal houses palisaded towns and ability to organize as well as for skill in war...
Company
Company [fr. compagnia, Ital., which word is still printed on Bank of England notes as 'compa'], a body of persons associated for purposes of busi-ness, sometimes, but not now so frequently as some years ago, styled a Joint Stock Company.A company has its origin either (1) in a charter, as the Bank of England and many insurance companies; or (2) in a special Act of Parliament, with which, as authorizing an undertaking of a public nature such as a railway, the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 16), is necessarily incorporated; or (3) in registration under the Companies Acts, 1862 and subsequent Acts, now consolidated into the (English) Companies Act, 1925 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 23).By s. 13 of the Act of 1925 (1) on the registration of the memorandum of a company the registrar shall certify under his hand that the company is incorporated and, in the case of a limited company, that the company is limited. (2) From the date of incorporation mentioned in the certificat...
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