In 1931, the local Hayes Brothers and Company Limited was formed to operate motor launches, mercantile businesses, mechanical shops and agricultural activities. Its officers included Wayland H. Hayes, president; Henry Clay Daniels, vice president; Highland G. Hayes, business manager, local and foreign representative; John B. H. Hayes, business agent and accountant; Luther M. Hayes, treasurer and chief, industrial division; James O. Hayes, Jr., assistant chief of industrial division; and Solomon Jesse Oliver Hayes, secretary and salesman.
Four years later, the national legislature authorized J. J. Chesson and Company to operate for ten years across the Po River in Brewerville from Chesson plantation to the Kpor bank, with a maximum charge of six cents. Named as owners were J. J. Chesson, G. A. Curtis and Tabo.
Footnote: Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1931, pp. 36-37; Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1935, p. 43.
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