The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1870-06-18
CHARTER OF
Bridge Co.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF BOSSIER.

DE it remembered that before me,
- Holland Williamson Clarke,
Recorder of this parish and ex-oficio
Notary Public. duly commissioned and
sworn came and appeared in their
own proper persons, William Hol-
eombe Hill, Edward Right Moore,
John Chambers Head. Richard We'll
come Turner, John Randolph Griffin,
William Macon Swami, Thomas Moore
Fort, Benjamin Franklin Fort. Jacob
Adrian Snider, Leonidas Campbell
Has0erry, Green Stewart Raspberry.
Joseph Lawson Biggs, William Henry
Scanland. Edward Kendall Russ.
William Jefferson Mobley, Thomas
Newton Braden, Remic Burrows Tay-
Tor, Robert Tidwell Stinson. who de-
clared and said that by virtue of the
general laws of the State of Louisiana.
ana by virtue of the authority granted
by the act passed by the General AS
sembiy OF this State, at its regular
session i'll A. D. 1870, entitled IAN act
granting to j. G. Head, w. H. Hill,
and others, the privilege of building a
toll bridge across Bodcau lake and
bayou at Bellevue ferry on said lake
and Bayou in the parish of Bossier."
they did form themselves into and con-
stltute Corporation, together with
such other persons as would hereafter
associate themselves with these ap
bearers under a Charter in words and
figures following to- wit:
ARTICLE /. The name and title of
this Corporation shall be "Bodcau
Bridge Company" and its domicil
snail be at Bellevue, in the parish of
Bossier.
ART. 2. The purposes for which
this Corporation is constituted are the
building of toll bridge over Bodcau
lake and bayou at or near Bellevue
ferry the keeping of the same in re-
pair the collecting of tolls on the same
and the making of such small BRIDGES
On the roads leading to said bridge and
the repairing Of said roads as may be
necessary i'll order that the principal
bridge may be easily and conveniently
used, said small bridges and repaired
roads not to be at and for a greater dis
lance than three miles from either ter
minus of said bridge.
ART. B. The president of the
Corporation shall be the person on
whom citation may be served in case
the Corporation be sued.
ART. 4. The capital stock of this
corporation shall not be less than three
thousand dollars nor more than seven
thousand, unless the same be increased
by vote of the majority of the stock.
The number bf shares shall be not less
than one hundred and twenty nor
greater than two hundred and eighty,
unless the capital be increased as
aforesaid, and the amount of each
share of the stock shall be twenty five
dollars.
ART. 5. The shares taken by the
members of the corporation hereto sub
scribing are as follows, to-wit: said
w. H. Hill takes twenty shares, ]. C..
Head twenty shares, r. w. Turner
eight shares, J. r Griffin eight shares,
W. NJ. Swami, eight shares, L. NJ.
Fort four shares, B. f. Fort eight
shares, E. Il Moore sixteen shares, j
A. Snider eight shares, j. L. Biggs
eight shares, w II. Scanland eight
shares. G.. S. Raspberry four shares, E
IL Russ four shares, w. j. Mobley
two shares, t. n. Braden two shares.
K. B. Taylor two shares, r. T. Stin-
son twenty shares, and L. c. Raspberry
twenty shares.
ART. 3. For the total amount of
stock each member of the corporation
takes he shall give his note to the cor
poration payable on demand by such a
per centage as may be called for by
the Board of Directors, and his stock
shall not be transferable until he has
paid in the full amount of his note, or
until every per centage necessary to
complete the work has been paid in.
ART. Z. Every stock holder who
shall fail to pay the per centage called
for for ten days after demand shall
be made upon him, shall forfeit all
sums already paid TO the company and
all his rights as q stock holder therein,
or at the option of the Directors, may
be sued at once for the whole amount
dne on his stock note.
ART. 8. The members of this cor
poration who have given their stock
notes shall meet in person or by proxy,
at the Court House in Bellevue, on the
9th day of June, 1870, and elect out Of
the members five directors for the cor
poration, who shall constitute the
Board Of Directorsfor the Corporation.
ART. 9. In all elections and in all
cases where votes ~are taken for any
purposes whatever each member of the
corporation shall be entitled to as
many votes as he has shares of stock.
ART. 10. The affairs of the corpora
ton shall be managed and controlled
in all matters by the Board of Direc-
tors, unless wherein this charter or the
law dictates otherwise. Any three
members of the Board shall constitute