New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-15
No. 50.
AN ACT

AN AJA
To incorporate the Shreveport Bridge Com
panv, and to authorize the company to
issue It's bonds and to build aroad from
Red river to and across Red CHUTE to the
hills, in Bossier parish, and to collect tolls
thereon, and for other purposes.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State
Of Louisiana in General Assembly con
vened, That Frank VI, Smith. A, II. Leon
ard, (. 2. O'Key, Charles VI. Heating, S.
Peters. George w. Dillard, N. II. Crowell,
NJ. A. Walsh, d. d. Smith, 5. NJ. Thomas,
and their successors and assigns, and such
other persons as they may hereafter assoc
ciate with themselves, be and are hereby
constituted q body corporate and polite, to
act III their corporate capacity as one per
son, and are hereby authorized. i'll their cor
pOrate capacity, to do and perform ali acts
an individual can do, to purchase lease,
sell Or exchange real or personal property,
rights or credits, as an individual can do,
and to sue and be sued, and 20 do all things
an incorporation can do; that service Of
Citation or OTHER legal process shall be
made on the president OF the company or.
in the absence OF the president ON the sec
rotary thereof; that the domicile of this
company is liked in the city Of Shreveport,
in the parish Of Caddo, in the State of
Louisiana. This company shall have a seal,
and may change or alter the same at pleas
ure.
Sec. 9, BE i. further enacted, etc, That
the name and style of this corporation
shall be "The Shreveport Bridge Com
Pany,' and he capital stock Of this COM
E'an5 h1Ssh DC I'VE Eaa0fe0 Thousand dol
lat53 20 4h 0lViae4 1hto SHARES Of one nun
"I!U ""1l%ES S3Gh' AahtlS I'VE thoQSaHo
stockholders Of this company to Tx ene
amount ct the capital stock from rfiua 10
rs "s ~ 1ilclE jio&iile&I lheE may aeem
t., ~ ~ ~ tSs G1s H5IIt.h t3oil
- 10 10 eLi"ctt7"' S'e'1 lha5
~ l,,i - " exclusive
~ ~ Wy s''ts. iltsloss1ih II pIiage
~ 100 w '0A 1iI11'";9 vi tiS
it - 9, oRP29'IS tiS q u
I-4hicIap ~ an l,;na. 20; p',51 ~ passing
ali ls ,,,',a,I5. .,ti.el@- PI"'oee ol
@ 49, IN stll:' Loot passengers;
a., or,S W, 10y "Seo
t'll,s =" "g,iei tIos9 sh"A oe bailC
;J -, IN, - e Ns9y3Hto "I nFS
r 4t ~ 81 l.SA ''i eeil"L l9f t4e pel1o4 Oh
'.'' - lss,,l NJ we iiSh6 10 any
IN If'l ,9h4 ~ ngl0 bridges "ljnln
"a h ,,s, ~ ,,,z'S pr po71F, hu0
- ~ a'o,' w guy u Ihe purposes
- 81 't'.SSGu eAcSpt as belonging TO
III s,esl.''' .5'SinSs5 aAH operating vi the
1 lo"o' a4o VHat Same company shall
10 . SnI Ign ~ Gl!aFge such tolls thereon
% % may may oe hAed 9y me board Of directors
~ ~ s" 11: colA paly, ana shaI nave the right
~ PoAc3 saGh bLi0ge, so that no one or
vnlA3 Sn"H oe aIoW@d to pass over the
9"HI9 except III accordance to the regula-
'i2 GrSo, il@" - w Sae directors.
47. oiSt :: DC u TURNER enacted, etc, That
SI3 "naAS oI the company shall be CON
, HsteSi" D1 BOARD Oh directors, the first
oo"l q u aiTfctofs TO consist OF the incOr-
=, 40 i III II ne HESt s6cloh OF thus
@cS III Tue eFehG OF The death OF any such
i IL :, pol9'or 'n0 balance shall compose
t,,. GU " 4ileoIoIS ohtii the enc vi the
In ato ~ Ino event CT any OF such IN
90 pol4 ~ ea@nSlefllhg ther entire inter.
s s"s - 'i!1o eoipP u"flhS thelr term OF
J ~ ,"e 10y slalI cease 10 act as directors
LUZ tTSIoue i OF the term, and their
soma o+Ian otd iiite4 ~ Ghe selection OF
raotor !l;s fL .e oF the otner d.
49, e., us LIS , uoal0 "a directors snail hold
If I'll 100 his RON inc Efs6 RionoaY
1919 90 T. thereafter the board OF di-
No otooi,i liz "oGl p9n$ shat CONSIST OF
shares of stool ~ Nv a tolu 90 easy twenty
ho11era on 40 f W. NJ o.IIeeo pJ cue STOCK
and eyerv two 80 90 no4 +,o o. JuiS, Iol4'
stockholder shall vote at sr,v s,,ai, 1870 oit"3 no
unless the stock ON which he CLAIMS ~ nt
has been owned nv him AZ Iaos+ ~ 100 h"to
months before the election "a show hrr ~
stock book of the co1onanv. ti,a+ ~ V"p
stakeholder shall have one yata s-l co." eSsoh
share of stock he may own. tLo+ 'eoo 1.
stakeholder NAV vote hV n,.nr1-, Gu f,
directors, and that a maioritT of po+>.Js agt
shall elect that it shall he fbe Tvs ofSo