The Bossier banner., 1894-11-15
Charter Of
Whited & Wheless, Limited.

Ctate of Louisiana, Be it known, that on
y Parish of Caddo. this, the fourth day of
October, A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Ninety
four, before me, Lewis E. Carter, Notary
Public in and for Caddo Parish, Louisiana,
duly commissioned and qualified and in the
presence of the witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and appear
ed the persons whose names are hereuntO sub
scribed; also severally declared that avail. g
themselves of the provisions of Act SO OF Ses-
sion of 1883, approved June 29th, 1888, as we'll
as those of the general laws of the State of
Louisiana, relative to the organization of cor
proations, they have formed and organized,
and by these presents do form and organize
themselves and their associates and successors
into corporation for the object and purpose,
and under the terms and stipGlati0ns hereinaf-
ter set forth, to-wit:
ART1CLEI.
The name and title of this corporation shall be
WHITED & WIRELESS, Limited, and under
said name it shall have and enjoy cuceession
for the period of ninety-nine years from the
date of this charter; may sue and be sued; may
have, hold, purchase, SELL convey, lease, mort
gage and pledge property, real and personal;
may have and use corporate seal and same to
change at will, and generally, may have and
possess any and all powers and privileges
which corporations are, or may be authorized
to possess by law, and particularly to carry out
the purposes of this corporation; and its domi-
Louisiana.
ARTICLE II.
The object and purposes of this corporation
are declared to be to buy and sell timber lands,
| to manufacture, buy and sell lumber and to
| build and operate saw and planning mill plants,
| railroad, telegraph and telephone lines. and to
conduct u general mercantile business.
ARTICLE III.
| Citations and all legal processes shall be
served on the President, and in his absence on
| the Secretary.
The capital stock of this corporation is de-
| clared to be sixty thousand dollars 1850, 0,000)
| divided into 600 shares of one hundred dollars
| each which shall be paid for in cash or proper
| ty actually sold and delivered to this corpora
| tiOn, and shall be due and payable in such
| amounts and at such times and places as the
Board of Directors may resolve and determine.
This corporation shall begin operation as soon
| as three hundred 1901 shares, making the sum
Of thirty thousand dollars t$3O, ,OOO) shall have
been subscribed to the capital stock and paid in
ARTICLE v.
i The affairs Oi this corporation shall be under
the management and control of the Board OF
Directors composed of three stockholders to
be elected annually at a meeting of the stock
holders, for that purpose, Ito be held on the
first Monday in October, 1885, and yearly
thereafter after ten days notice in a .newspa
per published in the parish in which the com
pany is domiciled. Uutil the first election the
Directors shall be P. c. Bulkley, F. 7. WhiteG
and II. III. Wheless, who shall serve until theil
successors are duly appointed.
ARTICLE VI.
The officers of this corporation shall be
President, a ice-President and Secretar,
and Treasurer, and said officers shall be elect
ed annually by the Board of Directors, ant
until the first election the officers shall be a
follows: P. C. Bulkley, President; f. 7
Whited, vice-President: who shall act as gen
eral manager; HI. III. Wheless, Secretary ant
Treasurer; who shall serve until their success
sOrs are duly elected.
ARTICLE VII.
No stOckholder shall ever be held liable o
responsible for the contracts or faults of salt
corporation in any further sum than the un
paid balance due to the company on the share
owned by him; nor shall any informality il
the organization have the effect of renderin
this charter null, or of exposing a stOckhOlde
to any liability beyond the amount of hi
stock No transfer of stock by the holder
thereof shall be binding on this corporation
unles said transfer Is duly entered On its books
ARTICLE VIII.
| Whenever this corporation is dissolved b
: limitation or from any other cause, its affair
shall be hquidated by three commissioner
J from the stockholders, appointed for tha
| purpose, at a meeting of same convened afte
ten days notice to said stockholders, give
. to them by letter addressed to each stocl
s holder and deposited in the mail. In case
E death or failure to act, said remaining con
misiOners shall appoint their successors.
r This done and passed at my Office, in sal
parish of Caddo, the day and date above wri
ten, In the presence Of Chas. J. Randall an
Foster Carter, competent witnesses, who wit
' said appearers and me, Notary, have signe
these presents.
MARY NJ. BULKLEY,
= ByP. C. BULKLEY.
P. C. BULKLEY.
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