The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-07
Charter. or
Martin Lumber Company,
Limited,

| Ctate of Louisiana, , Be it known, That
! y Parish Of Bossier' : on this the 18th day
Of January, A. D. Eighteen Hundred and
Notary Public in and for Bossier Parish, Lou
isiana, duly appointed, commissioned and
qualified and in the presence of the witnesses
hereinafter named and undersigned, personal
ly came and appeared the persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed who severally de-
elared that ayailing themselves Of the provis-
ions of Act Sc of Session of 1888, approved
June 18th, 1888, as we'll as those of all the
general laws of the State of Louisiana, rela-
tive to the organization of corporations, they
| have formed and organized, and by these pre-
| sents do form and organize themselves and
tnelr associates and successors into corpora
ton for the objects and purposes, and under
the terms and stipulat'ons hereinafter set
~ ART1cLE1.
The name and title of this corporation shall
be MARTIN LUMBER COMPANY; Limited,
and under said name it shall have and enjoy
succession for the period of ninety-nine years
from the date of this charter and in said cor
porate name may sue and be sued may have,
hold, purchase. sell, convey, lease, mortgage
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
domicile shall be Bolinger, Bossier Parish,
Louisiana.
ARTICLE II.
The objects 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.
ralidoad, telegraph, and telephone lines, and
to conduct general merchantile business.
ARTICLE III.
Citations and all legal processes shall be
served on the President, and in his absence on
the Secretary and Treasurer.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of this corporation is de-
clarer to be twenty five thousand dollars
($25O0Ol divided into 500 shares of $50 each.
which shall be paid for in cash or property
actually sold and delivered to this corporation.
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 a.
500 shares of stock, making the sum of twenty
i've thousand dollars t$25, 000) shall have been
subscribed to the capital stock and paid in.
ARTICLE v.
The affairs of this corporation shall be under
the management and control of the Board of
Directors composed of five stockholders to be
elected annually at meeting of the stock
holders. for that purpose, to be held on the
first Monday in January 1896, and yearly
thereafter, latter ten days notice gwen to each
stookholder by the Secretary aud Treasurer
Until the first election the Directors shall be
5. b. Bolinger, j. 81. Woods, M. s. Bolinper,
W. B. Boggs and B. W. Schenebeck, who shall
serve until their successors are duly appointed.
ARTICLE vi.
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President, q vice-President and a Secretary
and Treasurer, and said officers shall be elect
ed annually by the Board of Directors, and
until the first election the officers shall be as
follows: s. h. Bolinger. President; j. H.
Woods, vice-President; NJ. s. Bolinger, Secre-
tary and Treasurer; who shall serve until
their successors are duly elected.
ARTICLE VII.
No stotkholder shall ever be held liable or
responsible for the contracts or faults of said
corporation in any further sum than the un-
paid balance due to the company on the shares
subscribed by him nor shall any informality
in the organization have the effect of rendering
this charter uull, or of exposing any stock.
holder to any liability beyond the amount of
fer Of stock by the holders thereof shall be
binding On this corporation unless said trans
fer Ia duly entered on its books.
ARTICLE VIII.
Whenever this corporation is dissolved BY
limitation, or from any other cause, is affairs
shall be iquidated by three commissioners
elected by and from the stockholders for that
purpose, at a meeting of same convened after
ten days notice to each of said stockholders
given to them by letter addressed to each
stakeholder and deposited in the mail In
case of death or failure to act, said remaining
commissioners shall appoint their successors
This done and passed at my Office, in said
Parish of Bossier, and State Of Louisiana, Oh
the day and date above mentioned, in presence
Of J. K. Crowder and Geo. T. Crapp, who
being competent witnesses, signed these pre-
sents with said appearers and me, said Notary
s. II. BOLINGER.
J.H. WOODS.
M. s. BOLINGER.
W. b. BOGGS.
B. w, SCHENEBECK.
j. F. JONES.
II. /. BUECHLEY.
j. l.. HEATH.
FLORENCE BOLINGER.
Attest:
J. K CRowDER.
GEO. T. CRAPP.
W. B. BOGGS,
Notary Public in and for Bossier Parish, La.
State of Louisiana, Having examined the
Parish of Bossier foregoing act of incorpo-