The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-09-16
Charter Of the
Little b Lumber
AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,
Limited.

STATE OF LOUISIANA, Z Be it known that on
PARISH OF BossIER. this, the 2}rd day of
August. A. D., 1897, before nc, X. B. Hill,
Deputy Clerk and ex-otficio Notary Public i'll
and for Bossicr Parish, Louisiana. duly APP.
pointed, commissioned and qualified. and III
the presence of the witnesses hereinafter nam
ed and undersigned, personally came and
appeared the persons whose names are hereto
subscribed, WHO severally declared that, avail
ing themselves OF the provisions of Act 30, of
Session of 1888 approved June %, 1888, rs well
as those of all the general laws of tho State of
Louisiana relative to the organization OF cor
porations, they have formed and organized,
and by these presents do form and organize
themselves and their associates and successors
into corporation for the objects and purposes,
and under the terms and stipulatlons herein
after set forth, to-wit:
ARTICLE I.
The name and title of this Corporation shall
be Little Is Lumber and Construction Gonna
ny, 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 corporate name may sne and be sued;
| may have, hold, purchase, sell, convey, lease,
mortgage and pledge property, real and per
sOnal; may have and use corporate seal and
same to change at will, and generally NAV have
and possess any and all powers and privileges
which corporations are, or may be authorized
to possess by law, and particularly to carry ont
| the purposes of this corporations; and its pres
ent domicle shall be Benton, Bossler Parish,
| Louisiana.
| The object and purposes of this Corporation
| are declared to be 10 buy and sell timber lands,
to manufacture, buy and sell lumber, and to
build and operate saw and planning mill plants
railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, and
| houses.
| 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
| clared to he twenty thousand dollars $50 0G0)
| divided into four hundred 400 shares of $50
each which shall be paid for in cash or proper
ty actually sold and delivered to this Corpora
! ton, 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 forty tlo) shares of stock-lnaking two
thousand dollars ($2000l-shall have been sub
sclibed to the capital stock and paid in.
| ARTICLE V.
| The affairs OF this Corporation shall be under
| tie management and control of the Board of
| Directors, composed of three or five stockhold-
| ers to be elected annually at q meeting of the
stockholders for that purpose, to be held on
first Monday in October, 1897, and yearly
thereafter, latter ten days notice given to each
| stakeholder by the Secretary and Treasurer)
Until the first election. the Directors shall be
| W. b. Simpson, A X. Zuber and B. X. NASH
| ARTICLE vi.
The officers of this Corporation shall be {.
President, a Vice President and a Secretary
/ and Treasurer, and said officers shall be elected
annually by the Board of Directors and until
the first election the officers shall be as follows
w. Is Simpson, President; a. X. Zuber Vice
President; r. Nash, Secretary and Treasur
err who shall serve until their Successors are
duly elected.
ARTICLE VII.
No stakeholder shall ever be held liable OF
responsible for the contracts or faults of said
Corporation III any further sum than the m
paid balance due to the Company on the shares
subscribed by him. nor shall any informally
in the organization have the effect of renderipe
this Charter null, or of exposing any stock
| holder to any liability beyond the amount O.
| stock owned or subscribed by him. ANY officer
of this Company may be removed al auy time
| by vote OF Il majority of the stockholders
Any stock or shareholder of this Company ma,
otter said stock or shares in payment of an,
debt or debts due the Company. The Presden
and Secretary only shall make debts or con
tracts for the Company.
ARTICLE VIII.
Whenever this Corporation is dissolved b,
limitation, ortrom any other cause its affairs
shall be iquidated by three commissioner
elected by and from the stockholders for tina
purpose, at a meeting of the same convenct
after ten days notice TO each of said stockhold
ers given to them by letter addressed to eael
stakeholder and deposited in the mail In cas-,
of death or failure to act. said remaining com
nissioners shall appoint their successors.
This done and passed at my office, in salt
Parish of Bossier and State of Louisiana, OF
the day and date above mentioned, in presence
of J. II. Cabeen and w. z. Oneal, who bein.
competent witnesses, signed these presents
with said appearers and me as Notary
Attest: w. b SIMPSON.
W.P. ONEAL. A. X. ZUBER.
J. II. CABEEN.1 g. r. NASH
K. B. HILL, Deputy Clerk and
ex-otfcio Notary Public
STATE OF LOUISIANA, Having examined tn
PARISH OF IOssIER foregoing act of incor
poration of The Little b Lumber and Con
struction Company Limited, and finding moth
ing contrary to the law contained therein,
hereby approve the same.
Done and signed officially on this, the Orr
day of August, 1897. A. J. MURFF.
District Attorney. 2nd District, La