Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1902-03-14
ARTICLES Of INCORPORATION
OR Tm-
Union Church Assn,
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
Parish of Tensas

<1ftoR OF leHSuS.
BFORE ME, Joseph Curry, Clerk
of Court and ex-oficio a Notary
Public In and for above parish and
State, and in the presence of the
two undersigned competent wit
nesses, at my Office in st. Joseph,
Louisiana, personally came the in
divlduals, whose names are here
unto subscribed, all of this parish,
who, acting for themselves and
their associates, declared that,
awaiting themselves of the provis-
ions of the laws of this State rela-
tive to the organization of corpor-
ations for religious and charitable
purposes, they hereby agree and
covenant to form themselves and
their associates into a body cor
porate and polite, and for this
purpose they do hereby adopt and
.ordain the following articles of in
corporation.
AhAlOLk i.
This corporation shall be known
as "UNION CHURCH ASSOCE
ALTON" Its domicile shall be
in the town of st. Joseph, in this
parish; it shall exist and continue
for Ninety nine Years from date,
unless sooner dissolved according
to law.
Three members shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of
all business.
ARTICLE II
The objects and purposes of this
organization are declared to be the
erecting aud maintaining in the
Village of st. Joseph, Louisiana,
a Church, non-sectarian in char
acter, wherein all denominations
can worship God, each in its own
way and under its own forms and
ceremonies, to teach and inculcate
liberation in religion, and to soft
ell the asperities of life and to do
such other work as shall fall with
in the scope of its duty as an or
ganization of this order.
ARTICLE III.
The officers of this Corporation
shall consist of a President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treas
urer and five Trustees.
ARTICLE ".
This Corporation shall have the
power to sue and be sued, to hold
own and possess property. real or
personal, to acquire same by pur-
chase, donation or otherwise; to
dispose of same in any manner
and to perform all other such acts
and to enjoy any and all other
rights and privileges granted to
such organizations.
ARTICLE v.
The President of this Associa-
ton, upon whom all process must
be served, is hereby constituted
the legal representative of this
Corporation IN all transactions
and matters of business whatso-
ever aud shall have the power to
call special meetings of this Asso-
citation.
The following named members
are declared to be the present Of
ficers of this Corporation and are
to hold their offices until January,
1902, when their successors are to
be elected, and all election for Of
ficers is to be held annually there
after.
Presidept-Mrs. James Curry
Vice PresideIt-Mrs. Dunbar
Newell.
Secretary and Treasurer Mr..
B. F. Bonney.
Trustees Mr.. lack Griffing,
Mrs. Caraway, Mrs. India Brown,
Mr.. Josiah P. Scott, Miss Clara
Whitneys
ARTICLE VI.
The officers of this Corporation,
including the Trustees, shall have
the power and right, in the name
of the Corporation, to contract
for the building of the aforesaid
church, to make terms for the
payment of same; to acquire the
site for the said church, whether
by donation or otherwise, and to
do oil other acts in reference to
said church as if specially author
lied thereto by this Body, the pur-
pose being that the power to dc
everything and anything in con.
nection with the erection and
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