The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1902-06-21
STATE OF LOUISIANA
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PARISH OF GRANT.
Be 1t known and remembered that
on this the 18th day of May, A. u.
1902, before me, Earl Roberts, a No
tary Public duly qualified in and for
the said parish and State, and In the
presence of the undersigned subscrib-
appeared the persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who in the
said presence declared that, awaiting
constitution and laws OF the State
provisions of Act No. So of the Acts
Of the General Assembly of said State
for the year 1883, they do by these
SCISSORS and assigns, and such persons
into a body corporate, under the
laws OF this State, set forth In the
following charter, to-wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name OF this corporation shall
he The Colfax Cotton Oil Company,
Limited, under which name It shall
have corporate existence and success
sion for a period of ninety-nine years
from this date. with power to con-
tract, sue and be sued, plead and be
implicated. and to acquire. sell, lease,
mortgage and pledge real and per-
sOnal property, elect officers, make
bylaws. and generally, in the prose-
cutiOn and for the purpose of it's
business, to do any act and make all
contracts competent to he made or
done by corporations under the laws
of this State.
ARTICLE III.
The domIcil OF this corporation
shall be In the town OF Colfax, Grant
parish, Louisiana. and all citations
and other legal process shall be serv-
ed on the president, or in the event
OF his absence from the Office of said
corporation, upon either the vice
president or the secretary and treas
urer.
ARTICLE III.
The objects and purposes of this
corporation shall be reconstruct. op-
crate and maintain q cotton seed oil
mill, for the manufacture of cotton
seed products, oil. soaps and other
OleaginOus compounds.
ARTICLE Nv.
The capital stock OF this corpora
ton is fixed at the sum of Forty
Thousand Dollars, divided into Four
Hundred Shares Of One Hundred Dol
lars each, payable cash on the sign
Ing of these presents, or on the de-
mand OF the secretary and treasurer,
under penalty Of FORGETTING all shares
subscribed in this corporation.
Certificates for shares shall be sign
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Inc corporate powers OF this cor
porauon snaii De hxed IN a board OF
oifectors: composed Oh seven persons,
VINO snail pe immediately elected on
tne slgnng o! These presents ny the
stocknoiders herein. a majority OF
saia poard SNAIL constitute q quorum
!or tne transaction OF business: Said
Doaru Oh directors upon their election
snaii lmmediately elect President,
vice. PRESIDENT and Secretary and
treasurer. SAID directors and officers
elected by them shall hold their OFF,
GERS until the first Monday In August,
lSU5, their successors to be elected on
nrst monday IN August 1903, after
thirty days notice BY publication In
newspaper published In the town
OF C0ifax, or by personal notice for
warded to each OF the stockholders
IN this corporation at said date. sent
TO such stockholders through the
mails Dy the PRESIDENT or Secretary