The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-12-26
CHARTER.

Il December in tn" year of our Lord
Nineteen Hundred and Three, before me
Charles ! O'Niell, Il Notary Public. duly
commissioned, sworn qualified in and
for the Parish Of st. Mary. State of
Louisiana. and in the presence nf Messrs
Charles Z. Bell and Emmett Alpha, good
and competent witnesses. residing in
said parish of st. Mary, personally came
and appeared Robert :. Barnett. Esqr.,
&c rye NJ Lester. EsQr.. Horatio A.
Brown, Esq, all residents Of the Parish
of 81. Mary, State Of Louisiana. who
sevcrally declared that awaiting them
selves of the laws Of the State If Louis
lana, relative to the formation Of corpo-
rations for certain purposes and lspeci-
ally Of the acf No. 36 of Tie year 1888,
and being DESTROYS OF acquiring and en-
JOKING the rights, privileges and powers
of n body corporate, they have contract
ell and agreed, and they do by these
presents contract anu agree among them
selves and bind themselves rs we'll as
any other such persons. who may be-
come associated with them. to form
body polite or corporation limited for
the purposes and objects and under the
siiDuia,ions and conditions, following
to wit:
Article
The name of this corporation shall be
''The Baldwin Lumber Company, Linz
tied" and its domicile is hereby declared
to he in the Parish of St. Mary, State Of
Louisiana.
Article 2.
The objects and purposes of this cor
poration are hereby declared to b. the
carr, ing on of the saw mill business saw
ing logs into lumber. cross ties, sh ingles
and the preparation OF said lumber for
market it, any oi its stages, the buying,
cutting and procuring of logs or wood
for this purpose either from lands be-
longing to it or from lands of others. the
owning of Ian IS and machinery and
buildings for said purposes. the renting
vf lands for said purposes, the buying
and selling of real and personal property,
aud leasing same, ami buying and sell
ing timber aud trees standing apon lands
nf others. cutting cor wood or other
w"ud and buying ami selling same the
construction and maintenance and nper-
alton of III mills Or other appurtenauces
for the carrying on of said business:
erection, maintenance, and operation of
all appliances, tram ways, barges, steam
boats aud any apparatus necessary aud
convenient for carrying 90 the general
objects oil this corporation, and gener-
ally To any and all things necessary Or
convenient for the general purposes of
This corporation.
Article 3.
The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby declared to be Fifty Thousand
Dollars. divided into Five Hundred
shares of One Hundred dollars each,
which shall he issued in cash or in ser
vices. or in property, or the stock may
be issued in payment of debts or Iiabili-
ties If this company, or the expenses
and COSTS aud lees for organization, And
this corporation shall! begIn business rs
soon As Ten IhouSaud Dailars of it's
stock is subscribed Tor and paid into the
Treasury.
Article 4.
The business affairs of this corporation
slIa br administered by Il Board Of Di-
rcctors +" be composed o, not less than
three and moi mure than five in number,
each OF whom, must be the owner of one
or more shares of stock of the Company.
Sai'i Board shall be elected annually on
the first Monday Of December by Il ma
jority of the stock at Il general meeting
ct the Stockholders Of the company after
due notice of ten days given by mail by
the Secretary 10 each person owning
stock as shown by the books of the cor
poratiOn, and all boards shall hold over
until their successors are elected. a
failure from any cause to elect Directors
shall not operate a forfeiture of this
charter or of any rights under me. but
the old Board snail hold over aud an
other meeting of the stockholders shall
be called after ten days notice thereof
shall BE- gwen by the secretary through
the mails to each stakeholder as afOre- !
said. The Directors shall have power to |
ill all vacancies occurring in their num-
Der. AT all meetings of the stockholders
each share of stock shall be entitled to
me vote to be Cast either in person or
by proxy, but no on. shall hold 4 proxy |
who Is not himself II stakeholder. All |
elections shall b. by ballot unless the
ballot is unanimously waived and dis
pensed with. The Directors shall elect |
from their number Pre- 3ident, a Vice
and Secretary Treasurer, who
shall hold until their successors arc
elected.