The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1903-12-05
CHARTER.

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| BE it known that on this second day
! Of December in the year of our Lord
Nineteen Hundred and Three, before Die
Charles 4. ONieli, a Notary Public. duly
| commissioned, sworn. qualified in and
for the Parish of st. Mary. State Of
! Louisiana. and in the presence nj Mcss;s.
| Charles +. Bell and Emmett Alpha, good
| and competent Witnesses. residing in
said Parish of St Mary. personally came
and appeared Robert :. Barnett. EsIr.,
Ge rye NJ. Lester. Esqr., Horatio A.
Brown, Esq all residents OF The Parish
of 81. Mary, State Of Louisiana who
| severallA declared that awaiting them
! selves Of the laws of the State If Louis
lana, relative 10 the formation If corpo-
rallons for certain purposes and eSpeci-
ally Of the act No. IS Of the year 1888,
and beng DESTROYS Of acquiring and en-.
JOY ing The rights, privileges and powers
of a body corporate, they lave contract
ed and agreed. and they do by these
presents contract anu agree among them
selves and bind themselves as well as
any other such persons. who may be-
come associated with them. to form Il
body polite Or corporation limited for
the purposes and objects AMI under the
Slipulat!ons and cCnditlous, following
to wit:
Article i.
lie lame 6. 'iI!s corporation shall be
" he Baldwin Ln,nbtr Company, Linn
itett am: Is dn:n,,i lie is hrrtby declared
E" i'. IL ine Parish OF ~ Mary, State Of
Louisiana,
.t;ilclr =.
ia" ~ cia nnl ..uv,,.,s =. THIS cor
q. itttr' a.t htt"ol declared to be- the
.atr. ~ ~. %! n -" anil b.lsiuesS SAW
iis ip2s !: 10 .uinpvl. cross ties, shingles
aud he pr, i.'r"tir, OF said lumber fut
market J" my 81 IL stages. the buy iu.,
~ 80 .s.t r1.''ifin, ~ i''sS or wood
H. 'hj- "a -. h.: tt"ni ltnI, be
y urtG4 ~, ,t 'sl tnl ,af.us ~ "tIlc,s the
OWING of Ian 5 an" machinery u
"'.itsinG> ~ Na"t purposes "a. re;.l.ug
~ ldh'..' -a'i i'uil'",e,, The bu. IN
an" setting ~ 'ea' .:t'i personal property.
't"i l'as'"- N,.'mr. an. buy my aud sell
~ tnuer au1 Gee Stanuily ai,ih lands
~ others, cutting cn,i VOID or other
" n,j aud gray iu- auti selling same. the
construction an" maintenance and oprr-
a;ion .. I'll in'l's " other appqrtenauces
for The carrying on of said business;
erection. maintenance, and operation of
all appliances, tram ways, har.es, steam-
boats aid any apparatus necessary aud
convenient for carrying On the general
objects of this corporation, and gener-
ally to amy and all things necessary or
convenient for the general purposes of
this corporation.
Article 3.
The capital sock of this corporation
is hereby declared 10 be Fifty Thousand
Dollars. divided into Five Hundred
shares of One Hundred dollars each,
which shall be,issurd in cash or in Ser
vices, or III property, or the stock may
be ISSUED IN payment of debts or liabili-
ties Of this company, or the expenses
aud costs aud fees for organization, And
this corporation shall begin business as
soon as Ten thousand Dollars of it's
stock is subscribed for and paid into the
Treasury.
Article 4,
The business affairs of this corporation
shall be administered by Board of BIZ !
reclors to be CONFUSED OF not less than !;
three and not More than five in number. |
each oi whom, must he the owner of one |
or more shares of stock OF the COMPANY !
Said Board shall be elected annually on
The first MOnuay of December 5y Il ma
JorIly OF The took a, general meeting
Vi the s,DcknOiders OF the company after /,
due NOTICE Of TIN days given by mail BY
the Secrelaty I" each person owning .
stock 4. shown by HE books of the cor. .
porallou; and ali boards shall huid over
until then SUCCESSORS are ELECTED. A
failure from any CAUSE to elect Directors
shall not operate u 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
pc Called after ten days notice thereof
shall BE- gwen by the Secretary through
he mails to each stakeholder as afore.
said. The Directors shall have power to
oil all vacancies occurring in their num-
Der. AT all meetings of the stockholders
sach share of stock shall be entitled to
me vote to be cast either in person or
oy proxy, but no one shall hold pr.xv
who Is not himself stakeholder. All
elections shall be by ballot unless the
ballot is unanimously waived and dis
'ensed with. The Directors shall elect
rom their number a President, a Vice
resident, and Secretary Treasurer. who
hall hnlH nufiI thai.