The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-24

| in person or by proxy, on every share OF
| stock owned by him, and the maj ority Of
4 votes cast shall elect The Board OF
| Directors shall prescribe the manner in
| which said meeting shall be held and the
votes cast and the result ascertained The
| failure to hold any annual meeting shall
not terminate this charter. but the Of
hcers then in office shall continue in Of
| flee and shall summon an annual meeting
as soon as possible.
The Board of Directors Of this cor
poration shall exercise all the powers,
| both general and special. vested in this
corporation as fully in everv respect as
the same might be exercised by the
| stockholders of the company, and shall
| in no case be required to summon a
| meeting of the shareholders of the COM
pany to ratify or authorize an act, con-
tract, alienation or encumbrance done or
entered into by the said board.
The first Board Of Directors of this
company, who shall hold Office until the
first Wednesday of February, 1904, and
until their successors are elected and
qualified, shall be: D. C.. Richardson, W.
H. Hearne and J. g. Newberry, with D.
C.. Richardson as president, w. H.
Hearne vice president, and J. G. New
berr- secretary, who shall also be treas
urer.
The officers of this corporation shall be
a president, vice president and secretary
treasurer. Every director shall own at
least one share of the capital stock of
this company.
At all meetings of directors, the III
rectors not present in the city of Shreve-
port may give their proxy Or power of
attorney to director present, who may
be present to cast the vote of the absent
directors on all matters that may come
before the board, in such sense as the
director to whom the proxy is given may
see proper, or the proxy may contain
specific directions how and in what sense
the vote of the absent director shall be
cast.
ARTICLE VI.
This charter may be amended by
vote of three fourths of the stockholders
held att general meeting convened for
that purpose, after fifteen days notice
published in one of the newspapers pub
hshed daily IN the city of Shreveport,
and after a copy of the notice of said
meeting shall have been mailed to each
shareholder at his address, or left with
the secretary of the company; and the
corporation may be dissolved with the
consent of three fourths of the stock
represented at such meeting. The capital
stock of the company may be increased
or diminished by complying with the
general laws of the State IF Louisiana
upon such matters.
III ARTICLE VII.
Whenever this corporation shall be
dissolved by expiration of its charter, or
sooner by vote of the shareholders, two
liquidators shall be elected at a meeting
of the shareholders at a general meeting
of the shareholders held after fifteen
days notice, as above provided. These
liquIdators shall continue in office until
the full liquidation of the corporation,
and in case of the death of either of
them, the shareholders may elect sue
cessor, or if they do not select success
sor the powers of both liquidators shall
be vested in the surviving liquidator
ARTICLE VIII.
No stockholders OF this corporation
shall ever be held liable or responsible
Tor the contracts or faults of such cor
porat1on in any further sum than the
unpaid balance due to the corporation on
the shares owned by him; nor shall any |
mere informality in organization have
the effect Of rendering this charter null, |
or of exposing stakeholder to any fur
ther liability than the amount of his
stock.
Thus done and passed at nv office in
the city of Shreveport, La, on the day,
month and year hereinbe fore first writ |
ten, in the presence of E. II. Randolph |
and H. w. Lehman, competent wit
nesses, who hereunto sign their names.
with the said appearers, and me, notary,
after the reading of the whole
(Signed1 ::
D. C. RICHARDSON,
W. II. HEARNE,
]. G. NEWBERRY.
Witnesses:
E II. RANDOLPH.
II. w. LEHMAN
ALLEN Kendall,
Notary Public Caddo Parish, La. |
State of louisiana, Parish of Caddo /
|, Iohn r Land, district attorney of the
First Judicial District, Caddo Parish, |
Louisiana, do hereby certify that have
examined the above and foregoing char
ter and articles of incorporation, and,
finding nothing therein contrary to law,
| hereby aoDrove the same
JOHN R. LAND.
District Attorney First Judicial Dis
trict Of Louisiana, Caddo Parish.
April Il 1908.
endorsed: Filed and recorded April
April II, 1909.