The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1904-01-29
CHARTER.
State of Louisiana.
Parish of Winn.


Be it known and remembered that on this
the 9Th day of December 1903 M. Il. Marhen1
D. b. Coates, j. d. Pace, R. H. McCormaek.
James Shayalier and w. ]. Fry. personally and
Clerk and Ex-ofsiceo Notary Pubic in ana ~ %
the Parish of VIM, La. duly Commissioned
and quaiihed and in the presence of the WIT
declared: ~
That awaiting themselves of the laws of this
stare relative to corporations and especially of
act NO IS OF 1855 and No. of 1902, of the gene
RAJ assembly OF the State of Louisiana, they
nave chsenanted and agreed and by these
presents do covenant and agree and bind them
serves, as well as such other persons as NAV be
hereafter associated with them, to form and
constituie corporation and body polite in
Jaw Tor the purposes and objects and under the
st1puiations and provisions hereinafter set
sorth, wn,ch they hereby accept and constitute
as their charter, to wit:
ARTICLE
Tne name and title OF the said company
shall be the Southern Labor and Mutual Union
mo ITS domiciie is hereby established at Winn-
lelu. Winn Parish, State OF Louisiana. and
under its said corporate name said corporation
shall have power and authority to contract.
sue and be sued to make and use q corporate
seal an the same to break and alter at Die asure:
10 hold receive loan, purchase. Improve, allie
nate. convey. sell, borrow. pledge, mortgage
and hypothicat-,under It's said corporate name.
property r-ais personal and mixei. To name
and appoint such officers. directors, agents and
managers, or employees as the interest and
convenience OF said corporation may require.
TO make and establish by law rules and reru-
iations OF its affairs such as NAV be deemed
necessary to carry out the objects and uur-
poses OF said corporation. Said corporation.
stockholders, shall exist and continue Tor
period OF ninety-ninety years from and after
the date hereof.
ARTICLE 9
suits for said corporation shall be brought
in the name OF the said corporation by its
president or in his absence or inability to act
In the name OF the general manager and all
process and citation shall be served ON the
president or general manager al the domicile
and Office OF the said corporation and in case
OF the absence or death. or inability to act from
served ON the secretary. The officers of this
corporation shall be, president n yice-Dresi-
Gent, secretary, treasurer and general mana-
ger, or such others as the majority OF the stock-
holders may hereafter determine The treas
urer shall give bond with good solvent security
In such sum as the board of directors may de-
OF directors shall be stockholders in this cor
porafion. The drst boa-d OF directors and
ofncers elected under this charter shall hold
their Offices at the pleasure of a majority vote
of the stockholders. and until their successors
are elected and qualified.
ARTICLE
The objects and purposes for which this cor-
Pola.Ion Is organized, and the nature OF the
follows, to- wit: - -
To buy, purchase, and otherwise acquire. by
- Sits W " III or OtnerW1Se. to own. have
and hold, to sell and convey and dispase Of
lana o. other property, real OF personal, rights
u ~ creoits, 70 conduct and carry on q Labor |
bureau, for the purpose of aiding labor TO lind /
lsgismate empioyment.and capital to find read /
anu competent labor, and to bring about n /
more harmonious feeling between capitaI and
iaooI, 70 the end that both may be benefited
! snail iurther have power and AUTHORITY to 1
olsanizs . secret society in the state OF Louisi-
ana, 20 De known as the Supreme Temple. the /
oplecte OF which are to build up and maintain /
more 1T8fGrUal feeling hef
ana the employee, thereby endeavoring to |
II not entirely remove the friction
netween capital and labor The said Supreme
iempie. when organized, to have full power to
organize and charter subordinate Temples
throughout the state of Louisiana and other
states Of the union, BY complying ss,h the
Jaws Er OF said states. relative 10 corporations.
saia subordinate Temple to be branches or
AID under the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Temple and organized for the same objects and
purposes rs the Supreme Temple said Su-
p1rthe temple and subordinate temples TO
nave the power snd authority to make such
and by laws ~ may ~ necessary