The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-18
CHARTER AMENDMENT
to the Charter of the Kan
sas City, Shreveport and Gulf
Railway Company,


Railway Company.
Adopted at meeting of the stock
holders held at the Office of the COM
pany in the city of Shreveport, La,
OH April 7, 1905:
Resolved, That Article of the
Charter of the Kansas City, Shreveport
and Gulf Railway Company be amended
SO as to read as follows:
"The object and purposes for which
this corporation is organized and found
cd, and the nature of the business to be
carried on by it are declared to be the
construction, establishment, operation
and maintenance of railway from
point on the ArkansassState line, on the
north boundary of Caddo Parish, La,
by way of Shreveport, or its vicinity, III
scutherly direction, to a point at or
near Sabine Pass, in the State of Louis
lana or Texas, with branch from said
main line to New Orleans, and such
other branch lines and extensions as the
Board of Directors of said company may
deem necessary for the transportation
Of freight or passengers; that the con-
struction and maintenance of magnetic
line of telegraph, telephone, or other
means of communication; and to make
interchangeable traffic rates for COM
nnnication, persons and property over
its lines and connections; and to receive
for such messages, communications and
TRANSPORTATION such toll and charges as
may be established by the authorized Of
fcers; to obtain and receive by grant,
purchase, gift OF bequest both real and
personal property; and for the pur-
chase of land, supplies, material, rolling
stock, or the payment of labor, contracts
and works, to issue stock certificates or
bonds in payment thereof, and at such
valuations as may be agreed upon and
between the directors of this corporation
and the owner of land, material, Sup
plies, rolling stock, and the labors OF
contractors of work; to accept or re-
ceive from any State, county OR parish
district, town, village or person, any
right, privileges or franchises which the
same NAV offer for the construction
maintenance, management or use OF Its
TRANSPORTATION lines, their depots
wharves, shops, cars, locomotives, anc
the general business which the same may
choose to grant, release to or otherwise
confer to give; to borrow money Or te
purchase or lease property on its owl
credit for the purpose of constructing
| maintaining and operating a line o.
Transportation and telegraph, and as evi
dence of Indebtedness of this corporation
for such loans of the purchase or leas
of said property, to issue its corporate
bonds, or promissory notes, bearing III
terest and made payable either in tn
United States currency or gold coin, an
at such time and place as may be ieeme
advantageous by the directors and 70
securing the payment of said bonds an
Inotes, to mortgage and pledge its rail
roads, capital stock, company building
Icorporate franchise, real or persona
property, or any portion of the same"
| Upon motion duly made, seconded an
lpassed, it was voted to adopt the follow
ing resolution, modifying Article ~
the Charter of the company:
"The corporate powers of SAID CO..
poration shall be exercised by and veste
! in a Board of Directors composed
i seven stockholders. Said directors sha
be elected annually on Friday after II
81 first Thursday Of April Of each year,
, such other day as the stockholders at
, regular meeting may fix, and all SUI
elections shall be by ballot and conduc
i ed at the office of said corporation,
which election thirty days prior noti
8 shall be given in a newspaper publ'sh'
. | in the city of Shreveport. And the !
lrectors thus elected shall serve un
their successors shall have been electe
( A majority Of the votes cast shall elc
to one vote, either in person or by pro'