The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-03-23
CHARTER
OF THE "A. J. HAMMER OIL COM.
PANY."

day of March, 1905, personally came ant
appeared before me, at my Office in tht
City of Shreveport said Parish ane
State, A. J. Hammer, a resident O.
| Bloon,burg, State of Texas; E. L. Ed
wards, a resident of Cad1o Parish
Louisiana; and w. H. Blackburn, also
lof Caddo Parish, Louisiana, who eacl
stated and declared to me, notary, that
availing themselves of the laws of the
State of Louisiana for the formation OF
corporations, and especially under and
by virtue of Act III of 1882, they have
formed and do by these presents form
and organize themselves, as we'll as all
others that may hereafter become asso-
ciated with them, into body corporate,
and have made and do by these presents
declare this to be their charter and act
of incorporation, under the terms and
conditions hereinafter named, to-wit:
ARTICLE I.
The name OF this corporation shall be
the "A. J. Hammer Oil Company" and
under said corporate name it shall have
and enjoy succession for a period Of
twenty-five years unless sooner dissolved
in the manner hereafter stipulated, with
its domicile at the City of Shreveport,
Parish of Caddo, State of louisiana.
ARTICLE II.
The object of this corporation and its
purposes are hereby declared to be tc
own, lease, acquire and operate Oil
wells, oil lands, and to bore for oil, gas
or other minerals in the State of Louis
lana or in the State of Texas, and to
own, lease an doperate pipe lines. tank
cars, Or other means of transmitting OIL
Or other minerals, and generally to dc
md perform any and all acts that may
be necessary in carrying out the pur-
poses of this charter
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corporation;
shall be five hundred thousand dollars.
divided into twenty thousand shares OF
twenty-five dollars each, and it shall
commence business whenever two hun
dred ard fifty thousand dollars of its
capital stock shall have been subscribed
and paid for in full No stock shall be
issued except for property, services
labor or other valuable consideration
paid at the time of its issuance, and said
stock shall be transferable only on the
books of the corporation at its domicile
ARTICLE ".
The affairs of said corporation shall
be managed by board of directors con-
'isting of three stockholders, who shall
be elected annually at a stockholders
meeting called for. that purpose on tin
irst Monday in April of each year, and
said board of directors shall hold office
until their successors are duly elected
md installed. The first board of direct
ors shall be A. ]. Hammer, who shall
De president and general manager; E. L.
vice president and assistant
general manager, and w. H. Blackburn
who shall be secretary and treasurer.
md they shall hold their Offices until the
irst Monlay in April, 1905, or until their
successors are duly elected and installed.
ARTICLE V.
All legal process shall be served on
vice president, or in the absence of both. |
vice president, or in the absence of both, |
On the secretary and treasurer, at the
domicile of the company.
ARTICLE VI.
Said corporation shall have power to
sue and be suel, to plead and be inn
pleaded, to contract and be contracted
with, to buy, sell, mortgage or lease
:eal and personal property, to make and
Use a corporate seal and the same to
liter at pleasure, and to make and
adopt such rules and bylaws as the in
erests of the said corporation may
from time to time require.
ARTICLE VII.
At all meetings of stockholders each
share of stock shall be entitled to one
tote, either in person or by written
,roxy, and all meetings of stockholders
hall be preceded by thirty days notice, |
published in one of the papers of the |
City of Shreveport, and by written no
ice mailed to each stockholder through |
he mails to his postofice address, pro-
tided that by unanimous consent all Of
he stockholders such notice may be dis |
,ensed with and such meetings held |
ooTer.
ARTICLE VIII.
Whenever this corporation is dis
olvei by limitation Or otherwise, its af
airs shall be liquidated by two commits
toner's elected for that purpose at a
,eneral meeting of the stockholders
allied for that purpose, and they shall |
i've such bond and security for the |
idelity of their administration as the
tockholdeds may require. Whenever by |
vote of two-thirds of the stock, the |
dissolution OF this corporation is Je-
ired, same shall be dissolved before the |