The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-04-11
CHARTER
OF 4HE MCWlLLIAMS YNERY
AND TRANSFER CON-
RANXs IIMIYER

i
|R. D. WSbb, a notary public duly com
missioned and sworn, in and dor tn
Parish of Caddo, State Of Louisiana, per
sonally came ond appeared TIN partie
whose names are hercunto subscribed
all Of full age, who declared that avail
ling themselves of the provisions of tht
laws of the StaA Of louisiana selativ'
to corporations and especially o! Ac
No. .36 OF 1888 Of the Genera sAssembly
of said State, they have covenanted an,
agreed, and by these presents covenan
and agrA and Bind themselves as wei
az such other persons as may hereafter
become associated with them, 70 form
and constitute a corporation and body
polite in Yaw, for the purposes and OBJ
| jects, and under the stipulations, articles
u,d conditions following, to-witS
ARTICLE ..
Tie name and title of the said cor
poration shall be "McWilliams Livery
and Transfer Company, Limited" and its
domicile is hereby established at Shreve-
port. Caddo Parish, louisiana and ,ln-
der its said corporate name it shall have
power and authority to contract, sue and
be sued, to make and use corporate seal
and the same to break and alter at pleas
ure; to hold, receive, have, improve,
convey, sell, borrow, pledge, mortgage
md hypothecate under its said corpor-
ate name, property, real, personal and
mixed and to name and appoint such Of
icers. managers and directors as the in
.erest or convenience of the corporation
may require; to make and establish such
bylaws, rules and regulations for the
management of its affairs as may be
1eenled necessary and proper, and the
same to change or alter at pleasure, and
10 do all other acts and things which
shall be necessary and proper to effect
The objects and purposes of this incor-
poration.
Under its said corporate name it shall
nave power and authority to enjoy sue
cession for period of nnety-nine years
from and after the date hereof
All citations and other legal process
shall be served on the president, and in
mis- absence upon the vice president, or at
The Office of the company according to
law.
ARTICLE II.
The object and purposes for which
his corporation is organized, and the
nature of the business to be conducted
by it, is as follows:
To conduct and carry on a general
livery, feed and sales stable and trans
ier business, and to do all things neces-
sary or convenient in furtherance there
of.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of said corporation
shall be thirty thousand dollars, divided
nto and represented by three hundred
shares of the sum of one hundred dol
lars each, which said stock shall be paid
for in cash at the time of the subscrip-
ion, or as the same may be issued at
not less than par, in payment or ex-
change for property actually received or
purchased by the said corporation, or for
such other consideration as the board Of
directors of said corporation may deter
mine.
Thi. corporation shall begin doing
business as soon as twenty thousand
1ollars of the capital stock shall have
been subscribed for.
No sale or transfer of the stock shall
be made by any stockholder of this COM
oany without his giving the company ten
days previous notice of his intention to
sell, and giving the corporation or its
members the preference of purchasing
the same, and no sale of the stock of this
company shall be binding or valid on the
company until the same has been trans
ferred on the books of the company, and
no transfer shall be made of the said
stock without the production Of the GER
;ifcates of stock.
ARTICLE ".
The affairs Of this corporation shall be
1nder the control and management of a
| BOARD of directors composed of three
stockholders of said company, who shall
be elected annually by the stockholders
1t general meeting to be held on the
:irst Monday in April of each year, who
shall hold their Office for the period o1
one year, or until their successors are
| luly elected and installed, and from said
| ,oard thus elected shall be elected its
I president, vice president and secretary
md treasurer, and in event of any va
cancy occurring in the board of directors
he same shall be filled by the remain
ing members of said board of director:
electing a stockholder to fill the unex
oired term of said vacancy. The frs
board of directors shall be A. M. Nc
Williams, who shalfsse president; M.
Murphy, who shall be5ice president, ahe
J. B. Harvey, who shan be secretary ane