The southern sentinel., 1906-12-21
ACT OF INCORPORATION
OF the Winfield Ice Company.

ACT OF INCORPORATION
OF the Winfield Ice Company.
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
Parish Of winn.
Be it known and remembered, that on the |
9th day of November, One Thousand, Nine |
Mathews, q Notary Public duly commissioned
and qualified in and for the Parish of Winn,
and in the presence of the undersigned legal
persons whose names are hereunto subscribed
who severaIly declared that, availing them
selves of the laws OF Louisiana relative to corpo
by these presents do covenant and agree and
form themselves into q corporation for the
objects and purposes, and under the stipula-
expressed. which they hereby adopt as their
Charter, to-wit:
ARTICLE 1.
The name and title of this corporation shall
be "wINNFIELD ICE COMPANY" and un-
authority TO continue and exist for period
Of ninety-nine years from the date hereof;
to contract; to sue and be sued; to make and
alter & pleasure; to hold. lease, receive, pur-
chase, convey, alienate, borrow, pledge, mort
gage and hypothecate under its corporate
name property real and personal or mixed; TO
managers, agents and employees as the inter-
est and convenience of said corporation may
require; to make and use such bylaws, rules
and regulations for the proper management OF
its affairs as may be deemed necessary and
proper, and the same to reasonably change
st pleasure; and 70 do all other acts and
things permitted by law such may be
necessary and proper 70 carry out The objects
and purposes for which this corporation Is
organized.
ARTICLE 2.
The domicile Of the said corporation is here
by fixed and established ut Winnheld, Wlnn
Parish, Louisiana. The president, or in his
absence the vice-president, shall be the office
upon whom citation anil all legal process shall
be served. The officers OF this corporation
shall be Q president. secretary and treasurer,
hut the Offices OF the secretary and treasurer
| may be filled by one and the same person.
| porntion and shall be elected annually by the
board Of directors and shall serve until their
| successors are elected; however, said officers
shall be subject to removal at any time oy the
board Of directors for good cause shown.
| ARTICLE 8.
The objects and purposes for which this cor
/ poration is organized and the business to be
carried on by It are declared to be the follow
| FL build and operate an ice plant and o bot
1 Ting works plant in the town OF Winnfeld;
\ to manufacture ice and sell the same at whole
sale or retail; to manufactnre and sell eitnsr
| water, carbonated drinks and everything else
4 handled or made by q bottling works plant; 10
carry on and do general cold storage buslnessi
| to buy and sell either at wholesale or retri all
| kinds Of fuel; and to do every other act or
1 thing necessary TO carry on the business for
which this corporation Is organized.
ARTICLE 4.
The capital stock Of this corporation shall
1 be Fifty Thousand Dollars, divided into and
represented by Five Hundred shares OF One
Hundred Dollars each, and as soon as one
hundred and fifty shares have been subscribed
for this corporation II Is authorized 70 Degin
' ARTICLE S.
The corporate powers OF this corporation
shall be vested In . board OF directors to be
stockholders in said corporation. majority of
whom shall constitute quorum. The STOCK
holders shall hold regular annual meetings,
the time fog which shall be nxed S ey sid sns as e
nual meetings the stock holders shall transact
any business coming before them and shall
elect board Of directors for me ensuing my year, ar
gAnixe by electiRg from their board tne omcers
of said corporation as already named. The
FIRST board q directors shall DC ha Sona noea =
Fletcher and ]. IL. Wilder, who shall hoio
ONCE until their SUCCESSORS are elected,
it being specially understood that the tai.uIe ,
on the part Of the stockholders to hold their
regular annual meeting and TO elect new
board Of directors, shall in no way anect the
corporate acts of this corporation, the old
board always holding over untn the new
board is elected and organized
IN ali elections each stockhclder shall be en-
titled to one vote for each share Of stock owned
person or by proxy, and majority or the votes
cast shali elect. In case of vacancy IN SAID
board, caused by death, resignation or other
wise, said vacancy shall be hiied for the un-
expired term by the said board
fhe board OF directors shall make such by
laws and regulations as may be necessary ror
the proper management OF the affairs OF this
corporation, and shall amend and change the
same a. they see proper, and ahall have power
70 provide for and contract debts. borrow
money, issue bonds, drafts, notes. accepfances,
execute mortgages and to do all other things
corporation. and shall have authority to vest
the president or general manager or both Of
them with such OF these powers as they see fit.
ARTICLEe 8.
This charter may be changed, amended or
Dissolved by two-thirds vote of the stockholders
e a.; meeting called LED ; for that purpose Should %
stockholders its affairs shall be liQuidafed b.
the board Of directors as q liquidating bpard.
ARTICLE z.
Shares of stock can only be transferred by
having the transfer recorded on the books OF
ths corporation and no transfer Of stock can
shall first have been paid.
ARTICLE 8.
The president, or IN his inability to act, the
vfce-president shall give each shareholder ten
days notice tn writing through the mail before
s a Pee sys noaes sh
siyen unless any stockholder Is present and
valves such notice
Any irrugularity or informality in the or
fkis c6srtsr nrIi and void, and no subscriber
- DtockAoldeg shall - liable TO this corpora
HollIsTER's.
|oeky LouIli1in Ice IQggois