The southern sentinel., 1906-12-21
ACT OF INCORPORATION
OF the Lands, Lumber and Manu-.
featuring Company, Limited.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
OF WINN. ee

Iacturing company, Limited.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
PARISH OF wINN.
Be it known and remembered: That on this
the 10th day of December One Thousand Nine
Hundred and Six, before me Harry +. Gamble,
q notary public duly commissioned and quali-
fed in and for the Parish of winn, and in the
presence of the undersigned legal witnesses.
personally came and appeared the persons
whose names are hereunto subscribed, who sew
orally declare that, ayailing themselves of the
laws of Louisiana relative to corporations. they
have coyenanted and agreed and by these pres
ents do covenant and agree and form them
selves into a corporation, for the objects and
purposes and under the stipulations and agree
ments hereinafter set forth and expressed,
which they hereby adopt as their Charter, to-
wit:
ARTIcLE ONE.
The name and title of this corporation shall
be LANDS, LUMBER AND MANUFACTURING CON-
TANY, LIMITED, and under its corporate name
shall have power to continue and exist for
period of ninety-nine yeas from the date
hereof; to contract. to sue and be sued; to
make and use a corporate seal and the same to
break and alter at pleasure; to hold, lease, re-
pledge, mortgage and hypotheeate under its cor
porate name property real, personal and mixed;
to name and appoint such officers, directors,
managers, agents and employees as the inter-
est and convenience of the corporation may re-
quire; to make.and use such bylaws, rules and
regulations for the proper management of its
and the same to reasonably change at pleas
ure: and to do all other acts and things per-
mitted by Law. or such as may be necessary and
proper TO carry out the objects and purposes
Tor which this corporation is organized.
ARTICLE TWO.
The domicile ..of this corporation Is hereby
fixed and established at WINFIELD, Winn Par
ish Louisiana. The president, or in his abb
sence the vice president, shall be the officer
upon whom citation and all legal process shall
| be served.
The oficers Of this corporation shall be
prer, but the efifees Of secretary and treasurer
may be filed by one and the same person. The
secretary and treasurer, II the board of direc-
tors shall so require, shall give bond in such
sums as said board shall determine. Said off,
GERS shall be stockholders in said corporation
| and shall be elected annually by the board of
directors, and shall serve until their successors
are elected; however said officers shall be SUBJ
iect to removal at any time by said board of
directors for good cause shown.
ARTICLE THREE.
The objects and purposes for which this cor
carried on by It are declared to be the follow
/ ing, to-wit:
TO build and operate sawmill and planning
p,anr M n nds na da sanb 70 hIna
and all kinds Of novelties anst building mate
rial, and sell the same either at wholesale OF
/ retail; to buy and sell, either at wholesale OF
ct retail. all kinds of lumber and forest prod
1 nets; to acquire own and hold lands, buildings
and machinery necessary or the operation OF
this plant. and to acquire and own timber and
timber lands; and to do every other act ol
thing necessary to carry on the business foI
which this corporation is organized.
i ARTICLE rom.
The capital stock OF this corporation shall be
Fifty Thousand Dollars, divided and repre-.
sented by five hundred shares of one hundred
dollars each, and as soon as fifty shares have
been subscribed for this corporation is author
lied to begin business
/ ARTICLE FIVE.
The corporate powers of this corporation
shall be vested in q board of directors, to be
composed of three persons, all of whom mnsi
be stockholders in said corporation, majority
of whom shall constitute quorum. The stock
holders shall hold regular annual meetings, the
date for which shall be fred by the bylaws oi
said corporation At these annual meetings
the stockholders shall transact any business
coming bfeore them and shall elect board of
directors for the ensuing year, which said
newly elected board shall at once organize by
telecting from their number the officers of said
Corporation as already named.
The first board of directors shall be: @. II.
/ Elliott, j, A. Nesom, VILLA Strong, who shall
hold Office until their successors are elected, ii
being specially understood that the failure on
the part of the stockholders to hold their regu-
1 lar annual meeting and to elect new board of
directors, shall in no wise affect the corporate
acts OF this corporation, the old board always
holding over until the new board is elected and
| In all elections each stockholder shall be en-
/ Titled to vote Tor eac1 snare OF STOCK owned
by him. and these votes must BE- cast by him
in person or by proxy, and majority OF the
votes cast shall elect.
| The board of directors shall make such by
laws and regulations as may be necessary for
the proper management of the affairs of this
corporation, and shall amend and change the
same as they see proper, anu shall alba, have power
money, issue bonds, drafts, notes, acceptances,
execute mortgages and do all other things in
cldent to the objects and purposes of this cor
/ NOR lnn a Tfn m Pa m
| to vest the president or other officers and man
/ ayers of such with these powers as they see ut.
ARTICLE SIX.
This charter may be changed, amended or
dissolved by two thirds vote of the stockhold-
ers at meeting called for that purpose.
Should this corporation be dissolved by a
vote of its stockholders its affairs shall be liq-
Undated by the board of directors as liquidat-
/ ing board,
| ARTICLE sKvEs.
shares of stock can only be transferred by
| having the transfer recorded on the books Of
the corporation, and no transfer of stock can
be made until any unpaid balance thereon
shall have first been paid
ARTICLE EIGHT
| The president. or in his absence or inability
to act, the ce-president shall give each
shareholder ten days notice in writing through
stockholders, and at all call meetings three
days notice shall be given in the same man
ner, unless any stakeholder Is present and
valves such notice.
Any irregu1arity or informality In the organ
ixation OF this corporation shall not render
this charter null and void. and no subscriber
or stockholder shall ever be held liable to this
corporation or its creditors beyond the amount
Of the stock subscribed by him.
| This done and passed in the presence of T.
81 colvin and II. G. Little. two competent
Witnesses, and me, said Notary, on the day
and date first above written
Name No. Shares
G. b. Elliott 80
IT, A. Nesom.-.-..--.-.....--- 5
win A. Strong
John III Mathews