The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-17

officiate as both Secretary and Treas
urer, and each of said officers shall
perform the duties usually incumbent
upon such officers in corporations.
Until the first annual meeting OF the
stockholders of this Corporation, the
officers of this Corporation shall be
Fred D, Calkins, President, Samuel
6. Davis, Vice-PreSident and Lionel
Bertrand, Secretary and Treasurer,
which three shall constitute its first
Board of Directors, to serve until
their successors are elected at the an
nual meeting of stockholders on the
second Monday of June. 1908,
ARTICLE V.
The stockholders Of this Corporation
shall hold a regular annual meeting
on the second Monday of June, 1903,
and annually thereafter, at which
meetings they shall elect from among
the shareholders of this Corporation,
a Board of three Directors, and shall
consider such other business matters
as may come before them for consider
alton.
The President of this Corporation,
or in his absence, the Vice-President
shall preside at all meetings of the
Board of Directors and of the stock
holders.
Special meetings of the stockholders
may be held at any time, on the call
of the President, or upon the call of
any two Of the shareholders of this
Corporation, but no business shall be
transacted at any such special meet
ingS, except such as is named in the
notice calling said special meeting.
The Secretary shall give at least
ten days written notice to each share
holder of any regular annual, or spec
ial meetings of the stockholders, said
notice to be properly addressed to the
p0st0ftice, as given by said Sharehold-
er upon the stock books of this Cor
pOratiOn.
AT all meetings Of and elections by
shareholders, each shareholder shall
be entitled to cast in person or by
proxy, one vote for each share Of stock
held by him. All elections shall be
by ballot, requiring majority Of all
the stock voting to elect, and held I'M
der the supervision of two commission
erS, appointed by the Board of Direct
OrS, for that purpose, who shall re-
ceiye all the votes cast, canvass the
same, and declare the result of such
election.
ARTICLE VI.
Citation and all legal process shall
be served upon the President, or in
his absence upon the Vice-P President,
or, in the absence of both the Presi-
dent and Vice-President, upon the
Secretary or Treasurer.
ARTICLE VII.
This Charter may be amended or
this Corporation dissolved with the
assent of three-fourths of the stock
present or represented by written
proxy at any annual meeting of the
stockholders. or at any special meet
ing thereof, called for that purpose,
by complying with the provisions of
State Law, in case of amendment, and
in the ease of a dissolution. the stock
holders shall elect at least one and
not more than three liquidators, to
take charge Of the property and assets
of the Corporation, sell and dispose
of same under such terms as shall be
prescribed by the stockholders, and
liquidate its affairs in accordance
with such instructions as may be Civ
en- said liquidators by resolution of
the stockholders adopting them.
In case of the death or inability to
act of one or more of the liquidators,
the one or more remaining shall con-
tnue to act until the vacancy shall
have been filled by the stockholders.
ARTICLE VIII.
No stockholder of this Corporation
shall ever be held liable or response
BILE for the contracts or faults thereof,
in any further sum than the unpaid
balance due the company on the shares
of stock subscribed for or owned by
him, nor shall any informality in or
ganization have the effect of rendering
this Charter null, or of exposing a
stakeholder to any liability beyond
the unpaid balance, if any, OF his
| stock.
This done and passed at my Notori-
al office, in the Town of Welsh. Cal
casieu Parish, Louisiana, on this, the
twenty-sixth day of March, A. D.,
1907. in the presence of H. A. David
son and a. T. Jones, lawful witnesses,
residents of this Parish, who hereunto
sign their names, together with said
parties and me, Notary, after due
reading of the whole.
F. D. Calkins.
Lionel Bertrand.
S. G.. Davis.
vv;..o.,o,. ( H. A. Davidson.
''"e''o'' A. T. Jones.
Lee f. Robinson,
lSEAL) Notary Public.
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Calcasieu.
Before me, Lee E. Robinson, a Gully
commissioned and qualified Notary
Public, in and for the said Parish and
State, on this day personally came
and appeared, Fred d. CalkinS, Sam
uel C. Davis and Lionel Bertrand,
each of whom declared unto me, in the
presence of the hereinafter named wit
nesses, that they do hereby subscribe