The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-01-08
ARTICLE II.

to manufacture all kinds of grain pro
ducts, to buy and lease and to erect ant
conduct elevators and mills in any par
Of the United States, to export grain O
all kinds, to own and lease land or any
thing else that might become necessar,
TO the conducting of this business; Il
manufacture grain products anywhere il
| might be to the interest of the company
TO conduct general commission grail
business or do anything else pertaining
10 the grain business.
The domicile of this corporation is
hereby fixed and declared to be the City
If Shreveport in Caddo Parish, State oi
/ Louisiana. All legal services, such as
citations and other writs of legal process
hall be served upon the president, vice
president, and in their absence upon any
| # the other directors Of the corporation
| t their Office i'll the City of Shreveport
| according to law
ARTICLE III.
| The capital stock of this corporation is
| liked at two hundred and fifty thousand
| ($25o,ooo.oo) dollars divided into TWEEN
;y-hve hundred (25oo) shares at one
hundred ($Ioo) dollars each, and the
| corporation may begin business when
one hundred thousand ($Ioo, ,ooo.oo) dol
ars shall have been subscribed and paid
| in cash or its equivalent i'll property.
All transfers of stock to be valid and
binding shall be made upon the books OF
the corporation, and no transfer of stock
hall be valid unless parties holding such
stock for sale shall first offer the same
1t its market value at sss---,,ille offered
for sale; first to E. w. Iamiters ti1e,t>,~
!. L, Busbey, individually, fora period
o days, and i'll the event Hamiter, then
'usbey, decline to purchase the stock af
er expiratio nof said time named in
the article, then said stock shall be of
fered to the other individual stockhold
ers for a period of ninety days, and upon
their refusal to take the said stock at the
expiration of the time, then the same
may be offered to the general public at
any time thereafter and unless this pro-
vision is complied with, the transfer of
said stock shall not be valid In
case of the death of any stockholder,
hen the stock they hold in said corpor-
ton shall without reserve be offered to
he surviving members at its then mar
ct value for period of ninety days
ARTICLE ".
The corporate powers of this corpora
ion are hereby vested in a Board of
Directors, consisting of FIVE stockhold
rs. three of whom shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business.
The Board of Directors shall be elected
annually by ballot by the stockholders
If the corporation at a regular meeting
% be held on the first Monday of De-
cember of each year, beginning in the
year 1907; and the directors shall elect
5he other officers OF the corporation. The
president shall be and is vested with full
power by this act of incorporation to
:mploy and discharge all the labor and
employees as he may see fit. Until such
meeting be held and their successors
here elected be. qualified, the Board of
Directors shall be E w. Hamiter, ]. l..
Busbey, R. l. Holstorf, R. D. Anderson
and R. L. Anderson, with T. w. Ham
tier as president, ]. L. Busbey as vice
president and treasurer, and r. L. Hol-
ston as secretary. The Board of Direc-
| tors shall have authority to make all
necessary regulations and bylaws for
the conduct and government of the cor
| ooration, as well as to appoint such Of
icers, agents and employees as may be
considered proper to said board.
ARTICLE V.
At all meetings of the stockholders,
each share of stock shall be entitled to
| one vote, to be cast in person by the
holder or by proxy, and a majority OF
votes cast shall elect All meetings of
he stockholders, except the regular an
nual meeting, shall be notified 10 the
stockholders by written or printed no.
tices sent to the postofbcc address OF the
,tockholder by registered mail at least
ten days prior to such meeting.
ARTICLE VI.
This act OF incorporation may be
amended or altered or the corporation
dissolved by vote of threefourths in
amount OF the capital stock of said cor
poration at a special meeting to be
called for such purpose in the manner
hereinafter provided
ARTICLE VII.
Whenever this corporation is dis
solved, by limitation Or otherwise, its
affairs shall be administered and wound
up by two liquidators to be elected by
the stockholder$at meeting called for
that purpose in the manner provided in
this act. These liquidators shall con-
tinue in Office until the full liquidation
of affairs of the concern. In case Of the