The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-11-02
ARTICLE II.

The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be SHREVEPORT TRANS
PORTATION COMPANY, and under
said name said corporation shall have
authority to enjoy succession Tor ninety
nine wears from and after the date
hereof; to contract, sue and be sueo
make and use a corporate seal; hold
receive, lease, charter, purchase ana
sell. as well as mortgage and convey
real and personal property; operate
steamboats,, vessels and other vehicles
for the transportation OF freight pas
sengers, mail, etc, by water; name and
appoint such managers, directors ana
officers as its interests may require, and
make, as we'll as alter, such bylaws as
may be deemed proper.
ARTICLE IL
The domicile of said corporation shall
be in the City of Shreveport, Caddo
Parish. Louisiana, and citation and
other legal service shall be made upon
the president, Or in his absence, upon
the vice president or secretary.
/ ARTICLE III.
| The objects and purposes for which
said corporation is established and the
mature of the business to be carried on
lare to procure and maintain sufficient
number of steamboats, or other vessels
for the transportation of freight, pas
] sengers. mail, ETC., for compensation.
and the transaction of any and all BUS
illness connected with the running, char
tttering and maintaining one or more
lines of steamboats, from the City OF
Shreveport to any and all points on the
Mississippi and Red rivers or their
tributaries, and the creation of freight
: Eexpress, with the further right to carry
t on such things as are incident to the
conduct of said business.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of this corporation
lis hereby fixed at the sum of one hun
dred thousand ($Ioo,ooo.oo1 dollars
!. divided into four thousand shares o
the par value of twenty five, ($25.oo.
dollars each, to be issued at not les
than par, for cash or for property &C
ItuaIly received or purchased by the cor
poration; the corporation, however, ma
begin business and become going con
I. lcern whenever four hundred and eight
- (A8oY shares of its stock has been sub
> lscribed ana paid for in cash or in prop
u terty, as above provided.
- ARTICLE V.
: The powers of this corporation sha
- be vested in board of directors con
posed of seven % stockholders; sal
stockholders shall be elected annual
!. on the first Monday in September
each year, at meeting of the stool
holders, which shall be held at the o
- lice Of the company, Shreveport, Lou
- lana, after ten days notice in any OF
: of the newspapers published IN the u
- Iof Shreveport. Each share of stock shs
= The entitled to one vote, and the maJo
- Iity of the stock present and voting
$, such meetings shall elect. Stock mi
- lbe voted at all meetings either by t
.lowner in person or by proxy. The nj
80 board of directors, hereinafter name
or any board of directors that may
lheeafter elected by the stockholde
shall remain in Office until their succt
of| sors are elected. Any vacancy occurri
,U lin the board of directors shall be NIL
by the remaining directors. The ii
= board of directors of said corporate
2e- which shall continue in Office until
I'D first Monday in September 1910, or I
,;dltiI their successors shall have be
he elected, are hereby declared to be +.
SediLee, ]. B. Ards, c. D. Kalmbach,
,,sdtT. Crawford, w. K. Hendersos, s
mour Florsheim and H. M. Well. ]
-a directors shall elect the officers OF
&c cornoration. and until the first None
lin September 1910 or until their
~ Icessors shall have been elected, the
Ulcers of said corporation shall be
follows: F. D. Lee, president; ].
,,,r+ Ards. vice presidert; C. D. Kalmbs
;,,c-l secretary-treasurer. The board OF
rectors shall appoint and remove at
time such agents and employees as I
tss Ebe necessary in the conduct of the
aid mess of the corporation; shall m
helsuch necessary bylaws as they may
fed Iproper for the management of the
o,c- Iiness, with full power to manage
control all vessels owned, run, le;
.,a or chartered; to engage such vessel
III. trade or TO lay up such boats and
sells or any of them, as they may
proper; and to sell such boats as
,er,x company may purchase and to acq
Others, all on such terms and for 1
1 prices and on such conditions as