The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-01
cHARTR
OF THE ELOUISIANA-TEXAS NAT
URAL GAS COMPANY.

URAL GAS COMPANY.
| State of Louisiana, Parish 81 Iaddo
| Be it remembered that on the 22nd day
of March 1909, before me, Albert J..
Alexander, notary public, personally
came and appeared S. S. Hunter, w. B
Mccormick, w. H. Sedberry % Mar
shall, Texas, and J. D. Wilkerson, res
idents of said parish and State, and w.
II. Hunter, resident of the Parish OF
Acadia, who stated and declared to me
notary that availing themselves of the
| Constitution and laws of the State OF
Louisiana relating to the formation OF
corporations, they have formed and do
| by these presents form and constitute
themselves, as we'll as such other per-
sons as may hereafter become associated
with them into corporation and body
corporate. and have adopted as their
charter the following, to-wit:
ARTICLE ].
The name of this corporation shall be
the LOUISIANA-TEXAS NATURAL
IGAS COMPANY. with its domicile at
the City of Shreveport, i'll the Parish of
Caddo, louisiana and under its cor
pcrate name it shall have and enjoy sue
cession for period Of fifty years, un-
| less sooner dissolved as hereinafter pro-
vided. All legal process shall be served
ON the president, or in his absence on
the vice president. or in the absence OF
both. on the secretary and treasurer.
ARTICLE H.
The objectsApf this corporation and
the purposes for which it is formed are
hereby declared to be to own. acquire,
Irill. lease or obtain gas lands or gas
wells in the State of Louisiana or else
where, and to construct, maintain. own
and operate pipe lines or condaits for
the purpose Of piping or transmitting
natural gas to points in the State of
| Louisiana or to points in the State of
Texas, and particularly to the City Of
Marshall IN said State of Texas, or to
;uch other points as may be selected by
n. hoard Of directors, and to that end
20 acquire, lease or own such real estate
'r other property or right of way as
may he necessary to effcctually carry
,ut its purposes.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corporation
is fixed at the sum of three hundred
thousand dollars, divided into three
thousand shares of the par value of one
hundred dollars each, and it shall be-
come fully organized and be authorized
10 do business whenever its capital stock
lis fully subscribed for, and one-third
thereof is paid in full But no stock
shall issue until the sum is fully paid
md may be issued for cash, for labor
or for property received at valuation
10 be fixed by the board of directors.
| ARTICLE ~.
| The affairs of this corporation shall
De managed and directed by a board o.
directors consisting of FIVE stockholder!
who shall be elected annually at gen
!. eral stockholders meeting called for tina
purpose on the first Monday in Apri
If each year, and the said stockholders
so elected shall elect their own officer
md shall hold their Office until their sue
lcessors are duly elected and installed
/ Until the election on the first Monda,
lin April 1910 the following shall com
i, pose the board of directors of this cor
poration, to-wit: W. B. Mccormick
: who shall be president; w. H. Hunter
who shall be vice president; S. S. Hun
tier. who shall be secretary-treasurel
and w. H. Sedberry and J. D. VIII
lkerson. Any vacancy in said board c
directors shall be filled by the remainin
directors electing stockholder for tn
unexpired term.
ARTICLE V.
"HcIlSScI tIIS NOipOIdtIOu IL aIs
solved by limitation or otherwise, j
affairs shall be liquidated by two pei
sons selected for that purpose at
stockholders meeting duly held, an
said liquidators shall perform such sci
IS vices and give such security a. sal
5 1stockhoders may determine.
Il ARTICLE vi.
dl This act of incorporation may
# n,ended and the capital stock increase
1t or diminished or this corporation ma
e he dissolved by vote OF three, forrti
jnf its stockholders in amount at
stockholders meeting called tor th
purpose in accordance with the Jaws
the State of Louisiana, aud AZ all Sfocl
holders meetings eaen share (Of stot
shall be entitled TO one vote'to BE- ca
Iby its owner either in Ipsrson o. I
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