The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-28
ARTICLE II.

ton shall be SHRENEHORl lNANo-
PORTATION COMPANY, and under
said name said corporation shall have
authority to enjoy succession for ninety
nine years from and after the date
hereof: to contract, sue and be sued;
make and use a corporate seal; hold,
receive, lease, charter, purchase and
sell, as we'll 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 and
officers as its interests may require, and
make, as well as alter, such bylaws as
may be deemed proper.
ARTICLE II.
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
nature of the business to be carried on
are 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
| mess connected with the running, char
tering 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
express, with the further right to carry
on such things as are incident to the
conduct of said business.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of this corporation
lis herebx fixed at the sum of one hun
dred thousand (S1oo,ooo.oo) dollars
divided into four thousand shares OF
| the par value of twenty-five ($25.oo)
1 dollars each, to be issued at not less
4 than par, for cash or for property ac-
tua11y received or purchased by the cor
iporation; the corporation, however, may
begin business and become going con
Germ whenever four hundred and eighty
(48o) shares of its stock has been Sub
scribed ard paid for in cash or in prop
erty, as above provided.
ARTICLE V.
The powers of this corporation shall
be vested in a board of directors com
posed of seven % stockholders; SAT-
. stockholders shall be elected annual.
on the first Monday in September o
! leach year, at meeting of the stock
holders, which shall be held at the OF
fee of the company, Shreveport, Louis
lana. after ten days notice in any on
{ of the newspapers published in the Git
!, lof Shreveport. Each share of stock sha
! be entitled to one vote, and the major
ity of the stock present and voting a
such meetings shall elect. Stock ma
Ibe voted at all meetings either by tn
owner in person or by proxy. The hrs
board of directors, hereinafter named
Tor any board OF directors that may B
4 heeafter elected by the stakeholder
shall remain in office until their succe'
sors are elected Any vacancy occurrin
:, lin the board of directors shall be file
i by the remaining directors. The tr
Z board of directors of said corporatio
I'LL which shall continue in Office until Il
, first Monday in September 1910, or Vi
! It'll their successors shall have bee
i elected, are hereby declared to be F.
n Lee, ]. B. Ards, c. D. Kalmbach, Y
s.IT. Crawford, w. K. Hendersos, Sc
:. mour Florsheinl and H. M. We'll. 4
q directors shall elect the officers Of t
h corporation, and until the first Mond
I lin September 1910 or until their ST
cessors shall have been elected, the c
Ulcers of said corporation shall be
= follows. F. d. Lee, president; J
Ards. vice president; c. D. Kalmba'
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. The board OF
rectors shall appoint and remove at a
OF time such agents and employees as m
M be necessary in the conduct of the bl
mess of the corporation; shall ma
10 such necessary bylaws as they may
lie proper for the management OF the b
be mess, with full power to manage 9
es- control all vessels owned, run, lea
lde or chartered; to engage such vessels
Nv, trade or to lay up such boats and Y
sells or any OF them, as they may
ell, proper; and to sell such boats as
Of company may purchase and to acqr
|, others, all on such terms and for s.
TX lprices and on such conditions as