The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-07-06
ceived by the said corporation.
ARTICLE V.


poration shall be vested in aNd exer-
dsed by a board of directors, to be
composed of seven % Stockholders,
each of whom must be the owner of at
least ten (Io) shares of the capital stock
of said company, who shall be elected
annually on the second Thursday of
May of each year. All such elections
shall be by ballot and conducted at the
office of said corporation under the SUI
}perintendence of three commissioners,
to be appointed by the board of direc-
tors, and of which election ten days
prior notice shall be given in one or
more newspapers published in the cities
of Leesville, State of Louisiana, and
Kansas City, State of Missouri, and
each stakeholder shall be entitled to one
vote for each share of stock standing in
his name on the books of the company,
to be cast by proxy Or in person, and
ma ority of votes shall elect. All vacan-
cies occurring among the directors by
death, resignation or otherwise, shall be
filled for the remainder of the year by
the remaining directors; a failure to
elect directors on the day above speci-
fed shall not dissolve the corporation,
but the directors then in Office shall re-
main in Office until their successors are
elected and qualified, and shall cause to
be had another election as soon as pos
sible thereafter, aften ten days prior
notice thereof shall have been given in
one or more newspapers published in
the cities of Leesville, State of Louis
llama, and Kansas City, State of Mis-
souri. Said board of directors shall
have full power and authority to Dor
row money, execute mortgages, issue
notes, bonds or other obligations, &nd
generally to do all things necessaru for
the proper carrying on of the business
of the corporation, as also to issue and
deliver full paid shares of stocks or
bonds or obligations of said corporation
at not less than par, in payment of labor
done Or money borrowed, or property
or rights actually received by said cor
poration; and to acquire and sell inven-
tons and letters patent pertaining to its
business, or license to use such inven-
tons and letters patent
ARTICLE VI. 81
The following named persons, to-wit
]. M. Gore, J. D. Justice, W. B. Betty,
F. S. Love, H. NJ. Harrison, S. G. War
ner and S. P. Shope, have been chosen
and selected as the first board of direc- |
tors of said company, to serve as such |
until the first annual meeting or as here
III provided for, to-wit, the second |
Thursday in May, nineteen hundred and |
four, or until their successors have been
elected.
J. NJ. GORE.
F. S. LOVE.
Witness: w. B. BETTY.
B. E. LINE.
G. A. JOHNSON.
Thus done and passed in my Office in
said city of Kansas City, State of Mis-
souri,, in the presence of Messrs. B. E.
Line and G. A. Johnson, competent wit
neses of lawful age, both of this city,
who hereunto sign their names with
said appearers, and myself, a commits
sioneT, on the day and date aforesaid.
H. R. LEAVENS,
Commissioner for the State of Louis
lana in Missouri.
Endorsed: Filed and recorded Nav
g, 1909. F. A. LEONARD,
Clerk and ex-Officio Recorder.
(Recorded in Conveyance Book 80,
page 262, of the records of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana.)
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo:
hereby certify that the above and fore
going is true and correct copy of the
original act, as the same now appears
on file and of record in my office. Given
under my hand and seal of Office this
27th day of May 1909.
A. S. HARDIN,
Deputy Clerk and ex-Oficio Deputy Re-