The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-13
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER
OF the Shreveport Blow Pipe and Sheet
Iron Works, Limited

HOEidS y. DAIiot, d lIotdIy p'lDliA, uuiy
commissioned and qualified. IN and for
the Parish and State aforesaid and III
the presence of the witnesses hereinafter
named and undersigned. personally came
and appeared c. L. Campbell, of the
full age of majority and a resident of
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, acting herein
as chairman, and S. G. Wolfe, also of
age and of same residence, acting as sec
rotary of a special meeting Of the stock
holders of the Shreveport Blow Pipe
and Sheet Iron Works Limited, cor
poration duly organized under the laws
of the State of Louisiana and dolniciled
in the City of Shreveport-the said ap
bearers acting i'll their aforesaid capac-
ity, declared:
That in compliance with the provis
ions of the charter of said corporation
and of the laws of the State of Iona
lana, in such cases provided, special
meeting of the stockholders OF the
Shreveport Blow Pipe and Sheet Iron
Works Limited, Washed at its Offices
in the City of Shreveport Louisiana. on
the 27th day of January A. D. 1909, for
the purpose of amending Article V Of
said charter, as will appear from a Ger
tilted copy of the minutes Of said meet
ing hereto annexed and made part here
Of; and,
The said appearers further declared
that it was unanimously resolved by a
! vote Of all the stock present and rep
resented at said meeting that Article V
of the charter of the Shreveport Blow
Pipe and Sheet Iron Works Limited,
heretofore reading as follows, to-wit:
PARTICLE V.
The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at ten thousand dollars
($lo,ooooo), to be divided into two
hundred (2oo) shares of the par value
of being fifty dollars ($5ooo) each, and
the company is authorized to begin bus
mess when one hundred (Ioo) shares
are subscribed for and their par value
paid into the treasury of the company
in cash or its equivalent when sub-
>cribed for, or the stock may be issued
at not less than its par value for prop
erty purchased, and the said capital
stock may be increased to twenty-five
thousand dollars ($25,ooooo) in the
manner provided by the laws of the
State, as set forth in Act No. 14o of the
Acts of the General Assembly Of the
State of Louisiana, passed in 1898, or as
the same may be hereafter amended, y
shall be changed and amended so as -
read as follows, to-wit:
PARTICLE V.
The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at one hundred thousand
dollars ($1oo,ooo.oo), to be divided into
one thousand (1ooo) shares of the par
value of one hundred dollars ($1oo.oo)
each, and the said stock may be issued
at not less than its par value for prop
erty purchased. ;"
Now, therefore, in order to carry out
the objects and purposes of said stock
holders meeting and to clothe said
amendment in proper form, the said ap-
bearers do now and hereby formally
declare and make known that the orig
inal act of incorporation of the Shreve-
port Blow Pipe and Sheet Iron Works
Limited has been changed and amended
in the manner and form and to the ex-
tent heretofore set forth, and that they
do hereby authorize and request that the
foregoing act of amendment may be re.
corded and published according OF law
Thus done and passed in my Office in
the City of Shreveort, Caddo Parish
Louisiana, on the day and in the month
and year herein first above written, in
the presence of w. w. Smith and Leon
r. Smith, competent witnesses, who
have signed these presents with the said
appearers and ME, notary, after due
reading of the whole
c. L. CAMPBELL.
| S. G. WOLFE.
Witness:
w. W. SMITH.
| LEON r. SMITH.
| THOMAS c. BARRETT,
Notary Public in and for Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana
State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
hereby certify that l have examined
the above and foregoing amendment to
the cl,a,+.r of the Shreveport Blow Pipe
and Sheet Iron Works Limited, and
finding nothing therein contrary to law
I hereby approve the same. Done and
signed officially by ME at the City OF
Shreveport, Louisiana, on this the 18th
day of February A. D. nineteen hundred
and nine (1ooo).
J. M. FOSTER,
District Attorney First Judicial District