The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-14

pOrat1On 1OT tne ODJeCIS ana pun uipooeo'
and under agreements and stlpulatlons
hereinafter set forth, which they adopt
as their charter.
ARTICLE I.
The name of this corporation shall be
THE SHREVEPORT ICE CREAM
FACTORY" with its domicile in the
City of Shreveport, in said Parish and
State, and under said corporate name
it shall have and enjoy succession for
period of fifty years, unless sooner
dissolved as hereinafter specified. All
legal process shall be served on the pres
ident, or in his absence, at the office of
the company, according to law.
ARTICLE II.
The object and purposes of this cor
poration is declared to be to rnanufac-
ture and sell at wholesale and retail
ice cream ices of all kinds, confection-
cries, and to buy and sell fruit, and such
other products as may BE deemed profit
able, and further any and everything
connected with or appertaining to such
business.
ARTICLE III.
This corporation shall have power to
contract, sue and to be sued; to make
and use a corporate seal and the same
to alter at pleasure; to hold, receive,
purchase, improve, ALLEVIATE, convey, sell,
borrow, pledge, mortgage and hypothe-
cate, under the corporate name, all
kinds of property, and to make and es-
Itablish such rules and regulations for
the proper management of the affairs
las it may deem necessary, and the same
to alter or change at pleasure; and to
enjoy all other privileges and immuni.
ties given by the laws of the State OF
Louisiana to corporations organized fol
Isimilar purposes.
/ ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of this corporation
lis hereby fixed at ten thousand dollar:
| ($Io,ooo.o COZ, divided into one hundred
| (Ioo) shares of one hundred ($Ioooo)
dollars each, payable at the time of it:
: issuance, in cash, property, or for serv
Ices performed, as the board of d1rec
tors may determine. No stockholde
shall sell OR transfer his stock until afte
Item days notice of such intention to sci
has been given to the president or vic
Ipresident of the company, during whicl
t time the remaining stockholders shal
have the first option to purchase sal
!, stock, it may be sold to other persons
5 but all transfers of stock must be mad
on the books of the company at IT
lofice. The corporation shall commenc
business as soon as three thousan
!, (S2ooo.oo) dollars shall have been sui
e Iseribed and paid.
: ARTICLE V.
E The corporate powers of the corpora
a ton shall be vested in board of diret
e tors composed of three stakeholder
: Iwho shall be elected annually on IL
S first Monday in September. The fir
d board of directors is declared to be
Draiss, S. S. Hunter and Charles Stoe
who shall serve until their successor
are chosen. Two members shall const
: Itute a quorum of the board of directo
/: for the transaction of business. The o
+ Ulcers of this corporation shall be pre-
N ident, vice president, secretary al
re Itreasurer, and the first of said Office
IS are declared to be P Draiss, presiden
l. J. H. Jordan, vice president; and P.
r McKittrick, secretary and treasurer, a
they shall serve until their successo
are chosen, and said officers shall
elected annually on the first Monday
September. A majority of the sto
;, present shall elect the directors, and
all elections or proceedings of stoc
holders each share of stock present
Represented by written proxy shall
he entitled to one vote Notice of all me
he, ings of stockholders shall be advertis
nd ten (Io) days in daily Shreveport
Ia, per. Failure to hold an election
in directors on the day named, shall
in dissolve the corporation, but the 1ncu
IN bent directors shall hold over until til
ms successors are duly elected and gu
ed, fled. Any vacancy in the board of dir
ing tors shall be filled by the remaining
ws rectors.
the ARTICLE VI.
ne This charter may be amended, or
bly, corporation may be dissolved at g
ear Ieral meeting of the stockholders c
leir Ivened for that purpose. after due