The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-19
ARTICLE II.

Pl1R | A HUN OORI AIN L, tAld .iNNi
said name said corporation shall have
authority to enjoy. succession for ninety
nine wears from and after the date
hereof; to contract, sue and be sued;
make and use corporate seal; hold,
receive, lease, charter, purchase and
sell. as well 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 we'll as alter, such bylaws as
may be deemed proper
ARTICLE II.
The dolnicile. 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 Ill
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 a 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
Is hereby fixed at the sum of one hum
dred thousand ($1oo.ooo.oo) dollars
divided into four thousand shares OF
the par value of twenty five ($25.oo)
dollars each, TO be issued at not less
than par, for cash or for property ac-
tually received or purchased by the cor
poration; the corporation, however, ma,
begin business and become a going con
cern whenever four hundred and eighty
(A2o) shares of its stock has been Sub
scribed and 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 (7)s stockholders; sale
Stockholders shall Be elected annual.
m the first Monday in September o
each year, at a meeting of the stock
holders. which shall be held at the OF
lice of the company, Shreveport, Louis
Llama. after ten days notice in any on
of the newspapers published in the Cit
Iof Shreveport. Each share of stock shal
HE entitled to one vote, and the major
litv of tn. stock present and voting a
ls,ch meetings shall elect. Stock ma
lbe voted at all meetings either by tn
Iowner in person or by proxy. The hrs
board of directors, hereinafter named
) or any board of directors that may b
heeafter elected by the stakeholder
shall remain in Office until their success
sors are elected. Any vacancy occtrrin
in the board of directors shall be file
: BY the remaining directors. The fir'
hoard of directors of said corporation
which shall continue in Office until I'll
first Monday in September 1910, or III
It'll their successors shall have bee
. elected, are hereby declared to be + i
Lee. ]. B. Ards, C. d. Kalmbach, v
.IT. Crawford, w. K. Hendersos, Sc.
: mour Florsheim and H. M. Well. II
/. directors shall elect the officers of Il
icorporation. and until the first Monds
lin September 1910 or until their sti
: Icessors shall have been elected, the o
6cers of said corporation shall be
i follows: F. d. Lee, president; J
/ Ards. vice president; c. D. Kalmbac
secretary-treasurer The board OF
{ rectors shall appoint and remove at al
:, time such agents and employees as mi
n be necessary in the conduct Of the BIZ
mess of the corporatious shall ma
Il such necessary bylaws as they may $
e proper for the management of the bu
d mess, with full power to manage al
e control all vessels owned, run, leas
Z Tor chartered; to engage such vessels
: TRADE or to lay up such boats and "
II sells or any of them, as they may
proper; and TO sell such boats as t
: company may purchase and TO acqu
Iothers, all on such terms and tor 81
i. lnrices and on such conditions as