The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-04-15

this corporation is organized and the ma
. ture of the business to be carried on BY
1t are declared to be: To conduct and
carry on a business of wholesale grocer
and commission merchants.
ARTICLE Ill
The capital stock OF this corporation
shall be twenty-five thousand doiar@
($25 100000. divided into and represent
ed by two hundred and fifty shares
ESQ of the par value OF one hundred
dollars ($Ioo.oo) each, which stock shall
be paid for i'll cash or iii property. rights
and credits actually received by said
corporation at time OF subscription or
when called for by the board OF dlrec-
tors of this corporation, provided that
no stock shall be issued until the con-
sideration therefor has been received by
said corporation This corpOi dt1on IS
authorized to commence business when
fifteen thousand (SI5,ooo.Oo) dollars Of
the stock shall have been subscribed and
paid for.
ARTICLE ".
| The corporate powers OF said corpOr-
alton shall be vested in and exercised by
board Of directors of three CD stock
holders. The following persons shall
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viz: w. F. Taylor, J. II Jordan and
c. L. Nelson, with w F. Taylor as
president and e. L. Nelson as secrc-
tary and treasurer. The said officers and
directors shall hold their Office until the
second day of January A. ID ,Iolo or
until their successors shall have been
duly elected and qualified. On the said
day of January 1910, and annually
thereafter a board Of directors shall be
elected, unless said date shall be legal
holiday, in which event the first legal
day thereafter Notice of the said cleo
ton shall be given by ten days notice
sent by mail to each stakeholder The
board of directors shall appoint one or
more stockholders to preside at such
election. Any failure, from any cause
whatever. to hold such meetings or to
elect said board of directors on the day
named for that purpose. shall not dis
solve said corporation, but the directors
and officers then in Office shall hold over
until their successors are chosen and
qualified. At every election and stock
holders meeting each stockholder shall!
be entitled to one vote for each share OF
stock registered on the books of the cor
poration in his name. Votes may be i'll
person or by proxy authorized in writ
ing. After each election the board Of
directors shall elect from their number
the above named officers
ARTICLE V.
This charter may be changed. altered
Or amended Except to increase or de-
crease the capital stock) or the corpora
ton may be dissolved at general meet
ing convened for that urpose, with the
assent of three fourths go of the
capital stock of this corporation repre-
scented at such meeting Ten days prior
notice of such meeting shall be given by
publication as herein provided for. In
case of the dissolution of the corpora
ton by limitation Or otherwise, its af-
fairs shall be liquidated by three COM
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the stockholders, at a meeting called, |
after due notice, for this purpose.
No stakeholder shall ever be held |
liable or responsible for the faults Or
contracts of the corporation in any fur
ther sum than the unpaid balance due
the corporation on the shares of stock |
subscribed for Or owned by him, nor
shall any informally in organization
have the effect of rendering this charter
null or exposing a .tockholder to any |
liability beyond the amount of his stock.
Done and passed at my Office in said |
Parish in the presence OF W. Fl. Wise
and S. o. Williams, competent wit
nesses, who signed these presents to-
gether with said apearers and me. no
tary. after due reading of the whole.
w. F. TAYLOR.
c. l.. NELSON.
J. H. JORDAN.
HERMAN LOEB.
S. J. HARTMAN.
r. Fl RANDOI PHI.
r. A. GRAY.
R. r. EMERY.
r. II. GRAY
S. S. HUNTER.
Attest:
w. H. WISE.
S. O. WILLIAMS.
A. 3. FREYER. |
Notary Public Caddo Parish Louisiana |
State of Louisiana Parish of Caddo: |