The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-05-25
CHARTER
OF THE COLEMAN LUMBER
COMPANY LIMITED

State of Louisiana, Parish of .Caddo
Before me, L. G. Blanchard, notary
public duly commissioned and sworn for
and within the Parish Of Caddo, State
of Louisiana, personally came and APP
peared ]. NJ. Coleman, J. c. Bates and
I. V. Coleman, all residents of the Par
ish of Caddo, State of Louisiana, who
stated and declared to me, notary, that
availing themselves of the Constitution
and laws of the State of Louisiana, they
have formed and constituted themselves.
as we'll as such other persons as may
hereafter become associated with them,
into body corporate. and have adopted
and do hereby adopt as their act of in
corporation and charter, the following
ARTICLE /.
The name and title of this corporation
shall be the COLEMAN LUMBER
COMPANY LIMITED" with its DOM
icile in the City of Shreveport, Louis
lana, in Caddo Parish, and under said
corporate name it shall have and enjoy
succession for period of twenty five
years unless sooner dissolved as herein
specified.
ARTICLE II.
The purpose for which this corpora
ton is formed and its object Is hereby
declared to be to own and operate saw
mills, planning mills and other means for
manufacturing lumber in the State OF
Louisiana, and also to conduct general
wholesale lumber business, and to own
and acquire timber and timber lands
either by purchase, lease or otherwise,
and to conduct in connection with their
sawmills and lumber business, commits
saries, stores, and to own and operate
as incidental thereto tram roads, rail
roads or other means of transporting
logs or lumber or other property neces-
sary in the conduct and operation of the
said business of conducting general saw
mills and planning mills, with the right
to acquire such real estate or personal
as may be necessary therefor,
and the same to dispose of, mortgage,
hypothecate or pledge as may be neces-
sary in the successful operation of said
business
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock Of this corporation
IS hereby fixed at the sum of ten thous-1
and dollars, divided into one hundred
shares of one hundred dollars each, and
i shall become going concern when
fifty shares of its capital stock is SUBJ
scribed and actually paid for, which
payment may be made in cash or the
ransfer of property or the rendition Of
services to the said corporation, the
'alue of which shall be passed on and
lproved by the board of directors.
ARTICLEsIv.
The affairs of this corporation shall
,e managed and directed by board of
directors consisting OF three stockhold-
rs. who shall be elected at a general
stockholders meeting held at the Office
II the company in the City Of Shreve-
tort on the third Monday in May of
ZACH year. and who shall hold their of
ices until the next succeeding election
,r until their successors are elected
md qualified. Until the election on
he third Monday in May 1910. the fol-
owing shall constitute the board of di-
ectors and officers Of the company,
5iz.: j M. Coleman, who shall be pres
dent; ]. G.. Bates, who shall be vice
and T. v Coleman, who
hall be secretary and treasurer. The
aid board of directors shall have an-
hority to adopt all regulations and by
avs that may seem to them necessary,
md to name and oppoint such agents,
managers, clerks and other employees as
nay be necessary for the welfare Al the
III pOidtiOEls dAIu W ussttdA SC SnC odlIfC
IT pleasure. All legal process shall be
served on the president, or in his abb
ience on the vice president, at the Office
If the company in said Parish and State.
ARTICLE v.
This charter may be amended or al
cred or abolished. at vote OF three
.ourths of the stock at stockholders
meeting held for that purpose, after 80
lays public notice, as provided by law.
ind when dissolved. either by a vote of
he stockholders or by limitation, its af-
fairs shall be liquidated BY one or more
iquidators elected by the stockholders
it such general meeting, and who shall
yive bond and perform such duties as
nay be required, of them at the time of
said appointment. In all stockholders
meetings each stakeholder shall be en-
titled to one vote, either in person or by
written proxy, for each share Of stock
owned by him, and except as otherwise
provided by law, no other notice of