The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
CHARTER
OF THE CLOVER LEAF LUMBER
COMPANY

state OF LOulSldiid, I 1911 VI Ndo0O
Be it remembered, that on this the 18th
day of July, 1909, before me, A. D.
Land, Jr., notary in and for said par
ish and state, duly commissioned and
sworn, personally came and appeared
the parties whose names are hereunto
signed, who declared that availing them
selves of the provisions of the laws of
the State of Louisiana relative to the or
ganization of corporations, they do
hereby form and constitute themselves,
associates, and successors, into acor-
poration for the objects and purposes
hereinafter set forth, to-wit:
ARTICLE
The name and style of this corpora
ton shall be CLOVER LEAF LVM-
Der COMPANY, and its domicile is
hereby fixed at the City of Shreveport,
Louisiana, where all citations and other
legal process shall be served on the
| president, or in case of his absence or
disability, upon the vice-president or
secretary-treasurer.
ARTICLE II
The object for which this corporation
| is organized and the nature of the bust
ness to be carried on by it is hereby de-
clared to be to buy and sell lumber at
wholesale, to buy and sell timber lands,
to operate saw-mills, and in the con-
duct of said business to acquire prop
erty real and personal, and to construct
or lease or otherwise acquire such build
ings, machinery or other property ne
cessary for the proper and advantag-
eous conduct of said business.
ARTICLE III
This corporation shall have the power
to contract, sue and be sued, to make
and use a corporate seal and the same
to alter at pleasure, to hold, receive, pur-
chase, improve, ALLEVIATE, pledge, mort
gage, and hypothecate property under
it's corporate name in the conduct OF
it's business, and to make and establish
such rules and regulations for the prop
er management of its affairs as it may
deem necessary, and the same to alter
at pleasure; and to enjoy all other
: privileges and immunities given by law
to corporations organized for similar
purposes.
ARTICLE "
:. The capital stock of this corporation
is hereby fixed at fifty thousand dollars
divided into shares of one hundred dol
lars each, which shall be paid for al
the time of its issuance, and said stock
may be issued for money, goods, prop,
! erty, or for services performed as the
{ Board of Directors may determine. Nc
stakeholder shall sell or transfer hi:
stock in this company until after ter
days notice, in writing, to the presiden
or other officers, during which time, thu
other stockholders shall have the RICH
to purchase said stock, but all trans
: fers of stock shall be made on the book
of the company, at its Office. The salt
.. corporation shall commence business
!. soon as twelve thousand FIVE hundre'
g dollars capital stock is subscribed.
: ARTICLE V
The affairs of this corporation sha
. be managed by a board of director
: composed of three stockholders, tw
al of whom shall constitute quorum, t
= be elected at a general meeting of tn
stockholders to be held on the first Mon
- day in August, 1910. and annually there
after, all directors holding Office unit
: their successors are elected and installed
: Each share of stock shall be entitled
one vote at stockholders meetings, ca
BY its owner in person or by prox
r. and the majority of votes shall preva
!; at said meeting
ARTICLE VI
= This charter may be amended
- modified at special meeting, called Fl
that purpose, or the corporation m
be dissolved at said meeting by vo
- of two-thirds of the stock present
represented therein. Notice of met
ing for the purpose of amending
modifying this charter, or to dissol
Is this corporation shall be given to
a.: stockholders by registered mail, at lie;
ten days previous to said meeting, t
nd said notice stating the object and pit
d. pose for which the meeting is call
sh, Whenever this corporation shall be d
md solved by limitation or otherwise,
fer affairs shall be wound up by two co
ac- missioners selected by the majority
of the stock present at meeting called
for the purpose of dissolying this corpo
the ton, as set forth above. In the c.
on of the death or inability of either of
}, commissioners to act, the other 81
tn act as sole liquidator.
ARTICLE VII
-or The officers of this corporation 81
Jar be as follows: G. H. Byrnes, pr
-, | dant. w McKenuon yice-OreSide