The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-10-26
ARTICLE II.

SAID ndIle Sdiu COIpoIdLlolI sildII HdNC
authority to enjoy succession for ninety
nine years from and after the date
hereof; to contract, sue and be sued !;
make and use a corporate seal; hold,
receive, lease, charter, purchase and
sell, as we'll as mortgage and convey
real and personal property; operate
steamboats,, vessels and other vehicles
for the transportation of freight, pas
sengefs, 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 domicile 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 III.
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 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 a 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 hun
dred thousand ($Iooooooo) 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, may
begin. business and become going con-
Germ whenever four hundred and eighty
(48o) shares of its stock has been sub
scfibed and paid for in cash or in prop
erty, as above provided.
ARTICLE v.
/ The powers of this corporation shall
lbe vested in board of directors COM
posed of seven % stockholders; said
stockholders shall be elected annually
on the first Monday in September Of
leach year, at meeting of the stock
holders, which shall be held at the of.
fee of the company, Shreveport, Louis,
llama, after ten days notice IN any on'
of the newspapers published in the Cit
of Shreveport. Each share of stock shall
be entitled to one vote, and the major
lily of the stock present and voting a
such meetings shall elect. Stock ma!
lbe voted at all meetings either by tn
owner in person or by proxy. The frs
board of directors, hereinafter named
or any board of directors that may b
lheeafter elected BY the stockholders
shall remain in Office until their success
, sors are elected. Any vacancy occurring
lin the board of directors shall be file
! lby the remaining directors. The frs
! board of directors of said corporation
(which shall continue in Office until tn
first Monday in September 1910, or tirl
, It'll their successors shall have bee
!, elected, are hereby declared to be F. I
Lice, ]. B. Ards, c. d. Kalmbach, v
IT. Crawford, w. K Hendersos, SeJ
!. mour Florsheim and H. M. Well. tn
: directors shall elect the officers of II
; lcorporation, and until the first Monda
Z Fin September 1910 or until their SUI
Ieessors shall have been elected, the O
Ulcers of said corporation shall be ;
follows: F. D. Lee, president; ]. T
Ards, vice president; c. D. Kalmbac
lsecretary-t reasurer The board of
Irectors shall appoint and remove at al
# time such agents and employees as m;
4. be necessary in the conduct of the bu
illness of the corporation; shall NAL
!: such necessary bylaws as they may $
ie proper for the management of the bu
,e liness, with full power to manage al
5 control all vessels owned, run. leas
lie Tor chartered; to engage such vessels
v. trade or to lay up such boats and We
sels or any Of Them as they may S
Il, proper and to sell such boats as t
II company may purchase and to acqui
Iothers. al On such terms and for su
K. Iprices and On such conditions as /