The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-07-09
CHARTER
Hart Behrens Lumber Com
pany, Limited
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. /
STATE OF LOUISIANA, !
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parish OF Grant, State of Louisiana
duly commissioned. and qualified
and in the presence of the witnesses
| hereinafter named and undersigned
| personally came and appeared Il. o.
| Hart. X. q Hart, Mrs. Maggie A
Evans, all residents of the parish oil
Grant, and G. J. Behrens. a resident
of the City of st. Louis. State oil
Missouri. who declared that. avail.
ing themselves of the provisions oil
the laws of this State relative to the
formation of corporations, they do
by these presents for themselves.
their associates. successors and as
signs, as well as such other persons
who may hereafter become associ-
ated with them. form and organize
themselves into and constitute a
corporation under the laws of the
State of Louisiana for the purpose
and under the stipulations and agree
ments hereinafter set forth and ex-
pressed. which they hereby adopt as
their charter or articles of incorpOr-
alton, to-wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name and title of this corpor-
a tion shall be the Hart Behrens Lum-
Der Company, Limited, and under the
corporate name it shall have and
enjoy corporate existence and sue
cessloD for term of twenty-five { % J
years from and after the date of this
act; to contract, sue and be sued;
to make and use a corporate seal
and the same to break and change
at pleasure; to hold in fee or other
wise receive. lease. purchase. alien
ate and convey, as well as to mort
gage, hypOthecate and to pledge
property, real and PERSONAL; to issue
stocks and bonds therefor; to name
and appoint such managers. direc-
tors. officers or agents as the inter-
est of said corporation may require;
to establish by laws, rules and regu-
lations for the proper management
Of the affairs of this corporation as
may be necessary and proper. the
same to alter at pleasure, and gener-
ally. to do and perform such acts as
may be proper and necessary to car
ry out and execute the purposes Of
this corporation.
ARTICLE III.
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is formed and the
general nature of the business to he
carried on by it are declared to be
to manufacture all kinds of rough
and dressed lumber, and the same to
sell both at wholesale and retail; to
acquire. construct and operate saw
mills or manufacturing establish
ments necessary and convenient to
carry on the purposes of this cor
pOratiOn; to buy and sell both at
wholesale and retail, all kinds of
lumber. shingles and building ma
terial; to establish and conduct lum-
Der yards; to buy and sell, hold and
lease real estate, stumpage and logs,
and to construct. acquire and oper-
ate such tram ways, railroads and
logging roads operated by steam or
other power necessary to conduct
the business for which this corpora
ton was organized, to conduct such
stores and commissaries as may be
needful and necessary to carry on
the business of the corporation.
ARTICLE Ill.
The domicile of this corporation
and it's principal place of business
shall be at Bentley; i'm the parish of
Grant. State of Louisiana.
The President of this corporation,
and In his absence the Vice President,
and I'm the absence of both of them.
the Secretary. are designated as the
officers upon whom service of eta
ton or Of any other legal process
shall be made.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock of this corpora
ton ia hereby fixed at Fifty Thou
sand ($50. O00.00) Dollars. divided
into five hundred 5000 shares of the |
par value of One Hundred ($1O0. OO) |
Dollars each, which shares shall he |
paid for in cash, or it's equivalent. at |
such times and In such amounts as
the Board of Directors may determ-
Inc; and the said stock may lie issu-
ed at not less than par i'm payment |
OF property received or purchased by |
said corporation, or for labor done |
Or money actually received. Pro-
vided. however, that no stock shall |
be issued by said corporation until |
payment therefor has been made ac-
,ording to the previous provision of
this article.
This corporation may commence
business under it's corporate name
rs soon as Forty Thousand ($4O,-
)O0.OO) Dollars of it's capital stock
shall have been subscribed and paid
or.
ARTICLE v.
All the corporate powers Of this
shall be vested i'm and
exercised by the Board OF Directors,
20 he composed of three CD stock
folders OF this corporation, a ma
ority of whom shall constitute a
Quorum for the transaction of bust
less. The first board OF directors
hall consist of Il. o. Hart, c. j. Behr-
ms and X. G. Hart, stockholders OF
his corporation.
The board of directors shall hold
,ffice until the first Tuesday of June,
Oil, or until their successors shall
'e elected. The said directors shall
'e elected annually on the first Tues
lay of June in each year. All such
lections shall be held by ballot and
hall be held at the Office of the cor
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