The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-04-17
CHARTER
OF THE HINKLE-LANIER LUM-
Der COMPANY.

State of Louisiana, Parish of Caddo
Be it known that on this the goth day
of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and ten,, before
me, T. F. Bell Jr,, a notary public IN
and for said Parish and State, duly
commissioned and qualified, came and
appeared R ]. Daniel, a resident of
Atlanta, Texas, T. B. Hinkle, a resident
of Fort Worth, Texas, and T. P. Ian
Ter, a resident of Caddo Parish, Louis
lana, each of whom declared unto me
in the presence of the attesting witness
es, that availing themselves of the laws
! of the State of Louisiana relative to the
formation of corporations, they do
hereby organize themselves and their
successors into and create corporation,
and adopt the following articles as the
charter thereof to govern themselves
and such others as may become asSo-
ciated with or succeed them:
ARTICLE 1.
The name and title of said corpora
ton is .TIINKLE-LANIER LUMBER
Company, with its domicile in the City
of Shreveport, in said Parish and State,
and all legal process shall be served on
its president, or in his absence on the
secretary-treasurer of the company at
its domicile; and under its corporate
name it shall have authority to sue and
be sued; to adopt and use corporate
seal, and the same to change at pleas
ure.
ARTICLE II.
The purpose for which this corpora
ton is established and the nature of the
business to be carried on by it are here
! by declared to be, to buy and sell tim
Der lands, to manufacture, to buy and
sell lumber at wholesale, to buy, build
and operate saw and planning mills, rail
roads and tramways, to conduct gen
eral merchandise business, and to do
all things connected with or incident
to any or all of said purposes.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corporation
| is hereby fixed at the sum of twenty
FIVE thousand dollars, divided into two
hundred and fifty shares of one hun
bred ($Ioo) dollars each, which shall
be paid for in cash, or by the transfer
of property or labor or service per-
formed, as may be approved by its
board of directors, and a resolution of
the board of directors of this corpora
ton that the consideration given for
any stock is fair and adequate shall be
conclusive evidence that it is such. It
shall commence business whenever FIVE
thousand ($5ooooo) dollars of its cap
ital stock is subscribed and paid for,
and all stock issued by it shall be fully
paid and worcestershire. The balance
of said capital stock, the same being
i twenty thousand dollars, shall not be
sold or disposed of in any way except
by resolution Of the board of directors.
! ARTICLE ".
4 The affairs of the corporation shall
be managed and controlled by a board
of directors consisting of three stock
holders who shall be elected at a stock
holders meeting duly held at the office
of the company on the first Monday in
April of each year by the stockholders
at a meeting called for that purpose, and
.
at all such meetings, each share of
stock owned or controlled shall be en-
titled to one vote, whether cast in per-
son by the holder thereof or by written
proxy, and in all meetings of stock
holders, except as otherwise provided,
majority of the stock represented at
such meeting shall control. Until the
election to be held in April 1911, the
following persons shall constitute the
board of directors of the corporation,
to-wit: R J. Daniel, T. B. Hinkle and
/ T. p Lanier, with r. J. Daniel as pres
ident, T. B. Hinkle as vice president
and I. P. Lanier as secretary treasurer,
who shall hold their Offices until their
successors are duly elected and quail
fed. Any vacancy occurring in the
board of directors shall be filled by the
remaining members or member of said
board of directors for the unexpired
/ term. Whenever a board of directors
is elected it shall Immediately meet and
elect from among its members a presi-
i dent, vice president and secretary
i treasurer.
j ARTICLE v.
The board of directors shall have au-
thority to adopt a set of bylaws for the
regulation of the business of this cor
poration, to hypothecate, mortgage,
pledge or dispose of any portion of the
property Of said corporation for such
consideration and on such terms of
payment as it may deem advisable, to
direct and control the officers and EN-
ployes of the corporation, to pass all