The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-03-20
ARTICLE II

hereby declared to be and to remain in
the City of Shreveport, La.
ARTICLE II.
The object and purpose of this cor
poration shall be: To foster social inter
couse, to provide for the recreation,
amusement and entertainment of the
members of this organization and in
vited guests, and to encourage literary
taste by the establishing and mainten-
ance of a reading room, properly sup
piled with magazines, newspapers and
library, and to accomplish these pur-
poses this corporation shall have the
rights and privileges and powers allowed
by law to body corporate.
ARTICLE III.
This corporation shall continue for
the term of twenty-five years from the
date of this charter, and shall have
power to make and use a corporate seal
and to change same at pleasure; to con-
tract, to Sue and be sued to purchase
hold, hypothecate, lease, ALLEVIATE and
convey real, personal and mixed prop
erty; to name and appoint all officers
and agents that the interests of the cor
poration may require; to make and eS
tablish all necessary bylaws, rules and
regulations and to alter and change the
same at pleasure.
ARTICLE ".
The corporate powers of this club
shall be vested in and exercised by
board of governors to consist of the
president, vice president and five other
members to be elected annually; they
shall hold Office for one year, or until
their successors shall be elected and
qualified. They shall be elected on the
second Tuesday in January of each
year. The business of the club shall be
managed by this board All vacancies
in office occurring during the term shall
be filled by the board. All citations OF
other legal process shall be served on
the president, or in his absence on the
vice president, or in the absence of both
on any member of the board acting as
president pro tenn by designation of the
president or vice president.
ARTICLE V.
A general meeting of the members of
this corporation shall take place on the
second Tuesday of January of each year
for the election of officers and for the
transaction of all requisite business.
Said meetings may be continued by ad-
journment should same be deemed
necessary by majority present A gen
eral meeting of this corporation shall
be called by the president or acting pres
ident at any time he may deem neces-
sary, or on the written request of fif-
teen members These meetings shall
take place after notice of the date and
purpose of such meeting shall have
been conspicuously posted in the club
room thirty days previous to the said
and published once during such
time in any daily paper. At all meet
ings each member shall have one vote
no proxies shall be permitted. Seven
members shall constitute a quorum at
any and all meetings, except for the
purpose of adjournment, and a decision
of a majority present shall be valid as
a corporate act except as herein stated.
ARTICLE VI.
No debt shall be created in any one
year to exceed the annual revenues of
said club, unless by consent of a major
ity of members present and voting at an
annual meeting, Or general meeting
called for such purpose No member
shall be held liable or responsible for
the contracts or faults of this club in
any greater sum than the unpaid balance
due the club; nor shall any informally
in organization have the effect of an
nulling this charter or creating greater
personal responsibility.
ARTICLE VII.
All acts and Obligations of this cor
poration shall be authenticated by the
signatures of the president and treas
urer
ARTICLE VIII.
All games in this club shall be regu- |
lated and controlled by the board of |
governors.
ARTICLE TX.
= The officers of this club shall be a |
president, a vice president, a secretary,
a treasurer, elected by majority vote
at the annual meeting. All voting shall
be by closed ballot. The secretary and
treasurer shall give bond in such sum as
the board of governors may determine,
and shall act in their proper capacity
whenever required by the board at its
The following shall be the |