The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-12-17
CHARTER


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si ~hAI enjoy corporate "slst'n'"
me <haIi nave ssI sf lice powers
gwen. t> law to corporations OF lis
hald for period Of Fifty years
from the date hereof, unless sooner
dissolved, as hereinafter set forth.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes OF THIS
are hereby declared 10
be to conduct the business of buying
selling, exchanging or holding lots.
lands, real estate, houses, timber, IA
the states Of Louisiana, Arkansas
and Texas. with full power to mort
gage any real estate, lands, houses
or timber that it may hold. The
domiciIe of this corporation shall
be in Shreveport, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana. Citation shall be made
upon the president or in his alb
sencc on the officers of the cOrpor.
alton according to law.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corpor-
alton is hereby fixed in the sum oil
fifty thousand $4,000 dollars, d.
vided into five hundred shares ~
one hundred $4,000 dollars each;
and this corporation is authorized
TO begin busiEess wien twenty i've
thousand five hundred 1875, 100000
dollars Of its capital stock shall
have been subscribed and paid in
cash or its equivalent.
ARTICLE ".
The corporation power OF this
CORPORATION shall he vested IN a.
board of directors. consisting of
four stockholders, three of whom
shall constitute quorum for the
transaction of business. This board
shall be elected anually by ballot
by the stock holdcrs at a meeting
to be held OF The first Monday in
December in each year, beginning
with the year 1912 and the directors
shall elect the other officers of the
corporation until such meeting shall
be held and their successors elected
and qualified The directors of this
corporation shall be A. J. Murff,
who shall be president; G. O. Gayle,
who shall be vice-president; w. A.
Mabry. who shall be secretary; and
}. h. Murray, who shall be treasurer.
The board of directors shall have
authority TO make such regulations
Tor the conduct and management OF
OF the corporation and shall have
tho right to appoint such officers
and agents and employees as they
may deem proper and necessary in
the conduct Of The business and af-
fairs Of The corporation.
ARTICLE Y.
This corptNation shall have the
power 10 sue and be sued; TO buy,
sell and mortgage any and all kinds
OF property: to contract and be con-
tracted with; to make and have
a corporate seal aud the same to-
change and alter at pleasure; to-
make donations Whenever such may
BE- To The evident interest Of The
corporation, aud generally TO do and
perform any and everything that
Elay be necessary III the promotions
OF the objects and purposes for
which it is formed.
ARTICLE VI.
AT all meetings of stockholders
each share OF stock shall be entitled
Tied to one vote to be cast in the
person of the holder or by proxy,
and the majority OF votes cast shall
elect; public notice Of the meetings
OF stockholders shall be given by
printed notice in one of the news
papers published in the city of
Shreveport, or by personal notice
mailed to the stockholders, TO his
postofficc address, provided the
stockholders may waive notice or
may meet by unanimous consent
without notice
ARTICLE VII.
This charter or act Of IL .rpor-
alton may be changed, altered Or
abolished or the corporation dis