The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-10-03
CHARTER
Purified Petroleum Products Conn
pany OF Louisiana, Limited.

4 SAS LlC, 0COlEC L uuIuEf,
notary public, duly commissioned
and sworn, in and for said Parish
ana State, came and appeared w. D.
CorDln, L. W. Hamiter, w. A. Mabry
I'll dras, Amedee Gras, I. ]. kerlin,
a L. Atkins, j. Milo Smith, w. H.
Worsham, f. w. Pals, r. H. Davis,
T. z, Kane, A. NJ. Wilder, E. E. Bal
ley, 4. r. Ratcliff, H. H. Balm, H. B.
Miller and George P. Sansing, all
residents of the State of Louisiana
except W. D. .Corbin, who is resi-
Gent OF the State of Missouri. who
stated and declared to me notary.
mat availing themselves Of the Con-
stltutlon and laws Of the State of
LOUISIANA, they have formed and
constituted themselves, as we'll as
such other persons as may hereafter
become associated with them, into a
corporation and body corporate, and
nave ordained and adopted as their
charter and act of incorporation the
following, tO-Wit:
ARTICLE /.
The name of the corporation shall
be The Purified Petroleum Products
Company OF Louisiana, Limited. with
Its domlcile at Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, Louisiana, and under said
corporate name it shall have and en-
JOY succession for a period of nine
ty-nine 800 years unless sooner dis
solved as hereinafter stipulated. All
legal process shall be served on the
president, or in his absence on the
vice president at the office of the
company.
ARTICLE III.
The object and purposes for which
this corporation is formed are here
by declared to be to own, acquire,
build and erect plants or factories
for the purpose of refining oil, and
purifying petroleum products under
the Hamilton process, and to pur-
chase, buy or acquire, and the same
to sell, dispose Of or assign oil,
either in the crude state or refined,
and the by-products of such Oil, and
to that end to buy, acquire and own
both real and personal property,
erect, construct or acquire pipe lines
and tank cars or other means of
transporting oil or its by-products; 4
to refine crude oil and manufacture
such commodities from the same orl
III its crude state, as may be deemed
profitable by the board of directors;
to drill and explore lands for oil, gas
and other minerals; to lease, sub
lease, buy, and sell lands, and gen.
orally to do and to perform any and
everything necessary to carry out
the purposes for which this corpor-
alton is formed.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corp0r-
alton is hereby fixed at the sum of
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars {$f50000.00l, divided into fifteenl
hundred shares at the par value of
one hundred $4,000 dollars each,
and it shall commence business and
become going concern whenever
fifty thousand dollars of the capital |
stock is subscribed for and paid inI
full. Stock may be issued for money, |
received or for services
performed, and when issued shall be
fully paid and worcestershire.
ARTICLE ".
The affairs of this corporation
shall be managed and controlled by
q board of directors composed Of
twelve stockholders who shall bel
elected by a general stockholders
meeting held on the first Monday in |
October. of each year, annually
and who shall hold their
offices until their successors are
elected and installed. Until the elec-i
ton in 1912 the following shall COM
pose the board of directors OF said
to-wit: E. w. Hamiter,l
E. r. Rateliff, w. A. Mabry, r. H.
Davis, w. D. Corbin, j. Milo Smith,
4. W. Pals, Fl. H. Balm, Eli Gras, A.
L. Atkins, A. M. Wilder and T. ].
kerlin, five of whom shall consti-
tute a quorum. Any vacancy in the
board of directors shall be filled byI
the remaining directors electing al
stakeholder to fill out the unexpiredI
term. The said board Of directors |
shall have the power to make such
rules and regulations or bylaws as
they deem best for the conduct OF |
the affairs of the corporation and
shall elect or appoint such agents,
clerks or other employees
as in their judgment may be needed /
to transact the business and affairs |
Of said corporation, and discharge
the same at pleasure. The oIncers of !
this corporation who shall hold off,
flee until their successors are elect
ed, are e. w. Hamiter, president, e.
r Rafcliff vice president. r.. II. Da-t