The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-24
CHARTER
OF the First Savings Bank and Trust:
Company

iUI the uSt savings DdNh sauN lFuS
Company
State of Louisiana, Parish OF Gao
lido: Be it known and remembered
that on this the Goth day of March
A. D. 1912, before me, Leon R. Smith
notary public in and for the Parish
of CaddO, State of Louisiana. dull,
commissioned and qualified, in tn
presence of the witnesses hereinaf
ter named and undersigned, person
IalIy came and. appeared the seVera
IprrSOnS whose names are hereuntt
subscribed as stockholders, who de
clarpd that aviIing themselves Of thu
provisions Of the laws Of the
state of Louisiana relative tC
The organization of corpora
tions. banks, savings banks, safe de
post banks and trust companies
they have cONant1d and agreed anC
by these presents do covenant, agree
and bind themselves, as we'll as Sucl
other persons as hereafter may be
leone associated with them, anC
their successors, to form themSelVc,
into and to Ordain and establish {
corporation and body polite in laN
(which shall be a banking corpora
ton, for the purpose and business
as set forth herein and with the
powers granted them under the law:
Of the State of Louisiana in sucE
case made and provided, and under
the following articles of assOcia
ItiOn, tO-Wit:
ARTICLE 7.
The name and title of this cor
p0ratiOn shall be the First Savings
Bank and Trust Company of Shreve
port, Louisiana. Its domicile an,
principal place Of business shall b.
i'm the City of Shreveport, Parish OF
CaddO, State of Louisiana, but. i
shall have the right to establish one
or more branch offices of discount
and deposit within the limits of sale
parish.
II shall enjoy succession under il
corporate name for a term Of nine
ty-nine years from date hereof, I'm
less sooner dissolved by the action
of its stockholders in the manner
provided by law.
All citations and other legal pro
cess shall be served on the presiden!
Of this corporation, and in his alb
sence on the vice president actin.
as president, and in his absence 0.
the cashier Of the association, or g.
the law directs.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes fOI
which this corporation is establish
ed, and the nature of the business
to be carried on by it, are hereby
declared to be that Of conducting a
general banking, savings, safe dopos-
it and trust business in accordance
with the provisions of the laws OF
the State of Louisiana. =.
1t shall have the power. and au-
thority to make any and all con-
tracts and transactions incidental
and necessary to the proper conduct
of such business. and in general t.,
exercise all the rights, privileges and
powers granted to such corporations
by virtue of the provisions of the
laws of the State of Louisiana which
are cow in force or which may be
enacted hereafter. Tt shall have full
power to sue and be sued, to plead
and to be implicated, to appear, ans
wer and prosecute in all courts O.
justice. 1t shall have power to
make and use a corporate seal which
is hereby described to BE sfollows:
in form. with the words:
First Savings Bank and Trust
C7;r@p~ny Of Shreveport, Louisiana"
II TIE mareain and the figure re
presenting a pelican in the center
thereof; and to change and alter said
seal ct pleasure.
ARTICLE HI.
The authorized capital stock OF
this corporation is hereby fixed at
Five Hundred Thousand tS50U,O0o)
Dollars, divided into and represented
by Five Thousand $1,000 shares OF
stock of the par value of One Hun
dred $500 Dollars each.
The. subscribed capital stock Of
this corporation shall be paid for, on
cali of the directors, at the price of
One Hundred Dollars per share i'll
cash. The capital stock of this cor
pOratiOn and the number of shares
thereof NAV he increased or de-