The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-06-13
CHARTER
OF the Quick Seven Oil and Gas
Company Limited.

tdTS puDIlC Ill anu lOi TIE Ctdlt dllb
Parish above written, duly commits
stoned and acting as such, PERSONAL
ly came and appeared on the 29lIi
day of May 1912, in the presence OF
the witnesses hereinafter under
signed, the persons named in Article
TX hereof, acting in the capacities as
therein mentioned, who declared
that they do by these presents organ
iZe a corporation under the laws of
the State of Louisiana with the fol
lowing articles as the charter of said
corporation and also as the original
subscription list for the purpose Of
organizing.
ARTICLE |.
The name of the corporation shall
be The Quick Seven Oil and Gas
Company Limited. It's dOmiciIe shall
be at Shreveport, in the Parish Of
CaddO, State of Louisiana. Citation
and other legal process shall be
served on its president, or i'll his alb
sence on the first vice president, or
in his absence on such other person
as may be named by law to receive
citation. 1t shall begin business i'm
mediately and shall exist for a pc
riOd of ninety-nine years from this
date.
ARTICLE II.
1t shall have power to contract,
sue and be sued: to make and use a
corporate seal; to hold, receive, pur-
chase, convey, mortgage, pledge and
hypOthecate property, real and per
sOnal; to name. and appoint such
managers, directors and officers as
its interests and cOnVenienceS may
require; to make and establish such
bylaws for the proper regulation OF
its affairs as may be deemed .neces
sary: and shall have all such other
and further powers as are now OF
may hereafter be conferred by law
on corporations of its kind.
ARTICLE III.
The corporation is formed for the
purpose: First, of mining or borin2
by other means, for petroleum and
other oils, gas, salt, sulphur anC
other mineral products in the STATE
of Louisiana, either in its own land
or lands leased from others, OF both.
Second, of establishing and Operat
ing pipe lines and other means fol-
transporting~Such products 10 the
market. Such mining and transpOr-
tatiOn are declared to be the nature
of the business to be carried on by
the corporation.
ARTICLE ".
The capital stock is fixed al
twenty thousand dollars, divided III
to two hundred shares of one hun
dred dollars each. No stock shall b.
issued until fully paid for. No trans
fer of stock shall be binding on the
corporation until noted on the books
thereof. Stock subscriptions, bOti
present and future, shall be paid fol
in cash, or in property or in leases
at valuation to be fixed by the board
of directors.
ARTICLE V.
The corporate powers Of the cor
pOration shall be vested in and it.
affairs shall be- managed by bOarC
composed of not less than five MOI
more than nine directors elected by
ballot by the stockholders at meet
ing to be held at the domicile of the
company on the first Tuesday after
the second Monday i'll January o
each year beginning in 1913. In cast
of failure to hold an election on the
day fixed, the directors in office
shall hold over until their success
ors are duly elected, which may bC
done at meeting held thereafter
Vacancies in the board may be filled
for the uneXpired term by the re
naming directors. Board members
may by written proxy act for eacl~
other at board meetings. The direc-
tors shall elect, viva voce, a presl
dent, first vice president, seconC
vice president, a third vice presl
dent, a secretary treasurer, an as
sistant secretary treasurer, and ma!
employ or engage general manager
and such other agents or assistants
as the interests of the corporation
may require, and discharge them a,
its pleasure. Each director shall OWL.
at least one share of stock of the
corporation. Three directors shall
constitute a quorum OF the boarc
for the transaction of business. ThI
secretary treasurer shall maintain
his office at the domicile OF tbs
company at Shreveport, La, and he
shall give bond with the security O
a solvent surety company in the
sum of five thousand dollars condi-
toned on the faithful performance
of his duties and the proper &C