The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-04-10
CHARTER
VI The Reeves Oil Company.


gay OF March 1913, before me, f.
ayes Browne, notary public,
DULY commissioned and sworn. I'M
and for the Parish of Caddo. State
y Louisiana, personally came and
appeared C. D. Reeves, w. A. Ker-
ley and w. F. Woods, who declared
That availing themselves of the pro-
visions OF the laws of this State rel
ative to corporations, they have
covenanted and agreed, and by these
presents covenant and agree, and
blnd themselves, as we'll as such
other persons as may hereafter be-
come associated with them, to form
and constitute a corporation and
body polite in law, for the objects
and purposes, and under the stipu-
latlons and conditions following:
ARTICLE 1.
The name and title of said cor
poration shall be The Reeves Oil
Company, and its domicile is hereby
fixed and established at Shreveport,
Caddo Parish, louisiana, and under
its said corporate name said cOrpor-
alton shall have power and author
ity to contract, sue and be sued; to
make and use corporate seal, and
fhe same to break or alter at pleas
ure; to hold, receive, have, pur-
chase, improve, o. ALLEVIATE, convey,
borrow, pledge, mortgage and hy-
pothecate under its said corporate
name, property, real, personal and
mixed; and to do all things and acts
permitted by law and necessary and
proper to carry out the objects ana
purposes of said corporation. The
president, or in his absence the vict
president, shall be the proper per
son upon whom citation or other
legal process shall be served. Thi:
corporation, unless sooner dissolvet
| in accordance with its charter, shall
exist and endure for a period d
ninety-nine years from and aftei
the date hereof.
ARTICLE II.
| The objects and purposes 10
which this corporation is organlze'
, and the nature of the business to bt
carried on by it are declared to b'
| to purchase or lease lands for tn
purpose of developing same for OF
!. or gas or other minerals, and t
engage in the business Of producing
: oil; gas and other minerals; to &C
! uuire and construct and operate ga
plants and pipe lines for conveyln
Gil and gas, and generally to do sue
acts and things as are necessary Q
) incident to the producing OF Oil an
gas. and of disposing OF sam'
whether the individuals or corpora
|tions be private or public.
i ARTICLE III.
Il The capital stock of this corpora
I lion shall be ten thousand dollar
divided into and represented by !"
hundred shares Of the sum OF I'LL
dollars each, which said stock sha
he paid for at the time OF subscrlT
ton. or the same may be issued
mot less than par, In exchange Il
property or rights actually receive
or purchased by the corporation,
tho same may be issued full pai
for money advanced or other vai'
able consideration as the board
directors may determine. This co
noration shall commence busine
as soon as three thousand dollars
a tho capital stock shall have Dc
subscribed for.
. ARTICLE Nv.
The corporate powers OF this col
~ many shall be vested m and exc
cised by a board of three direc@
who shall be for the present Z.
- Reeves. w. F. Woods and ".
II Kerley, of which board G. D. Rees
/ shall be president, w. F. Voc
vice president, and w. A. Kerr
| secretary and treasurer, who sn
| hold their offices until the next I.
IIular meeting of the stockholders
Ill The selection Of board OF dlrecpo
II which shall be held on the 0Oth 9
III Of FEBRUARY A. D. 1914, on wnl
cate and annually thereafter 81
stockholders meeting shall DC IA
and of which meetings nonce 81
II be given by public advertisement
III enc of the papers published IN
III parish of Caddo, and by written
IN ,ice directed to the last known pi
lIof residence of each OF the $40
holders. provided that such mo-
NAV be waived by the consent
The stockholders.
ARTICLE v.
I'LL The board Of directors snail y
rnll mower to MI vacancies IN u
.o,,ood nv death. rcSle