The Caucasian., 1913-12-09

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EHARTEE
Ot Jhe Eas Texs TIVE and a.
etrac4 COmpanSe
state % 1exaa Gounsy o3 WpA:
Be it Semembere6 shae oD chic dag
before me, ~. u. aandero, Q notary
public in end Sor aid Counts snd
State. duls commissioner and
sworn, 0ersonalls came and ap-
peared ,. q. Hudson, &. g. Moore,
M. L. Hemphill, oil residente OF
Wood County, fsxas: p. Bowyer, a
resident of Hopkins County, TeSas,
by her agent and attornes ,. t. Hud-
son; T. C. Hudson. resident of Caddo
Parish, La, by his agent and attor.
ney Jess Hutchinson: }. q. Hudson,
by ]. L. Hudson, attorney and agent,
who stated and declared to me, 40
tary. that availing themselves of the
Constitution and laws Of the state
of Louisiana relating to the fOrma-
tion of corporations. they have
formed themselves, as we'll as such
others as may hereafter become as
sociated with them, into corpora
ton and body corporate, and have
adopted as their charter and act of
incorporation the following, to-wlt:
ARTICLE |.
The name and title of said cor
poration shall be Yhe last Yexas
Title and Abstract Company, and its
domicile is hereby fixed and estab-
lished at Shreveport, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, and with such other
branch offices as may be necessary
to successfully conduct this busi-
ness, and under its said corporate
name said corporation shall have
power and authority to contract,
sue and be sued; to make and use
a corporate seal and the same to
break or alter at pleasure; to have,
own and hold, to receive, purchase,
sell and improve, and to ALLEVIATE,
convey, to pledge, mortgage and
| hypofhecate land and property, real,
personal and mixed: to borrow and
| lend money in the conduct of said
business, and to give and take Sc
lcurity thereof; and to do all things
and acts permitted by law necessary
and proper to carry out the objects
and purposes of said corporation.
The president, or in his absence the
vice president, shall be .the proper
person upon whom legal process or
| citation shall be served. This cor
poration, unless sooner dissolved in
| accordance with its charter and the
law, shall exist and endure for a
term and period of fifty years from
and after the date hereof.
l ARTICLE Ill.
The object and purposes of this
corporation and for which it is
organized and the nature of its
business are declared to be to buy
and sell and to own land, real es-
tate, and the fruits and profits ac-
cruing therefrom, and to mortgage,
hypothecate and cucumber said
lands, and to own property, real.
personal and mixed: to rent, let and
lease and improve and occupy
its said lands; to farm till and
develop any of its said lands
or property; to acquire, own and
(use any and all buildings, struc-
lures and manufacturing enter
prises thereon for handling the
products produced thereon, and
generally to do any and all such
acts and things as are necessary or
incident to the proper and legal
management and conduct of said
corporation, and to do general abb
stract business in the States of
Texas and Louisiana
ARTICLE III.
| The capital stock of this corpora
ton shall be one hundred thousand
dollars, divided into four thousand
shares of twenty-five dollars each
which said stock shall be paid for
Il
at the time of subscription, or the
same may be issued at not less than
par in exchange for property or