The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-02-09
CHARTER
OF the Oil City Drillers and Helpers
Club.

in and for the above State and Par
ish, personally came and appeared
II. S. Talmadge, John P0rath, ID. 0
Barr, \. +. Hugus, J. N. NcNulty
Dan Thomas, d. NJ. Mcmillan, Geo
Irby, A. +. Finch, Hugh West, H. l.
Shepard, Leonard Rice. w. 0. Mar
tin, Shell Goodman, I. B. FARRELL, 5
T. Godfrey, C. %. Stevens, John
Brown, Ed StrOsnider. J. w. Tllley
D. C. Lester, Charlie Rice, C. l.. Lit
tie, J. b. Brown, Jake MOrefield
Charlie Allen, A. R. Kostelka, all OF
full age, and residents of CaddO Par
ish, louisiana who declared that
ayailing themselves of the laws Of
the State of Louisiana relative to
the organization Of corporations for
social and literary purposes, they
hereby form and constitute them
selves, their associates and success
sors into a corporation and body
polite for the objects and purposes
hereinafter stated and under the
following articles of incorporation.
ARTICLE /.
The name of this corporation and
association shall be the "Oil City
Drillers and Helpers Club" and its
domicile is hereby declared to be at
Oil City, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
ARTICLE ii.
The objects and purposes of this
corporation shall be, to foster So
cial intercourse, to provide for the
recreation, amusement and enter
tainment of its members and invited
guests, and to encourage literary
tastes by the establishment and
maintenance Of reading rooms, and
to provide same with such PERIOD
Gals and newspapers as may be ne
cessary to accomplish these pur-
poses. This corporation and assO-
citation shall have and exercise all
the rights, privileges and powers
authorized by law to corporate
bodies.
ARTICLE III.
This corporation shall continue
for the term ninety-nine years
from the date of this charter, and
shall have power to make and use
q corporate seal and to change the
same at pleasure; to contract, sue
and be sued; to purchase, hold, hy-l
pothecate, lease, ALLEVIATE and CON-
vey personal and mixed property;
to name and appoint such officers,
agents and employees as the interest
Of the corporation may require, and
to make and establish bylaws,
rules and regulations for the proper
management and conducting its af-|
fairs, and to alter and change the |
same at pleasure.
ARTICLE ".
The corporate powers OF this club
shall be vested in and exercised by
a board of directosr, to consist of
president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer, and two other mem
bers to be elected annually; they
shall hold their offices for one year,
OF until such time as their success
sOrs are elected and qualified. They
shall be elected on the first Monday
in January of each year, and shall
elect from their number their re-
spective officers above named. All
vacancies occurring during the term
of office shall be filled by the board.
All citations or other legal process
shall be served on the president, or
in his absence on the vice president,
and in the absence of both on any
member of the board acting as pres
ident protein, by the designation of
The president or vice president.
ARTICLE V. It
A general meeting of the members
Of this corporation shall be held on
The first Monday in January of each
year for the election of officers and
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the assent of the mem /
Ders. These meetings shall take
place at the domicile of the cor /
Doration, and at such meetings each
shall be entitled to one
vote. The president OF acting presi-
lent shall have the power to call
general meeting of the members AT d
my time, or upon the written re- .
quest of fifteen members, and no 5
ice shall be given of all general 7
meetings of the members by notice :
+ such meeting being previously =
'osted in the club rooms for a pc q
iod of ten days and by publication =
q one of the papers published in
he Parish of Caddo for fifteen days.
ARTICLE vi.
The following shall be the first
Ulcers and directors of this club,
nd shall serve until their success j
ors are elected and qualified: Dan A