The Caucasian., 1913-12-25
CHARTER
O9 the Southern TruG and Snsese.
nDent Company

ish, duly commissioned and sworn,
personally came and appeared w.
L. Martin, E. Key and p. q. Whaley,
residents of Marshall. Xexaso %. g..
Jacobs, G. w. Dawleyo W. 9. Am
brose and Frank Craig. residents OF
McAlester, Okla, and L. n. Logans a
resident OF said Parish and State,
who stated and declared 90 meo no
tary, that availing themselves OF che
Constitution and laws OF the State
of louisiana they have formed and
constituted themselves, and do by
these presents forn and constitute
themselves, as well as such other
persons as may hereafter become
associated with them, into . corpor-
alton and body corporate. and have
adopted and ordained and do by
these presents adopt and Ordaln IS
theiv charter and acs o9 sncorpoSse
ton Che following, eoevise
ARgICLE
The name ana title OF shis coIpofe
alton shall be the SOuthera Trust
and Investment Company. with its
domicile st the City % Shreveport,
in said Parish and State. and under
said corporate name il shall nave
and enjoy succession for . period
of ninety-nine years unless sooner
dissolved, as hereinafter provided.
All legal process shall be served on
the president, or in the event OF MS
absence on any person at the office
of the company in the City OF
| Shreveport.
ARTICLE II.
The purpose for which this cor
poratiOn is formed and its objects
are hereby declared to be to pro-
cure, accumulate and acquire money
and lending and investing the same
upon and in any and all KINDS,
classes, and character of collateral
and securities; to buy, sell, acquire,
own, handle, invest and deal in
stocks, bonds, notes, securities and
| collateral of any character and de-
scription whatsoever, and to guar
antee. assure and protect the pay
ment of the same by endorsement
guarantee, underwriting or any
other legal way. To buy, sell, ac-
uuire. own, handle, develop. pre-
mote. invest and deal in real ane
personal estate and properties o.
whatsoever character, mines, min
erals, oils, gas and timber, together
with the land whereon the same
Imay be found and located, and al
contracts, rights, leases and prlvl-
leges pertaining and appurtenant Z
any and all of the above and fore
going; to buy, sell, acquire, own
handle, promote, develop, invest AM
deal in by wholesale and retail an,
and all kinds and character whatso.
ever of goods, wares and merchan'
, disc, livestock and any products o
the soil. To promote, develop, con-
struct, acquire, own, operate, main
tain, handle, buy, sell, use, invest
and deal in any and all Of the fol
lowing, that is to say compresses
. electric lights and power and heat
ing plants, of any character, water
works, sewers and sewer systems
gins, quarries, mines, Oil refinerie'
oil mills, soap, lard and compoun
lard plants, places of amusemen
cotton and woolen mills, cotton plat
forms, grain elevators, transfer sys
TENS, public warehouses, stoc
yards and pens, dairies, creamerie
canneries, packing plants OF an
character, ice plants, refrigeratin
plants, cold storage plants, saw
mills, and any and all manufactu1
ing, mining and milling plants
whatsoever character and descriI
ton, as we'll as all products, good
wares, merchandise and materia
used, manufactured and produce
by any and all of the above al
foregoing plants, enterprises, bus
nesses, matters and things; to tran
: act and carry on any and all OF tt
above and foregoing businesse
matters and things for and on beha
of itself and others at any place
!. places within the State Of Louisian
or in any other State in the Unite
States as may be determined on
: its board of directors.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corpor
D. ton is hereby fixed at two hundr
thousand dollars, divided into eig
thousand shares Of the par value
'Cl twenty-five dollars each, and it sh
commence business and become
going concern whenever ten thou
and dollars of its capital stock
subscribed for, but no stock sh
be issued except when fully paid I
by cash, property or services eq,