The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-19
CHARTER
OF the GIOver-LeVin Company.

State Of Louisiana, Parish OF Cad
do: Be it rememberedStha on the
18th day of January A. d. 1913, be-
fore me. ID. C.. Scarborough Jr., q
notary public in and for the PARISH
of Caddo, State of Louisiana, duly
qualified and commissioned, came
and appeared the several persons
whose names are hereuntO sub
scribed. who declared that avallln9
themselves of the laws of the State
of Louisiana in such case made and
provided, they do by these presents
constitute and form themselves, as
we'll as such other persons that may
be associated with them, into cor
poration and body polite in law, for
the business and purposes as de-
scribed and set forth herein, and
have adopted and ordained as their
charter the following, to-wit:
ARTICLE l.
The name and title of this cor
poration shall be The GlOver-Levin
Company, with its domiclle at the
City of Shreveport, CaddO Parish,
Louisiana, and under its corporate
name it shall have and enjoy sue
cession for a period of fifty years,
unless sooner dissolved as herein
provided. All legal process shall be
served on the president. or III his
absence on any employee of the COM
pany at its Office in said city. 1t shall
have The power to make and use a
corporate seal. Under its corporate
name it shall sue and be sued, plead
and be implicated, appear, answer
and prosecute in all courts of JUS
tice.
ARTICLE II. @
The object and purposes OF this
corporation are hereby declared to
be the business of carrying on a
tailoring and clothing business. 1t
shall have the power to own and
hold real estate, and real and per-
sonal property, and to sell and dis
pose of same; to contract and 9TH
erwise to exercise all de powers
which are not prohibited under the
laws of the State of Louisiana 10
such corporations. ....
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corpora
ton shall be fixed at the sum of five
thousand dollars, divided into fifty
shares of the par value of one hun
dred dollars each, and it shall be au-
thorfzed to commence business and
bee0me going concern whenever
three thousand dollars of its CAPT
tai stock is subscribed and paid for
in full. Stock may be paid for in
cash and issued for cash, services
or property equal to the par value
thereof, subject to the approval of
the board of directors. The shares
of stock of this corporation shall be
transferable only on the books of
shall be binding to this company
until it shall have been entered on
the books of the company. No stock
of this company shall be sold by
any holder thereof in the open mar
ket except after ten days prior no
tice of intention has been given,
during which time the other stock
holders shall have the privilege of
purchasing the same, and this
clause shall be printed on the face
of each certificate of stock issued
by this company. No further stock
shall be issued except upon two
thirds vote Of8stOck at meeting
held for that purpose.
ARTICLE ~.
The affairs of tits corporation
shall be vested in and exercised by
o board of directors consisting of
three stockholders to be elected at
general stockholders meetina to
be held on the first Friday after the
first Monday in January of each
year, who shall hold their offices for
one year or until their successors
are appointed, and any vacancy in
the board of directors from what
ever cause may be filled by the re-
manning directors electing a stock
holder to such vacancy. Until the
election in January 1914 the follow
ing shall compose the board of di-
rectors of said company: w. G..
Glover, president; Marx Levin. vice
president; Hardy Hearne, secretary
treasurer. The said board shall have
the authority to adopt such rules
and regulations as they deem ad-
Nlsable and to alter and change the
same at their pleasure, and to en-
ploy all such help or assistants as
maybe necessary in managing the
affairs of the company, fix their sal
aries and discharge them at pleas