The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-01-21
CHARTER
Of the Oil City Drillsrs and Helpers
Club.


State Of Louisiana, Parish of Cad
do: Be it known that on this day be-
fore me, R. D. Webb, notary pub
lie, duly commissioned and sworn
IN and for the above State and Par
lsh, personally came and appeared
H. S. Talmadge, John Porath, d. o.
Barr, N. f. Hugus, J. M. McNulty
Dan Thomas, ID. M. Mcmillan, Geo.
lrby, A. F. Finch, Hugh West, H. L.
Shepard, Leonard Rice. w. 0. Mar
tin, Shell Goodman, T. B. FARRELL, S.
r. Godfrey, C. J. Stevens, John
Brown, Ed Strosnider, J. w. Tilley,
ID. 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
lsh, Louisiana, who declared that
availing 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 corporation and body
polite for the objects and purposes
hereinafter stated and under the
following articles of incorporation.
ARTICLE I.
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 periOdi-
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 of ninety-nine years
from the date of this charter, and
shall have power to make and use
a corporate seal and to change the
same at pleasure; to contract, sue
and be sued; to purchase, hold, hy-
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 Nv,
The corporate powers OF this club
shall be vested 81 and exercised by
a board of directosr, to consist Of a
president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer, and two other MEN,
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.
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
for the transaction Of all business
requiring the assent of the MEM
bers. These meetings shall take
place at the domicile Of the cor
poration, and at such meetings each
member shall be entitled to one
vote. The president or acting presi-
dent shall have the power to call a
general meeting of the members at
any time, OF upon the written re-
quest of fifteen members, and no.
tice shall be given of all general
meetings of the members by notice
of such meeting being previously
posted in the club rooms for, a Pc
riod of ten days and by publication
in one Of the papers published in
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