The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1913-04-24
CHARTER
of The Chester Oil COMPANY,

t'att VI Louisiana, PARISH OF Cad
40: BE 1t known that on this the
i9th day of April 1913, before me,
;. q. Williams, deputy clerk and ex-
o;elo deputy recorder and notary
public, duly commissioned and
sworn in and for the Parish of Cad
90, Stale of Louisiana, personally
came and appeared G. d. Reeves,
N. w. Mcclure and w. A. Kerley.
who declared that availing them
selves OF the provisions of the laws
OF this Stale relative to corporations
they nave cONenanted and agreed,
and by these presents covenant and
agree, and bind themselves, as we'll
as other persons as may hereafter
become associated with them, to
form and constitute corporation
and body polite in law, for the OBJ
Jects and purposes and under the
stipulations and conditions follow
ing:
ARTICLE I.
The name and title Of said cor
poratlOn shall be The Chester Oil
Company, and its domicile is hereby
liked and established at Shreveport,
CaddO Parish, La, 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;
10 hold, receive, have, purchase, i'm
prove, ALLEVIATE, convey, borrow
pledge, mortgage and hypothecate
under its said corporate name,
property, real, personal and mixed
and to do all things and acts per-
mltted by law and 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 per-
son upon whom citation or other
legal process shall be served This
corporation, unless sooner dissolved
in accordance with its charter, shall
exist and endure for period 81
ninety-nine years from and after
the date hereof.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes for
which this corporation is organized
and the nature Of the business to bt
carried on by it are hereby declared
to be to purchase or lease lands for
the purpose Of developing same fol
oil or gas or other minerals, and t6
engage in the business Of producing
oil, gas and other minerals; to &C
| quire and construct and operate gas
| plants and pipe lines for conveying
| oil and gas, and generally to do such
acts and things as are necessary OF
incident to the producing Of oil ant
gas and of disposing OF same Whe-
Their the individuals or corporation:
be private or public.
ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corpora
Ition shall be fifty thousand dollars
divided into and represented by fifty
thousand shares of the sum of on
dollar each, which said stock shall
HE paid for at the time of subscrip-
ltion or the same may be issued a
mot less than par in exchange fol-
property or rights actually received
or purchased by the corporation, o.
1.-THE same may be issued full paid
for money advanced or other yalu
liable consideration as the board O.
directors may determine. This cor.
lporation shall commence bushes
las soon as three thousand dollars 0
| the capital stock shall have bee
lsubscribed for.
/ ARTICLE ~:
/ The corporate powers OF TIL
| company shall be vested in and ex
lereised by a. board Of three director
who shall be for the present Z. !
Reeves. N. w. Mcclure and w. 4
|Kerley. OF which board C. D. Reeve
shall be president, N. w. McClur
vice president and w. A. kerley sec
lretary and treasurer, who shall hoi
their offices until the next regula
injecting of the stockholders for tn
Iseleetion of a board OF directors
which shall be held on the 18th ia
of April A. d. 1914, on which da'
land annually thereafter such stock
holders meeting shall be held, an
lof which meetings notice shall .
Igiven by public advertisement
lone of the papers published in tn
Parish Of Caddo, and by write
notice directed to the last know
place of residence of each OF u
fcfoctholdars Droyided that sue