The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-04-30
CHARTER
or The
BOssier Land and Live
Stock Company, Limited

4 NOTARY TuOllc, personally appeared tne
persons whose names are undersigned,
who declared that they do hereby form
a corporation under the laws of the
State of Louisiana, with a charter as
follows, to-Wit:
ARTICLE I.
The name and title of this corporation
shall be the BossIER LAND AND LIVE
STOCK COMPANY, Limited, and its domi-
cile is fixed at Elm Grove, Bossier Par
ish, Louisiana. The President of this
corporation shall be the proper person
on whom service OF process shall be
made, and in his absence service shall
be made as provided by law. This cor
poration shall exist for a period of fifty
years, unless sooner dissolved.
ARTICLE II.
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is formed are declared
to be the purchase and sale of lands,
improved and unimproved, to raise, sell,
trade, bargain or otherwise handle live
stock, such as horses, cows, hogs, sheep
or any other domestic animal, and do a
general stock raising business; also a
general plantation or farming business,
and to do all things necessary in con-
nection Herewith to carry out the pur-
poses hereof.
! ~ ARTICLE III.
The capital stock of this corporation
shall be twenty-five Thousand Dollars,
represented by $50 shares of stock Of
One Hundred Dollars each, which stock
shall be paid for in cash at the time of
its issue, or it may be issued at not less
than par in payment of services or for
property and rights acquired and inuring
to the corporation. This corporation
may commence business whenever Five
Thousand Dollars of the capital stock
has been subscribed
ARTICLE ".
The officers of this corporation shall
be j. H. Mercer, President; John L.
Hodges, Vicepresident, and w. H.
Hodges, jr., Secretary Treasurer, which
officers, together with D. T. Ludlam and
John L. Mercer, shall form the Board of
Directors, to serve until their successors
are elected.
The corporate powers of this corpora
ton shall be vested in it's Board of Di-
rectors, to be composed of three stock
holders, and they shall be elected at the
annual meeting of stockholders, begin
ming with the year 1915. The Board of
Directors shall elect the officers from
among their number, and shall have
/ power to fill all vacancies occurring in
their number; they shall have full con-
troll of the property and business of the
corporation, and are authorized and en-
powered to make all necessary and
proper bylaws, rules and regulations for
the conduct of the corporation, and to
j ~ cp,nh nth off
employees as are necessary, and fix the
the salaries of the officers of the cor
poration.
/ ARTICLE v.
Annual meetings of the stockholders
of this corporation shall be held on the
first Wednesday in April of each year,
and special meetings of the stockholders
may be called by the Board of Directors,
or shall be called by the Secretary on
the written request of stockholders hold
ing at least one-fourth OF the issued
stock. Notices of stockholders meet
ings shall be mailed by the Secretary to
each stakeholder ten days before the
meetings. In the meetings of the stock
holders each share of stock present or
represented by written proxy shall be
entitled to cast one vote, and majority
OF the votes cast shall determine any
question, except as this charter, or law,
may otherwise provide.
/ ARTICLE VI.
This charter may be amended by a
majority vote of stock present or repre-
fsented at stockholders meeting, and
| the capital may be increased or de-
creased, or the corporation dissolved by
a vote of wo-thirds of the capital stock
so present or represented. Provided no
amendment shall be adopted prior to the
annual meeting in April, 1915, that will
change the number or members of the
Board of Directors, or change the officers
/ named in this charter, to serve till that
/ time. When this corporation is dis
solved by liquidation, or otherwise, its
affairs shall be liquidated and settled by
one or more liquidators elected by the
stockholders at the meeting wherein the
dissolution is ordered, and said liquida-
tors may have such powers as shall be
/ given them by the stockholders.
ARTICLE VII.
This corporation shall have all the
powers incident to corporations and
necessary to carry out It's objects and
purposes, and no stakeholder shall ever
be liable for any of its obligations be-
You'd what said stakeholder may owe as
unpaid balance on the shares of stock
held by him.
Thus done and passed at my Office in
said parish, in the presence OF w. w.
Smith and Edith Curtis, competent wit
nesses, this, the oath day of April, A. D.
1914. j. H. MERCER.
| j. L. MERCER,
/ tBy J. H. Mercer.)
/ DREW LUDLAM.
/ w. H. HODGES, jr.,
By Jno. L. Hodges.
Attest: JNo. L. HODGES.
w. w. SMITH.
EDITH CURTIS.
PERCY N. BROWNE,
Notary Public.
Endorsed: Filed April 20, 1914.
S. E. McCoRQuoDALE, Clerk.
A true copy. Attest:
|. S. E. MCCoRQUoDALE, Clerk
and ex-officio Recorder and Notary Public
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