The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1914-05-28
CHAR E r
or THE
BoSSier Land and Live
Stock Company, Limited

State of Louisiana, Be it remembered,
Parish of Caddo. That this day,
before me, Percy N. Browne, a qualified
Notary Public, personally appeared the
persons whose names are undersigned,
who declared that they do hereby form
a corporation under the laws OF the
State OF Louisiana, with charter as
follows, to-Wit:
ARTICLE /.
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 d
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 Ill.
| The capital stock of this corporation
shall be Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars,
represented by 250 shares of stock of
| One Hundred Dollars each, which stock
shall be paid for in cash at the time OF
its issue, OF 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
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 its 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 oil
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 fol
the conduct of the corporation, and te
appoint such other officers, agents and
employees as are necessary, and fix the
compensation of same; and they may fiji
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 or
the written II quest of stockholders hold.
ing at least one-fourth of the ISSUED
stock. Notices of stockholders meet.
ings shall be mailed by the Secretary tt
each stakeholder ten days before thu
meetings. In the meetings of the stock.
holders each share of stock present o.
represented by written proxy shall b.
, entitled to cast one vote, and a majority
/ of the votes cast shall determine an!
question, except as this charter, or law
, may otherwise provide.
> ARTICLE VI.
This charter may be amended by !;
majority vote of stock present or repre-
sented at stockholders meeting, ant
the capital may be increased or de
creased, or the corporation dissolved b,
vote of two~thirds of the capital stool
so present or represented. Provided n,
amendment shall be adopted prior to tn,
annual meeting in April, 1915, that viii
change the number or members of tn,
Board of Directors, or change the officer
named in this charter, to serve till tina
! time. When this corporation is dis
solved by liquidation, or otherwise, it
affairs shall be liquidated and settled b,
one or more liquidators elected by tn,
, stockholders at the meeting wherein tn
$ dissolution is ordered, and said liquida
tors may have such powers as shall b.
given them by the stockholders.
ARTICLE VII.
This corporation shall have all tn,
powers incident to corporations an,
necessary to carry out It's objects an,
purposes, and no stakeholder shall eve
f be liable for any Of its obligations be
5 yond what said stakeholder may owe a
: unpaid balance on the shares of stool
: held by him.
Thus done and passed at my office il
: 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,
By ]. H. Mercer)
l 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. MeCoRouoDALE, Clerk,
A true copy. Attest:
S. E. MCCoRQUoDALE, Clerk
q and ex-ofieio Recorder and Notary Public