The herald., 1915-08-19
CHAR TER-
CONSOLIDATED SULPHUR AND OIL
-. COMPANY, INCORPORATED

~ he
month OF July, in the year one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen, before me Francis y
nuI"si a notary public. in and for this city
ana; therein residing, duly comuIsSiorrd an,
quaIlhed. and IN the presence OF the wifneSSe.
nfT,teinatter named and undersigned, person.
second, W. W. Hines. director and secret1+y
.esPeStVeIy' OF the Louisiana Sulphur Drill
ing nomPany Incorporated; third. Il 5. Hood
t tapy'"' w W. Hines president and secre
SSIy, respectively, Of the United Drilling
company, Incorporated. NTH, T. p TngeTe
SIXTH W. W. Hines. president and SecretSTv
TTespecuyely; Of Kentucky Drilling Compsny
bai,P iated: al OF the aforesaid corporations
OelIS organized under the laws OF the S,.te
OF Louisiana and domICilvd and doing b,,s,
ness IN the city OF New Orleans. duly a,th5r.
yea 10 appear herein by virtue of resolutions
OF the Boards of Directors OF the In,,;si,,'
Sulphur Drilling Company, Incd LJuIs,aai
EnIteu DrIling Company, Incorporated. and
kentucky Drilling Company. Incorporafe,dI'
e eaoJ tne twentieth day OF July. one thou,
sahd niEe hundred and fifteen, certified CONES
OF which resolutions are hercunto sttarb.j
ana made part hereof for reference; and Ger
L tIed copies OF the resolutions Of the stock.
H ~ meetings Of the Louisiana Sulpbur
DrIiIing company, incorporated, United BrII.
ing company Incorporated, and Kenturtv
DtiilinS company, Incorporated each brIJ
on , July 1Oth' l9lS. showing that the assent of
.ne owners OF more than three hfths B-5l nj
the capital stock of each OF the aforesaid r,r
Stltueht companies was given 10 this consoli.
udtion' copies OF which resolutions are hereto
mtNed and made part hereof for reference
The said appearers declared thar av,;i;n,,
themselves OF the provisions Of the laws o}
| the state OF Louisiana relative to the merge
anu consolidation Of business and manufac-
tuiIHs corporations, whose objects and busi-
| HeSs are OF the same nature, and particularly
OF ACT NO. l9S of 1874, of the General Assem-
ny oi the State OF Louisiana, they do by
| 'hese presents. for themselves their asSoci
ates, successors and assigns as we'll ,S 81
other persons who may hereafter become aSso.
Grated with them, form, unite merge con.
! soIudte, organize and constitute a corpora
uon' hereby TO be formed by the union and
merger OF said Louisiana Sulphur Drilling
! CoWpahy, incorporated, said United Drilling
| company, incorporated, and said KentuckY
lining company, incorporated, for the pur-
poses and under the stipulations and agree.
| meHtS hereinafter set forth and expressed
which they hereby adopt as their charter or
ar.icleS Of Incorporation, to-wit:
| Article 1.-The name and title of this co-
PoTation shall be Consolidated Sulphur and
| On Company, incorporated" and under such
title 1t shall have and enjoy succession ana
s!.E i4r period OF ninety-nine years
from date hereof; 1t shall have power and
| authority to contract, sue and be sued make
ana use corporate seal, the same TO break
ana alter at pleasure; to hold. sell, lease,
real, personal mixed, necessary. incidental
| or proper for the carrying on of its business
and to that end to further mortgage all oil
| or mineral leases, grants or contracts held Ia,
I
ana improvements placed and erected on said
I lands, or to be placed or erected thereon as
well as TO issue bonds secured by such mort.
gage, such bonds to be issued in such
| amounts, at such rate of interest and TO nun
| for such length of time, not exceeding the
| term OF said leases, as said lessees or gran
tees may determine; to buy and hold stock
IN any other company companies that NAV
| assist this company in its objects and pur.
poses; to make and issue notes and certi6.
Gates of indebtedness; TO name, elect and ap-
M lnars i
employees to properly conduct its corporate
business, and to make such bylaws. rules
and regulations may be found necessary
or desirable Tor the management and business
| aHairs OF TINS corporation, and generally 70
do every other act, matter or thing necessary
ior the complete and proper carrying out OF
said business
Article 1.-THE domicile Of this corporation
shall be in the city of New Orleans, Parish
of Orleans. State OF Louisiana, where all c.
tatIons and other legal process shan be served
upon the president, or in the absence Of tn,
president, upon the first vice president. o.
second vice-president. or in the absence of al
of these officers, upon the secretary.
Article Iii-The objects and purposes o
this consolidated corporation are hereb,
stated and declared to be:
Q( To acquire by purchase or lease or 9th
erwise, lands in the Calcasieu sulphur an,
oil fields OF Louisiana, or in any other loca
ton in this State, elsewhere, for the pur
pose of prospecting for and obtaining OIL gas
salt, sulphur or other minerals. and to tina
end to drill, cause to be drilled, oil wells
or sink, to be sunk shafts for min
ing, and to buy, lease, or otherwise acquir
drilling rigs other machinery or apparatu
necessary to fully accomplish said purposes
and If oil or other minerals found, the
to market the same to the best advantage.
| ~ Engage in the distribution of oil, gas
salt, sulphur other minerals either pro
duced by this corporation, or other person
or corporations by means of pipe lines, tram
ways, railroads, boats, barges or other con
veyance, or to lease or suitcase all or an
part thereof to any other person corpora
tion for the like purpose, and in order
fully carry out said objects and purposes,
purchase, lease, otherwise acquire pip
lines, tramways, railroads. boats, barges, tan
cars, locomotives, pumping stations, stear
plants, air plants, and all other machinery o
paraphernalia necessary or incidental thereto
! 80 To build, construct, lease, purchase, O
! otherwise acquire buildings, machinery an
other apparatus for refining, smelling, mar
ufacturing, or otherwise working up the prod
ucts of mineral lands either produced by thi
corporation or other persons corporation:
and to refine, smelt, manufacture, or Other
to operate the said plant and market tn
products or by-products, as manufactured,
the best advantage.
. az To carry on such other business apper
tanning to oil, gas, salt, sulphur or other mir
erals as may be necessary or desirable, q
/ such as are generally engaged in by col
, poraton of this kind.
/, Article IV.-The Capital stock of this col
\
. thousand and seventy-two ($5O,0720Ol dollar
i divided into four thousand two hundred an
ninety-six 1920 shares of the par value {
seven $500 dollars each; provided that II
: amount to which the capital stock of tn
CORPORATION NAV be increased shall be tw
hundred thousand (s2OO.OOO0O dollars.
Fifty per cent 70 the capital stock of tn
{ corporation must be subscribed for before q
} fling of the articles of Incorporation. II
: subscribed capital stock of this corporatio
shall be payable in cash, property; real
s personal, or for services performed nr re-
c dered: and provided that il the stock IS n
: paid for in cash that the law as provided
I section three (3) of Act 267 of 1914 be IN a
e respects complied with.
: No stockholder shall ever be held liable
+ responsible for the faults, contracts or deb
e of this corporation in any further sum tn;
the unpaid balance due the corporation
the shares of stock subscribed for by hi
nor shall any mere informality in the orga
d ization have the effect of rendering this cha
n ter null or of exposing any shareholder
IF any liability whatsoever.