The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1916-07-22
CHARTER
Or THE
COlfax Timber Co., Inc.

FL Coioic He, d. D. hODeftS, q n0tar
public, duly commissioned, sworn an
qualified in and for the parish of Grant
: State of Louisiana, personally cam
and appeared Frank Comfy. j. H. Nc
Nicely, w. b. Strother and j. B. Nc
Knight, all residents of and domicile
IN the town of Colfax, Grant parish
Louisiana, who declared that availin,
themselves of the laws of the State O
Louisiana, especially of Act 267 of tn,
Acts of the General Assembly of sal,
State of the year 1914. relative to tn,
formation of corporations, they hay,
and do hereby form themselves int
and create BODY polite and corporate
IN law under the following name anC
conditions, stipulatIons and agreements,
to-wit:
ARTICLE 1.
| The name and style of this corpora-
ton shall be ''Colfax Timber Company.
incorporated, and under its said cor
porate name it shall have existence for
period of fifty years, and its domicile
is fixed at Colfax, said parish and State.
ARTICLE
The purpose for which this CORPORA
ton is organized and the business If
shall carry on are hereby declared tn
be to buy and sell timber. logs. and
such like. and timber lands, ties. slaves
and such like, and to cut and remove
timber from lands and do all things
necessary therein, and generally to en-
gage IN the timber business in all its
features, and Herewith to conduct and
operate a commissary department or
store, and generally to do all things
necessary and useful in the CARRYING
out OF the purposes for which this cor
poration is created, such as owning
and operating barges to haul and de-
liver logs and other timbers on the
streams of this State, and to employ
all labor necessary and useful for the
carrying on the business and the pur
poses for which this corporation is
formed.
ARTICLE
The capital stock of the corporation
is hereby fixed at five thousand dollars.
divided into five hundred shares of ten |
dollars each, and this corporation shall |
begin business as soon as fifty per
centum of the capital stock of the cor
poraton has been subscribed and fifty
per centum of such subscription paid |
IN, and the capital stock of the corpor-
ton may be increased five thousand
dollars additional, that is to a total
capitalization of ten thousand dollars.
All stock subscribed for shall be paid
for in cash or in its equivalent in prom
srty as required by said Act 267 of 1914
ARTICLE 4.
The first board of directors shall con-
;ist of j. H. McNeely, w. b. Strother.
Frank Comfy and j. B. Mcknight. who
shall hold office until the first Monday
n July, 1917, on which day and annu-
lily thereafter the stockholders shall
meet to elect new board of directors.
provided that when said day falls on
egal holiday the meeting shall be held ,
he day thereafter.
j. b. Mcknight shall be president of
his corporation, j. H. McNeely shall
'e vice president, w. b. Strother shall
e secretary-treasurer, and Frank Con-
y, manager, and each of these officials
hall hold Office at the will of the board
f directors and no longer.
ARTICLES
The corporate powers of this corpor- .
ton are hereby vested in the. board of
lrectors and they shall have all the )
orporate powers, which, under the :
aid Act 267 of 1914 and especially Sec
on seven thereof, boards of directors
T corporations are vested with, to
hitch act ana said section thereof ref :
renee is made and same made part
ereof. The board of directors shall
x the duties of the several officers of Z
lis company. -
ARTICLE 6.
The names and postoffice address of
le subscribers to the capital stock oil
rs company are as follows: j. H.
cNeely, Frank Comfy, w. B. Stroth-
:, and j. B. Mcknight, all of whom
side at Colfax, Grant parish, La.
Thus done, read and signed at Colfax. S
a., on this the 18th day of June, 1916.
j. B. MCKNIGHT.
]. H. MCNEELY.
F. Comfy. .,
w. B. STROTHER. r,
C. E. STROTHER. ~
c. E. DUFFEY. a.
j. B. ROBERTS, ~ ~
Notary Public. rs
ATE OBJ LOUISIANA ! In
Parish of Grant tv
hereby certify that the within and IN
regoing is true and correct copy of
e original charter of the "Colfax tn
mber Company, Incorporated, as ed
ID in this Office, same being recorded he
Charter Book No. /, at page rs ct
l, on the 5th day of July, A. d. 1916. tn
Witness my hand and official seal of to
ice at Colfax, La, this the 5th day G,
July, A. d. 1916.