The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-05-10
CHARTER
STATE OF LOUISIANA,

!, is Boyce, La, and V. G. Philips, who's
post office address is Provencal, La.
the said V. G. Philips also representing
: one, h. A. Lurton, whose post offic
G address is Pensacola, Escambia County
t Florida, by power Of attorney heret
affixed and made part hereof, who de
clared unto me that they, the said J
F. Mathis, V. G. Philips and H. A
: Lurton, hereby agree to and do organ
lie corporation and apply for letter
patent Incorporating themselves, thei
associates, successors or assigns in &C
cordance with the laws of the State O.
Louisiana and upon and under the fol
lowing proposed Charter, to-wit:
The name of the corporation shall bt
PROVINCIAL TURPENTINE COM
PANY, INC, and it's principal Llace OF
| business and domicile shall be at Prov
encal, Natchitoches Parish, La. II
shall have the power to establish such
other places of business in said state or
elsewhere as it's Board Of Directors OF
Stockholders may determine.
| The corporation is organized for a
period of ninety-nine, 1897 years.
The amount of capital stock hereby
authorized shall be thirty thousand dol
lars $3.50, 100000 divided into three hun
dred 1900 shares of one hundred dol
lars ($l0O.O0,) each payable in cash or
property.
The objects and purposes of the cor
| poration shall be to own, use, buy, sell,
rent, lease, mortgage, manage, operate
and improve lands and timber and more
especially turpentine orchards, to i'm
prove and develop lands for sale, rent,
farming or other purposes, to produce,
manufacture, bny and sell turpine and
rosin and the by-products thereof, to
own, operate and maintain mercantile
and commissary business and all the
real, personal, movable and live stock
or motor driven properties necessary or
desirable in the conduct of it's busi-
nesses; to own, operate, lease and sell
sawmills, tram-roads, steamboats,.
| barges, or other means of transporta-
| ton, Except as common carriers;) to
mortgage or pledge the properties of
the corporation, to make use of a COM
mon seal and alter the same at pleas
| ure, to appoint such officers, agents
4 QAlA NtIRlOJCCS DO tLlC d4OISSdLu pQSL-
nesses may require, to fix their com
pensation and through the Board of
Directors, all needfull bylaws for the
government OF the corporation; and
generally, to do and perform all acts
which may be required, necessary or
beneficial in the successful conduct of
the businesses of the said corporation.
5.
The b,,civaoe ~ AZ oor,1oxr>4;o, ,Lon
be conducted by the following officers,
viz: President, a President and
a Secret6ry-Treasurer, and a Board of
Directors consisting of not less than
three nor more than nine members, the
number to be fixed at any stockholders
meeting, but when not so fixed. three
members shall constitute full board.
The Directors shall be elected annually
by the stockholders at meeting to be
held on Tuesday after the second Mon |
day in January of each year. and the |
other officers shall be chosen annually |
by the Board of Directors at meeting |
to be held on the same day after the |
above stockholders meeting or as soon |
thereafter as practicable.
Other stockholders meetings may be |
held in accordance with the laws and |
vacancies among the officers or board of |
directors shall be filled also according
to the laws of the aforesaid State.
G..
Until the first annual meeting the
officers of this corporation shall be:
j. F. MATHIS, Pres.
H. A. LURTON, Vice-Pres.
V. G. PHILIPS, Sec Tres.
The Board of Directors shall consist
of the above named officers and the
said V. G. Philips shall act as General
Manager.
All meetings of stockholders and di-
rectors shall be held at the domic1le of
the corporation and notices of such
meetings shall be delivered in person.
Or by registered mail in writing to the
last known address of the stockholders.
This corporation may amend its
charter or liquidate its business at a ,
stockholders meeting upon two-thirds
vote of the stockholders present. Fif-
5een days written notice of such meet
ng together with statement of the ob-
ects and purposes thereof shall be :
given in person or by registered mail
20 all stockholders of the corporation. \
IN case of liquidation, the Board of di-
'ectors shall appoint a liquidator
Citation and other legal process shall .
oe served on the President of the cor 9
,oration or in his absence on the next
'anking officer.
No stockholder shall ever be held /,
liable or responsible for the contracts
md faults of this corporation in any >
urther sum than the unpaid balance of Z
he stock for which he has subscribed; :
Tor shall any more informality in or
yanizing this corporation have the !;
,ffect Of rendering this charter null and :
,oid or in exposing the stockholders to
my liability other than as above pro- +
,;ded.
TO-
Each of the incorporators hereto SUBJ
cribe to the capital stock for one hun
lred shares Q00) each of par value of
me hundred dollars (S10000,) the ag-
,regate being thirty thousand dollars
$50, o00.00;) the same this date being
,aid in full by property in equal indivi-
ion by the incorporators, itemized, de- :,
cribed and appraised by the Board of !.
Directors and transferred to this Cor {
'oration as shown by deeds and acts :
hereto and made part of this I
ct of incorporation as provided by law. 2
Certificates of the stock as herein :
rovided IN kind and amounts shall be
ssued to the said interpretations. This
hartcr together with the annexed deeds =
Includes the subscription to the capital .
took.