The herald., 1917-04-05


CHARTER
pT TIE NATIONAL SJLPlilR COM
PANN. INCORPORATED
United States NJ America, State OF Lou
f-raul. Parish of Orleans, City 81 New
Orleans.
BE n known ,hat au tins. the Sl,t day
NJ the month Of March, IN the year Of Our
Lord. one thousand. nine hundred and sew
t-rrcru and rt the independence Of the
United States Ut America, the one hundred
and forty-nr,t. before me, Alexis Brian, .
notary public commissioned and qualified,
within and for the parish Of Orleans. State
II Louisiana, therein residing. and IN the
presence of the wituc,,c, hereinafter named
and undersigned: personally came and ap-
pared the several person, whose names are
Aercuntp ,ubNcrlpcd' WHe declared tds
angling themselves Oh Inc PROVISIONS OF
The laws OF this State relative 10 the organ
tzation OF corporations, thcy nave organized
and d. by these presents organize and form
themselves and NucA other persons a. may
hereafter JOIN them, ana their successors INTO
corporation and body politic IN law, un-
der the covenants, agreements ana srpuIa-
nonN. following, io-wIt:
Article The nam. Of this corporation
shall be. the National SULPHUR Land Com
parv. Iuco~pprated" and under such name
Il shall enjoy corporate existence for term
,f ulrctv-ninc wears from date hereof un-
less sooner dissolved according 70 law Its
d1rricile shall be in the Civ OF New Or
leans. State Of Louisiana, where all legal
process directed against it shall be served
upon its president. OF in his absence, upon
IL, vice-prcsideut, and in the absence OF
both Of said officers, upon is secretary.
hold, lease, purchase, sell, convey, mortgage
or pledge property, real or personal or
mixed rights, franchises and chooses IN action
and stocks, bonds and securities OF other
corporations; TO borrow or lend money upon
security; 1t may sue and be sued and may
have and use 4 corporate seal. 1t may have
and enjoy all such other rights, powers and
prerogatlveS, as are now or may hereafter
be enjoyed by corporations generally and by
corporations OF a like character, organized
under the general ana specla! laws OF THIS
State.
Article III.-The objects and purposes for
which this corporation is organized and the
nature of the business to be carried on by
il, are hereby declared to be: To purchase,
lease, or otherwise acquire, to sell and gen,
orally to deal IN lands, real estate, mineral
rights and minerals; 10 construct by contract
or otherwise, or acquire works and appli-
ances necessary tor the exploiting, dlscov-
cry, DEVELOPMENT smelling, mining and re;
Inning OF sulphur, OILS and other mineral
substances, or to contract tor the same; to
acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise, and
mineral properties, rehneries, pipe lines,
ana their appurtenances; or 10 CONTRACT Tor
the same; to purchase sell ana generally to
dGdI IN lhe STOCKS D2hds ana SecuTiileS OF
aud all acts and things that may be neces-
sdry, convenient or incidental TO the carry
ing out OF these purposes.
Article IV.-The capital stock of this cor
thousand dollars ($5OOOOOO. divided into
five thousand 5000 shares of the par value
OF one hundred dollars $4,000 per share,
with the right to increase the capital stock
by complying with the requisites of the law,
to not more than one million dollars, ISL
OO0UODO).
The subscriptions opposite the names of
the subscribers hereto show that the entire
amount of said capital stock has been sub
scribed. The said subscriptions are TO be
paid for by the transfer and delivery to this
corporation Of an undivided three fourths in.
terest in the following lands, and all the
on, to-wit:
The fee simnIe title n an undivided three.
f,,,rtbs ;rteres, IN +bc la ~ al a.
placer and nou-metaIIjc mineral rights n
therefor are entitled. under the provisions Of
sion Of the T5iTty Tbird % '1 Of %5
State OF Texas. Chapter ia Acts Of 1914
ated in the east half Of Section % RIock
III, public school land. in CulbertsoD county
Texas; the said two buudred aces of Iand'
consisting OF five mineral claims. designated
as Gregory No. |. Gregory No. ,, Gregory
No. 3 Gregory 10 4 cSrsist;ng Of go go
thIrtyslN and 54/l0O CS65D acres; and
strip OF land OFF the eastern edge of Greg.
ory No. 10 Of three and $500 $40 acres;
as per held notes and plan OF the said min
Sral surveys and claims made by w. p.
! haXton', Surveyor OF Culbertson County,
Texas, dated January 3lst, 1917, on file in
me Records OF the General Land Office, at
Austin IN the State OF Texas.
Inc sara lands are dry, rolling prairie,
lnlmproyed and are supposed to contain sui
phur. OIL and other minerals. The said in
'GreSt IN SAID land, with the mineral rights
tooVs described nave been appraised by the
BOARD OF directors, hereinafter named at the
. va u oil hxe hundred thousand dollars $780,
-,tion sb,II he Iii VI iS'iuSE Oh ms coTPo'
Article VAi ,bP cor a,I
this comDanv incInd;rg he -iob. VI
,hase. convex mortgage nd LyneS.ba..t. pun
state shall he ,,astaS r'u ny po ~. Iedi
nent and control If is b,si,e.S sIam &C.
Exercised bv hoard Of d;-er.nrs c,,,,i,.,J
# five srnctLoldeTs H. ~ vo'"p{s tI
Constitute quorum, for the transaction r''I Of
m business ''' '''" u