The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-03-10
CHARTER
STATE OF LOUISIANA I
Parish of Grant

Parish of Grant
Before me. the undersigned notary
public, duly commissioned, sworn and
qualified in and for the parish of Grant,
State OF Louisiana, personally came
and appeared the following residents
and citizens of the said parish and
State: ]. M. Lang, Mrs. Zelma Bum
gardner, M. E. Teddlie, d. H. Wallace,
c. c. Wilson, Mrs. d. H. Wallace, G.
d. Smith, j. A. Patton, VIM. Bowen,
j. E. Wallace, Leon Lang, H. L. Brian,
l. McMills, and the others whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who declared
That awaiting themselves of the consti-
tuition and laws of the State of Louisi-
ana, especially by Act 254 of the Acts
OF the General Assembly of Louisiana
for the year 1914, relative to the for
nation of non-trading corporations,
they have organized themselves into and
do hereby organize and create a corpo-
ration and body polite in law under
the following agreements and stipula-
tons, to-wit:
ARTICLE ONE.
The name of this non-trading corpo-
ration shall be THE GRANT PARISH
FAIR ASSOCIATION, incorporated,
and its domicle is hereby fixed at Verda,
Grant parish, Louisiana.
ARTICLE TWO.
The purpose which this corporation
is organized and for which it is created
and will be carried on are hereby de-
clared to be: To run, manage and con-
troll q parish fair for the parish of
Grant, where exhibits of all farm and
agricultural products may be shown
each year, to educate the members and
attendants in better methods of farm
ing and agriculture, and to bring about
cooperation among the members in all
matters relating to their welfare, and to
disseminate among the members infor-
nation along agricultural lines, OPP
erative marketing and such life.
ARTICLE THREE.
The following incorporators shall be
the officers of this company until the
December meeting of the members in
1917: j. M. Lang, President; John F.
Fletcher, vice-presideht; Mark Wom-
ack, secretary; d. H. Wallace. treas
urer; and the said officers and the fol-
lowing incorporators: Mrs. Zelma Bum
gardner, c. c. Wilson, Mrs. D. H.
Wallace, Mrs. G. d. Smith, Miss Lille
McMills, Miss H. Stoessel. M. E. Ted
die, ]. A. Swor, B. D. Fletcher and
]. w. Bryant shall compose the first
Board of Directors to serve until the
Decemper meeting in 1917, with Mrs.
Bumgardner, aforesaid, as assistant
secretary.
ARTICLE FOUR.
The corporate powers of this corpo-
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by the said Board of Directors who
shall have full authority in the prem
ises, and who shall make all rules and
regulations by which its corporate af-
fairs shall be conducted and managed
and shall fix the duties and the salaries
of each. officer of the company as their
judgment directs.
The members of the corporation shall
meet in the Verda high school building
a.. Verda, Grant parish, Louisiana, or
at such other place as the Board of
Directors may designate on the first
Saturday of December of each year and
elect Board of Directors for the en-
suing year, which board, when so Sc
lected, shall Immediately choose their
officers from among the members of
the corporation, and it shall not be
necessary to choose all officers from the
directors, and the officials so chosen
shall enter upon the discharge of their
duties.
ARTICLE FIVE.
There shall be no certificates of stock
in this corporation, and in lieu of stock
each member shall pay tie sum of two
dollars and half per annum as men,
bership fee, collectible by the treasurer,
which membership fee may be decreased
after the year 1917, if the directors see
fit to do so. No incorporation, nor any
person hereafter becoming a member
Of this association, snail ever be held
liable for any sum in excess of his men,
bership dues. The wife of any men,
Der in good standing shall become q
member without payment Of dues.
ARTICLE SIX.
No entrance fee to see the exhibits
of the association at its annual fair
shall ever be charged.
ARTICLE SEVEN.
The Board of Directors shall hold
monthly meetings, on the first Satur-
days of each month at the Verda high
school building at Verda, Louisiana, OF