The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-04-19
CHARTER
STATE OF LOUISIANA.


BEFORE ME-, R. A. Hawthorne a
Notary Public in and for the State and
Parish above written, personally came
and appeared the subscribers hereunto,
j. F. Mathis, whose post office address
is Boyce. La, and v. G. Philips, whose
post Office address is Provencal, La,
the said V. G. Philips also representing
one, H. A. Lurton, whose post office
, address is Pensacola, Escambia County,
Florida, by power of attorney hereto
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 letters
patent incorporating themselves, their
associates, successors or assigns in ac-
cordance with the laws of the State of
Louisiana and upon and under the fol-
lowing proposed Charter, to-wit:
The name of the corporation shall be
PROVINCIAL TURPENTINE COM
PANY, INC, and its principal llace of
business and domicile shall be at Prov
cncal, Natchitoches Parish, La. 1t
shall have the power to establish such
other places of business in said state or
elsewhere as It's Board of Directors or
Stockholders may determine.
2.
The corporation is organized for q
period of ninety-nine, (ss) years.
The amount of capital stock hereby
authorized shall be thirty thousand dol
lars $3.50, 100000 divided into three hum
dred 5000 shares Of one hundred dol
lars (S100.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 inn
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 its busi-
tlessesj, to own, operate, lease and sell
sawmills, tram.roads, steamboats,.
barges, or other means OF transporta-
tion, Except as common carriersj) to-
mortgage or pledge the properties of
the corporation, to make use of a COM
mon seal and alter the same at pleas
urs, to appoint such officers, agents
and employees as the aforesaid busi-
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.
B s.Ms.s
The business Of the corporation shall
be conducted by the following officers,
viz: President, Vice. President and
a SeCtetary.Trsasurer, and 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 20 fixed. three
members shall constitute full board.
The Directors shall be elected annually
by the stockholders at a 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.
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 domiclle 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 OF Rauidate It's business at a
stockholders meeting upon two.thirds
vote of the stockholders present. Fif-
teen DAYS written notice OF such meet
ifl9 toTetter with statement Of the OBJ
jects and purposes thereof shall be
given IN pess9la, a.or or Ss registered man
In case Of liquidation, the Board Of d.
rectors shall appoint hquidator
Citation and other legal process shall
be served on the President Of the cor
poration or In his absence on the next
ranking officer.
No stockholder shall ever be held
liable OF responsible for the contra go
and faults OF this corporation IN anv
further sum than the unpaid kalanoe Of
the stock for which he has subscribed:
nor shall any more iafermaliry in or
ganiZing tRts corporation have the
effect Of rendering This charter nun and
void 0g IN exposing the stockholders to
any liability other than as above pro.
Each. of the incorporstors hereto SUBJ
scribe to the capital stock for one hum
dred shares (10U each Of par value of
one hundred dollars (S10O.00,) the ag-
gregate being thirty thousand dollars
($30, 000.00;) the same this date being
| paid in full by property in equal indivi-
sion by the incorporators, itemized, de-
scribed and appraised by the Board of
Directors and transferred TO this Cor
poration as shown by deeds and acts
/ annexed hereto and made part of this
act Of Incorporation as provided by law.
Certificates Of the stock as herein