The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-03-24
CHARTER
The Grant Parish Fair Association,
Incorporated.
STATE OF LOUISIANA !
Parish of Grant (

puDuC, July commissioner, 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: j. M. Lang, Mrs. Zelma Bum
gardner, M. E. Teddlie. d. H. Wallace,
G. c. Wilson, Mrs. D. H. Wallace, G..
D. Smith, j. A. Patton, VIM. Bowen,
J. =. 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, COOP
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; Johrl F.
Fletcher, vice-president; Mark WON
ack, secretary; d. H. Wallace, treas
urer; and the said officers and tie fol-
lowing incorporators: Mrs. Zeltna Bum
gardner, C. c. Wilson, MRS.. d. H. !
Wallace, Mrs. G.. D. Smith, Miss Lille
McMills, Miss H. Stoessel, ME-. Ted |
die, j. A. Swor, B. d. Fletcher and !
J. w. Bryant shall compose, che first
Board of Directors to serve anti the |
Decemper meeting in 1917, with Mrs. !
Bumgardner, aforesaid, as assistant |
secretary.
ARTICLE FOUR.
The corporate powers of this corpo- |
ration shall be vested in and exercised
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
at 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
ected, 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
luties.
ARTICLE FIVE.
There shall be no certificates of stock
n this corporation, and in lieu of stock
Zach member shall pay tie sum of two
dollars and half per annum as mem
,ership fee, collectible by the treasurer,
which membership fee may be decreased
lfter the year 1917. if the directors see
it to do so. No incorporation, nor any
'erson hereafter becoming q member
# this association, shall ever be held
liable for any sum in excess of his MEM
'ership dues. The wife of any mem
'er in good standing shall become
member without payment of dues.
ARTICLE SIX.
No entrance fee to see the exhibits
4 the association at it's annual fair !
hall ever be charged. /.
ARTICLE SEVEN. L
The Board of Directors shall hold
monthly meetings, on the first Satur-
lays of each month at the Verda high !
chrol hsrsldinnv - Ho~l~