The Colfax chronicle., 1918-03-30
STATE OF LOUISIANA, I
Parish of Grant

the STOCKHOLDERS or the COlfax HARD
wood Lumber Co., Incorporated, which
resolution is attached to and made a
part hereof, same having been passed
on the 18th day of March, 1918, the
charter of the said Colfax Hardwood
Lumber Co., Inc, is hereby amended
as follows:
Article / of the Charter is amended
so as to read as follows:
ARTICLE /.
The name and style of the corpora
ton hereby formed is declared to be
SHERRILL HARDWOOD LUMBER
COMPANY, INC, and its domiciIe is
hereby fixed and established in the vii
lage of Merryville, Parish of Beaure-
gard, State of Louisiana, where by said
name it shall have and enjoy corporate
succession for a period of ninety-nine
years from and after the date hereof,
unless sooner dissolved by law or in the
manner hereinafter stipulated.
Article III of the charter is amended
so as to read as follows:
ARTICLE Ill.
The objects and purposes for which
this corporation is organized are to
conduct general wholesale and retail
lumber business, buying and selling
lumber on commission basis, whole
sale and retail and as jobbers, and the
manufacture and sale OF timber pro-
duets acquired or manufactured in con-
nection herewith, which business is to
be conducted at Merryville and at such
other place or places as the corporation
may determine; to establish at said
places plants for the manufacture of
lumber and timber products; to manu-
facture, buy and sell timber land and
lands, lumber, barrels staves, and all.
other timber products of any nature
and kind whatsoever, as the corpora
ton shall choose; to have and own all
the, necessary. aappVrtenapces. appli-y
ances, stock, wagons, houses, Offices,
and all necessary machinery, tools,
and all other things what
soever that may be necessary in the
conduct of said business; to operate in
connection with said manufacturing
plant and timber land and lands pur-
chases made by it or acquired, commits
saries, and to conduct a general mer-
camille business In connection Herewith,
with power to buy, own and sell goods,
wares and merchandise of every kind
and to buy, lease, hold,
develop and sell timber, timber lands
and lands; to build, construct, own,
maintain and operate roads and road.
ways and railroad and steamboat lines
and other modes and means of con-
veyance, to be used in connection with
its saw mill and other plants, and with
said timber, timber lands, lumber and
timber products; to own, improve,
lease, sell and operate farms and farm
ing lands and to conduct in connection
Herewith general planting business,
and to farm or have farmed in sucn
way and manner as the corporation
sees fit; also to do general contract
ing business, to build ships, houses and
other structures under such contracts
as the corporation may see fit and
proper to enter into"
Article v of the Charter is amended
so as to read as follows:
ARTICLE v.
The capital stock Of this corporation
is hereby fixed at the sum of two hum
1red thousand dollars $500, ,000) to be
divided into two thousand shares of one
hundred dollars each, par value, pro-
vided that this corporation may be-
come going concern and begin to
transact business as soon as one hun
ired thousand dollars of the capital
stock shall be subscribed for and Iully
pai0 in, in the manner hereinafter |
stipulated. No stock shall be issued |
FOR less than par and none of it shall
De paid for except in cash or property |
DR. valuable services rendered said cor
ooration, and no certificate of stock |
shall be issued until the same shall have |
been fully paid for in the foregoing |
manner. The capital stock of this |
may be further increased |
70 five hundred thousand dollars.
Article vi of the Charter is amended
Is follows:
ARTICLE VI.
Article vi of the Charter is amended
70 as to make the Board of Directors |
,onsits of three, instead of five stock |
holders. and otherwise to remain as !
written in the original charter. The |
original charter of the corporation is |
lied under Mortgage File 27il and re-
corded in Book K of the Mortgage re-
lords of Grant parish, at Colfax, La,
pages 255 ct seq. H. v. Sheriff. sub
'crioes to five hundred shares of the |
capital stock as increased for himself, |
same number by A. S. Sheriff., and |
same number for c. H. Sheriff., de-
:laring that each has fully paid for the |
full subscription so made.
Thus done, read and signed at Colfax,
louisiana. on this the 26th day of
March, A. d. 1918, in the presence of |
he undersigned two competent wit
iesses- A. s. ShEkRILL,
For Five Hundred Shares.
c. H. SHERRILL.
For Five Hundred Shares.
H. V. SHERRILL,
For Five Hundred Shares.