The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1920-09-04
Amendment to Charter
Bank Of COlfax,
Louisiana

Louisiana
State of Louisiana,
Parish of Grant.
Before me, j. B. Roberts Notary
Public duly commissioned, sworn and
qualified in and for the Parish of Grant,
Louisiana, personally came and appear
ed, on this the 18th day of Aug. 1920.
E. B. Gray and T. H. McNeely, who.|
declared unto me Notary, in the pres
ence of the undersigned two compe-
tent witnesses that they were chair
man secretary, respectively, of the
meeting of the stockholders OF the
Bank of Colfax. convened and held ac-
cording to law and the charter of the
said bank, at Colfax, Louisiana, on the
18th day of August. 1920. at the domi-
Gle of the said banking corporation,
and that the capital stock of the said
bank at the time of the said meeting
was Thirty Thousand Dollars. and that
there was present at said meeting
either in person or by proxy stock
holders owning Twenty Two Thousand
and Seven Hundred Dollars ($22, 700. 00)
of the said capital stock; that the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted at the
said stockholders meeting:
Be it resolved by the stockholders of
the Bank of Colfax now in session at
it's banking house at Colfax, Louisiana.
that Article l of the charter of the
Bank of Colfax be amended SO as to
read as follows:
/ ARTICLE1.
The name or title of this corporation
shall be BANK OF COLFAX Its domi-
Gle and place of doing banking BUSH
ness shall be in the Town of Colfax,
| Parish of Grant, State of Louisiana,
and its capital stock shall be and il
hereby fixed at Seventy-Five Thous
and Dollars divided into $50 shares O
lone hundred dollars each, the appear
. ers herein being stockholders. and tn
place of residence and the number q
shares and amounts held by each o
them respectively being set forth op
posite the signature of each of them
which amounts of said shares are to b
paid for in cash as called for by the boar
of directors. Said Board Of Director
Is hereby empowered and directedst
locate branch banks in the Parish Q
. Grant according to law. That q tots
227 shares out of total of three hur
dred shares of the capital stock, as ez
isting on the adoption of the sal
: amendment of Article of the charter
voted in favor of the said resolutio
and by subsequent resolution adopte
by the same vote. the said appearel
were authorized to appear before
Notary Public of the Parish of Grar
= and execute, according to law, tt
!. said amendment of Article l of Il
banks charter increasing the capt.
stock of the bank from thirty thousar
II dollars to seventy-five thousand dolla
g and empowering its board of directo
v to establish and locate branch banks
in the Parish of Grant, according
y law.
In testimony whereof, the said E. ]
y GRAY chairman of the stockholde
3 meeting and the said T. Hunter M
h Nicely secretary of the stockholde
81 meeting attach hereto certified col
r. of the resolutions above referred
and have executed this certificate
amendment of the charter of the Bal
Is of Colfax at my notarial Office in t
E. Town of Colfax, Grsnt Parish Loui
a ana. on this the 18th day of Angus
If 1920, in my presence and that Of 7
# two undersigned competent witness'
~ E. B. GRAY,
ar Chairman Stockholders Meeting.
In T. H. McNEELY,
rs Secretary Stockholders Meeting.
! j. B. ROBERTS.
FL Notary Public.
- Witnesses:
us R. C. BENNETT,
ee NJ. G. MCKNIGHT. tse
1t, State of Louisiana,
~. Parish of Grant,
hereby certify that the within 9
foregoing to be true and correct co
of the Amendment of the Bank of {
:. fax, Colfax, Louisiana, as now filed
It this Office under Register No. $50
g e recorded in Book of Charters at p'
IL 102 ct seq on the LIST day of Septem
q q A. d. 1920.
nd Witness my hand and official seal
r. r. Office at Colfax, Louisiana, this the
ne day of September A. d. 1920.