The herald., 1922-04-13
OF CLAIBORNE CENTRAL
OIL COMPANY. INCORPORATED

United States of America, State of Louis
lana, Parish of Orleans Be it known, that
on this ninth day of the month of March,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand.
nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the
Independence Of the United States of
America, the one hundred and forty
seventh, before me, Francis P. Burns, a
notary public. duly commissioned and
qualified in and for the Parish Of Or
leans, therein residing, and in the pres
ence of the witnesses hereinafter named
and undersigned, personally came and
appeared the several persons whose names
are hereunto subscribed, who declared
that, availing themselves of the laws of
this state relative to the organization of
corporations, they have covenanted and
agreed, and do by these presents coven-
themselves, as well as such persons as
may hereafter join or become associated
with them, into corporation and body
polite in law, for the objects ana pur-
poses and under the agreements and stip-
ulations, to-wit:
ARTICLE THE name and title of this
corporations shall be Claiborne Central
Oil Company, Incorporated, and under
its corporate name it shall enjoy success
sion for the full term and period of nine
ty-nlne years from and after date here
of and shall have power and authority
to contract, sue and be sued; to accept
and receive mortgages, pledges or other
hypOthecations; to make and use a cor
alter at pleasure; to purchase, receive,
lease, hold, or otherwise acquire and con-
vey as well as mortgage and hypothecate
under Its corporate name, property both
real and personal and mixed; to borrow
money and make and issue bonds and
other evidences of debt, and to secure the
same by mortgage and otherwise; to hold
stock in other corporations; to acquire,
stock; to join or consolidate with and
enter into agreements and cooperative
relations not in contravention of law, with
any person or persons, firms. associations.
or corporations, governmental, municipal
or otherwise, in and about the carrying on
and accomplishment of all or any of the
purposes of the company, to carry out
all of the objects and purposes herein
after set out; to name and appoint such
managers and directors. officers and
agents as the interest and convenience of
said corporation may require; and to
make and establish, as well as alter and
amend at pleasure, such bylaws. rules
and regulations for the management and
regulation of the affairs of the corpora
ton as may be necessary, proper or con-
venient.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile Of this cor
poration shall be ip the Parish Of Orleans,
State of Louisiana, and all citations or
other legal process shall be served upon
any of the officers of the corporation
ARTICLE III-The purposes for which
this corporation is formed are: AS prin-
State, in any other states, territories and
possessions of the United States and in
rectly;
mortgage, franchise. concession, appro-
prlation, discovery, location, grant, bond
option, device, conveyance agreement
importation or otherwise, to manufacture
produce, prepare, work, mine, bore, pros
pect, pump, raise, separate, refine, CEN
trate, reduce, distill, convert, treat, ex-
plot patent develop operate, assay, es-
tablish, maintain, equip, hire and to hold
own, possess, enjoy, sell, distribute, ex-
port or otherwise dispose of and generally
to handle and deal in any and every form
OF petroleum, gasses and other hydro
carbons, minerals. bitumens, coal de-
posts, and mines, oil wells, gas wells,
and mining, oil and gas lands. rights and
properties of every description whatso-
ever, together with any ano all by-pro-
ducts thereof, and any and every material
and thing in the manufacture prepara-
ton or use of which any of the forego-
ing is used.
For its own purposes, but not as a
public service corporation, to acquire
own, lease, erect, construct, charter build
occupy: enlarge, sink, improve, establish,
mote and control factories mills and re-
hneries, rigs, drilling machines and
plants. Well castings, bitches, fumes, pipes
pipe lines, tanks, tank lines, reservoirs
"AchOusto' StOTdkc pumping STA
tons, water works, electric plants, power
plants, railway and tramway lines, steam
ships; tankers, barges, lighters and other
vessels OF any and every class dry docks,
wharves, docks, elevators, terminal pro-
perties and facilities, harbors. ferries,
bridges. waterways and rights and canals.
ana all other structures and improve
ments, necessary or convenient for the
production, manufacture, storage, sale
and distribution of products, and of any
goods, wares and merchandise or COM
modities dealt in by the corporation. and
10 purchase, lease or otherwise acquire
and to hold, own, improve, exploit, mort
gage, sell. exchange, convey. or otherwise
dispose Of the full property or other
rights, whether real, personal or mixed,
whatsoever and wheresoever located,
necessary or convenient in connection
with its business, in the State of Louis
lana or in any other states, territories or
FEDERAL districts of the United States of
America and In foreign countries.
TO issue stocks, bonds and other obli-
cations in payment for property purchased
or acquired by it for any other object in
and about its business; to purchase or
otherwise acquire, to guarantee endorse
become surety for, hold, sell, assign.
transfer, mortgage, pledge, hypothecate
or otherwise dispose of shares Of the capt.
tai stock, bonds and all other evidences
OF indebtedness and securities of any other
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