The herald., 1922-04-27
CHARTER OF CLAIBORNE CENTRAL
OIL COMPANY, INCORPORATED

United States OF America, state Oh LOUIS
lana, Parish of Orleans, Be it known, that
Oh 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 z. 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 or
| corporations, they have coyenanted and
| agreed, and do by these presents coven-
| ant, agree, bind, form and constitute
| themselves, as we'll as such persons as
| may hereafter join or become associated
| with them, into corporation and body
polite in law, for the objects and pur-
poses and under the agreements and slp-
ulations, to-wit:
| ARTICLE THE name and title of this
| corpOratiou shall be "Claiborne-Cen
| Oil Company, Incorporated, and under
| its corporate name it shall enjoy success
| sion for the full term and period OF nine
| ty-nine 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 otheI
| nypOthecations; to make and use a cor
porate seal and the same to break OIL
| lease, hold, or otherwise acquire and con-
vey as well as mortgage and hypothecate
under its corporate name, property bott
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
hold and reissue shares of its capita
| 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, munlclpa
or otherwise, in and about the carrying Oh
and accomplishment of all or any OF the
purposes of the company, to carry ou
all of the objects and purposes herein
after set out; to name and appoint sucl
managers and directors. officers and
agents as the interest and convenience o.
said corporation may require; and t
make and establish, as well as alter ant
amend at pleasure, such bylaws. RUE
| and regulations for the management ant
regulation of the affairs of the corpora
tion as may be necessary, proper or con
yenient.
ARTICLE 1.-THE domicile of this cor
poratiOn Shall be in the Parish of Orleans
State of Louisiana, and all citations o
other legal process shall be served upoI
any of the officers of the corporation.
ARTICLE III-The purposes for whicl
this corporation is formed are: AS prin
cipal, agent, broker or otherwise in tn
State, in any other states, territories ant
possessions of the United States and II
foreign countries, both directly and indi
rectly;
To acquire by purchase, lease, license
mortgage, franchise, concession, appro
priation, discovery, location, grant, bond
option, device, conveyance agreement
Importation or otherwise, to manuiactu-'
produce, prepare, work, mine, bore, pros
pect, pump, raise, separate, refine, cen
trate reduce, distill, convert, treat, ex
) ploit patent develop operate, assay, es
tablish, maintain, equip, hire and to hol'
, own, possess, enjoy, sell, distribute, ex
r port or otherwise dispose of and generall!
to handle and deal in any and every form
of petroleum, gasses and other hydro
carbOns, minerals, bitumens, coal de
posits, and mines, oil wells, gas wells
and mining, oil and gas lands, rights ant
properties of every description whatso
ever, together with any and all by-pro
ducts thereof, and any and every materia
/, and thing in the manufacture, prepara
, tion or use of which any of the forego
ing is used.
} For its own purposes, but not as
public service corporation, to acquire
] own, lease erect, construct, charter build
occupy, enlarge, sink, improve, establish
maintain and operate or otherwise pro
: mote and control factories mills and re
5 fneries, rigs, drilling machines an,
= plants, we'll castings, bitches, fumes, pipes
pipe lines, tanks, tank lines, reservoirs
d warehouses, storage plants, pumping sta
= tions, water works, electric plants, powe
plants, railway and tramway lines, steam
ships tankers, barges, lighters and othe
e vessels of any and every class, dry docks
wharves, docks, elevators, terminal pro
perties and facilities, harbors, ferries
. bridges, waterways and rights and canals
and all other structures and improve
5 ments necessary or convenient for tn
. production, manufacture, storage, sal
and distribution of products, and of an
goods, wares and merchandise or com
. modities dealt in by the corporation, an
| to purchase, lease or otherwise acquir
and to hold own, improve, exploit, mort
' gage, sell, exchange, convey or otherwis
' dispose of the full property or othe
' rights, whether real, personal or mixed
z whatsoever and wheresoevsr located
2 necessary or convenient in connectio
with its business in the State of Louis
l. lana or in any other states, territories Q
: FEDERAL districts of the United States {
4 America and in foreign countries.
To issue stocks, bonds and other obi
cations in payment for property purchase
or acquired by ii for any other object
and about its business; to purchase {
otherwise acquire to guarantee, endors
:. become surety for, hold, sell, assigl
transfer, mortgage, pledge, hypotheca'
or otherwise dispose of shares Of the cap
n tai stock, bonds and all other evidenc'
l. Of Indebtedness and securities Of any oth'
le corporation or corporations or associ
tions of this state or of any other stat