Natchitoches union. [volume] ([Natchitoches, La.]) 1859-1864, 1862-02-27
Perseverance Fire CouIpaaiy y
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
PARISH or NArCH1rocHEs.

Recorder for the Parish Natchitoches
State of Louisiana, personally cam
and appeared Christopher L Walmsley
Felix Metoyer, c. Chaplin Jr, Johl
Hughes, VIM. G, Melvin, Peter veule
man, LOUIS Duplex, and A Fl. Piersol
all residents Of the Parish of Natehito
ches, duly authorized and empowered
to represent the Perseverance Fire
Company No |, Of the Town of Match
itoches. in having passed charter D.
Incorporation, of said Company, by a
resolution of the Company. passed
Januarv Goth 1862. And the said ap
lpearers declared, that they do consti
tute and form themselves into Cor
peration, so far as the same reisstas
and appertains the general 0 jeet Of a
Fire Department, under the name and
style Of " Perseverance, Fire Company
No Il Of the Town of Natchitoehes'
with its domicil in said Town, and
that this act of Incorporation, shall in.
clude the said appearers with all other
present members of the said company
and their Successors. That they and
their successors shall have power and
authority to make and use a corporate
| seal, to contract, sue and be sued in
their corporate name before any court
or Judge i'll any manner of suits, mat
ters and demands whatsoever, whether
the same arise out of any rule or by-
laws already adopted for their govern
nlent, or otherwise, and all and every
matter and thing therein to do, in as
FULL e(ectual manner, as any other
person o. pc sons, or corporations
within this State may or can do, and
they are thereby authorized to make
rules, bylaws, and ordinances, to levy
and collect fines and dues, and to do
all other things needful for their good
government, and usefulness as a Fire
Company, not rcpugnant to the Com
stitutien and Laws of the Confederate
States and of this States, or to the
general object of this corporation as "a
Fire, Company. To have power eand
authority, and be competent In law to
hold, receive, purchase, convey and
cucumber under their corporate name,
both real and personal. To
name and appoint such managers, di-
rcctors and officers as their interst or
may require. To make
and establish such bylaws for the pro-
per management ana regulation of tho
aft ils Of the Ourpotatidhf as ] may he
necessary and proper. fuv5rg1 |
The President OF, the Company shall
be the officer on whom citation may be |
served in all suits or demands against |
this Cooperation. The stock of the |
Company consists Of the Fire Appa-
ratus now in hand The election of
all officers representing the Company
shall be conducted in the mode pre-
scribed by the bylaws Of the Com
oany. The mode of liquidation of the
affairs of the Corporation at the termi-
nation of the Charter, shall be aocor-
ling to the general law Of the country
governing the liquidation Of Corpora.
ions. * a a5 sfft aah aa..
In all acts Of alienation, acquisition,
,r encumbrance, the Corporation shall
,e represented and bound by the sig
nature of the President alone to such
lets. of@ # a 8 E. fa
Thus done and passed at my Office,
n the parish of Natchitoches, n pres
nee of James NJ D. Tucker and Ben.
amin j. Bouis, witnesses of lawful
ge and doiriiciliated III said parish,
vho have signed these presents with
he said parties and me the said Re-
order aud Notary, on this fifteenth
lay Of February, in the year of our
,ord, One Thousand Eight Hundred
md sixty-two.,.as s. .5a4s.. sa
: [Attest] sHa szm (Signed) ae
!. NJ B. Tucker, @, L. .Walmsley,
B. J. Botiis. -z +. Metoyer, +
s 2l'# = 7a WI G, Chaplin, Jr., /
w. U Melvin, |,
Louis Duplex, Il
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